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[Biotic Sage]

JeffZero wrote...

And the not being contacted appears to be as recently as the 24th, which is weeks past Ms. Livingstone announcing voice acting had been completed. By now Mr. Beattie is likely tired of telling people he doesn't know anything.

I find that extremely hard to believe.  Unless he was insufferable to work with, why wouldn't they have contacted him?  It just doesn't make any sense.

[JeffZero]

Aye, cap'n, it didnae make a nary lick o' sense.

[MACharlie1]

People, what this all boils down to is $$$.

Mordin's new VA is probably doing double-duty for another character. It's not some great conspiracy or there was some bad blood with Beattie. It was just business.

[Volus Warlord]

MACharlie1 wrote...

People, what this all boils down to is $$$.

Mordin's new VA is probably doing double-duty for another character. It's not some great conspiracy or there was some bad blood with Beattie. It was just business.

Why don't you just stfu and let me shout out my bizzare conspiracy theory?

[JeffZero]

MACharlie1 wrote...

People, what this all boils down to is $$$.

Mordin's new VA is probably doing double-duty for another character. It's not some great conspiracy or there was some bad blood with Beattie. It was just business.

Get your sense-making outta here. You're spoiling our tin hats.

[Bluko]

MACharlie1 wrote...

People, what this all boils down to is $$$.

Mordin's new VA is probably doing double-duty for another character. It's not some great conspiracy or there was some bad blood with Beattie. It was just business.

So I should be happy they're replacing VAs to save money?

Don't know about you but Beattie is definitely worth whatever money they saved. Unless he has some sort of crazy fee. I suppose that could be the case, but I can't imagine him being anymore expensive then Lance Henriksen or Martin Sheen. Both of which characters I assume won't have more then a few minutes of dialog in ME3. I guess they figure if they get someone who sounds like Beattie no one will care. Bad idea as I'm quite sure several review sites will if they notice.

I honestly think Bioware has a raffle machine where they pick something every month as means to anger the fanbase. Probably trying to get as many Dark Side Points as possible for nefarious purpose.

[MACharlie1]

Bluko wrote...

MACharlie1 wrote...

People, what this all boils down to is $$$.

Mordin's new VA is probably doing double-duty for another character. It's not some great conspiracy or there was some bad blood with Beattie. It was just business.

So I should be happy they're replacing VAs to save money?

Don't know about you but Beattie is definitely worth whatever money they saved. Unless he has some sort of crazy fee. I suppose that could be the case, but I can't imagine him being anymore expensive then Lance Henriksen or Martin Sheen. Both of which characters I assume won't have more then a few minutes of dialog in ME3. I guess they figure if they get someone who sounds like Beattie no one will care. Bad idea as I'm quite sure several review sites will if they notice.

I honestly think Bioware has a raffle machine where they pick something every month as means to anger the fanbase. Probably trying to get as many Dark Side Points as possible for nefarious purpose.

...didn't say that. I'm saying that it was just business. And business sometimes sucks, like in this case. Nobody should be happy about this. Not you. Not me. Not even the ones who made the decision but I doubt they care so that point is pretty moot. 

[Craynigments]

"Michael Beattie has likely been replaced as Mordins VA in ME3..."

ಠ_ಠ ...

GOSH DANGIT!

[Cosmochyck]

Not. Cool.

[jackyboy666]

Another update from Michael. Bioware, what the hell are you doing!? Get on it now!!

Michael Beattie michael@michaelbeattievo.com
8:35 PM (3 hours ago)

to me
Hi Jack,

Thanks so much for your kind words and kudo's.

I totally had a blast bringing Mordin to life for Mass Effect 2.
He is a challenging and fun character to play and has huge potential for growth
in subsequent stories........IMHO.......;o)

I would love to reprise my role in Mass Effect 3 -but you are correct, in that
as of this writing I have not recorded any dialogue for ME3, nor do I have a contract to do so.

However, I have become aware of a huge groundswell of gamer/fan support on the bioware social forums;
petitions to bring me back as Mordin, etc, etc....so .......here's hoping the fans will be successful!

Either way, I remain grateful for the opportunity I had to voice such a fun, quirky alien professor dude!

Future roles? You can hear more of my work in Universal's upcoming feature film: Dr. Seuss's: The Lorax -coming in March 2012.
I play the 'skinny marketing guy' - very different form Mordin, but also a lot of fun!


Kind regards,

[Liec]

We don't know if they've rehired *everyone* else, do we? I mean, Jacob or Grunt or other smaller roles could have new voices as well, maybe :/

[Trekfanboy]

I don't know the details behind this decision or contract talks, but I hope that BioWare and EA would NEVER choose to replace an established voice actor purely because it's "cheaper" to hire someone else (unless, of course, the original voice actor isn't being realistic about pay and is demanding too much).

Here in the US women generally get paid less than men so let's just replace all the male voice actors with women:

(Liara coughs and makes her voice deep) "I'm commander Shepard and this is my favorite voice actor replacement on the Citadel."

[SynheKatze]

Liec wrote...

We don't know if they've rehired *everyone* else, do we? I mean, Jacob or Grunt or other smaller roles could have new voices as well, maybe :/

Didn't the guy that voiced Wrex voice Grunt too? So it's a given Grunt will have his VA back. Don't know sh!t about Jacob, tho, but people wouldn't rage about him since he's not that popular.

[SnakeStrike8]

SynheKatze wrote...

Liec wrote...

We don't know if they've rehired *everyone* else, do we? I mean, Jacob or Grunt or other smaller roles could have new voices as well, maybe :/

Didn't the guy that voiced Wrex voice Grunt too? So it's a given Grunt will have his VA back. Don't know sh!t about Jacob, tho, but people wouldn't rage about him since he's not that popular.

No. Wrex was voiced by Steve Barr. Grunt's voiced by Steve Blum.
Different mates!

[chance52]

Arcian wrote...

There's something he's not telling us. I refuse to believe (even though it is perfectly possible) that BioWare has gone full retard and decided to not rehire M.B when they've rehired EVERYONE ELSE, in addition to the character being vastly popular.

The way I see it, the only logical reason for all this is that he made a request they had to refuse, or that they made an offer he had to refuse, or that he's trying to cash in on the character's popularity and our anticipation for his return, or he's actually been hired a long time ago but he's intentionally misleading and sweating us as some kind of sinister practical joke that BW's in on to create buzz, considering that Mordin one of ME2's most memorable elements and likely one that a casual fan is likely to remember and look back at with fond memories.

F**k. I just want some goddamn answers from someone.

I don't know if this is the case here but I remember an interview with Billy West (Futurama) where he was talking about voice over work. He spoke about often being cast for multiple roles in a single movie or show but all it takes is one big name like Eddie Murphy or John Travolta to come in and shrink the VO budget down considerably.  I remember him saying that whenever he gets bigger movies with a big star in it his pay check is always on the smaller side no matter how many roles he has because one person with a famous name comes in to just do their normal voice. 

Maybe something like that happened here and the Mass Effect team simply ran out of money for VO work and they couldn't get their budget expanded so they had to pay someone else to pull double duty.  I'm sure Mass Effect 3 had a good sized budget to start with but it's not like a company will dump unlimited funds into a single project.

Modifié par chance52, 31 décembre 2011 - 10:53 .

[TheRealJayDee]

jreezy wrote...

Cosmochyck wrote...

Not. Cool.

Indeed, if it turns out to be true in the end.

 bump

[Georilla]

Maybe it means that Mordin will get killed off early in the game?

[Random citizen]

Time for Bioware to make a statement.
The fans are getting restless!

[Ice Cold J]

jackyboy666 wrote...

Another update from Michael. Bioware, what the hell are you doing!? Get on it now!!

Michael Beattie michael@michaelbeattievo.com
8:35 PM (3 hours ago)

to me
Hi Jack,

Thanks so much for your kind words and kudo's.

I totally had a blast bringing Mordin to life for Mass Effect 2.
He is a challenging and fun character to play and has huge potential for growth
in subsequent stories........IMHO.......;o)

I would love to reprise my role in Mass Effect 3 -but you are correct, in that
as of this writing I have not recorded any dialogue for ME3, nor do I have a contract to do so.

However, I have become aware of a huge groundswell of gamer/fan support on the bioware social forums;
petitions to bring me back as Mordin, etc, etc....so .......here's hoping the fans will be successful!

Either way, I remain grateful for the opportunity I had to voice such a fun, quirky alien professor dude!

Future roles? You can hear more of my work in Universal's upcoming feature film: Dr. Seuss's: The Lorax -coming in March 2012.
I play the 'skinny marketing guy' - very different form Mordin, but also a lot of fun!


Kind regards,

I would sincerely hope that Bioware and EA reward it's fanbase and a talented/dedicated actor and bring Mr. Beattie back. I'm sure the game is gonna rock, but the knowledge alone that the actor playing Mordin, no matter how well he imitates him, is not Michael, will immediately draw me out of the game, if even for those several minutes Mordin is featured in the game.

[Baryonic_Member]

Just two months left for release. The window for hiring him and recording his dialogue is shrinking, if not gone already. too bad

[swenson]

What this probably means is that Mordin won't have a very big role in ME3. Which saddens me greatly, I was hoping for another song.

[implodinggoat]

Well this sucks. Mordin's lines were some of the best parts of Mass Effect 2.