People are probably waiting for the game to drop in price. Ubisoft themselves set up the expectation that their games are frequently discounted, and Kingdom Battle itself often goes on sale for less than $20.
Why buy the game now and pay $60, when it will be discounted to half price (or less) in less than six months? In fact, the game is currently discounted to $40 at a number of retailers.
"Monster Hunter 6" is almost certainly already in the works. After all, it was one of the titles featured in that ransomware leak Capcom had a while ago (the same leak that told us Rise and Stories 2 were coming to PC, and told us of the existence of stuff like Dragon's Dogma 2 and Resident Evil 4 VR).
Bayonetta is not a "half a billion dollar" franchise. I don't know where Helena is getting that figure, but all the releases of Bayonetta 1 and 2 combined probably didn't generate $200 million in revenue.
If she's a member of SAG-AFTRA, then the rates would be hourly. For "Interactive" work (which I believe video game VA would fall under), she would expect to be getting $956.75 for a "4-hour session (up to 3 voices)".
She previously stated in an interview that she did four such sessions for Bayonetta 1, totaling 16 hours of voice work. If she was expected to do similar hours for Bayonetta 3, then $4000 would be right in line with standard pay (again, assuming she's a guild member).
She's got everyone focused on the $4000 offer, while omitting some key information that would better give us context. And unfortunately, her actions (claiming she is Bayonetta, claiming her replacement "betrayed" her, and trying to invoke "mob justice" in the form of a boycott based on her story alone) makes me suspect that such omissions are purposeful.
I'm excited for this, if only because there will be a big-budget alternative to WWE's "simulation" style wrestling games. I don't know much about AEW, but I'm all in if they can deliver a wrestling game similar to the style of the older wrestling games (No Mercy, Here Comes the Pain, etc.).
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