The video game voice actors strike is entering its fifth month, and Riot Games is making "temporary changes" to how it handles voices for in-game Leage of Legends skins. These changes come months after SAG-AFTRA called for Formosa Interactive, the popular MOBA's voiceover studio, to be struck back in September.
Since League's PC version is a struck title, union actors aren't allowed to record lines for it while the strike is active. As such, skins for champions with actors based in the United States will use already-recorded "base voiceovers (VO)" rather than lines done by different actors. When the strike ends, the studio will update those affected skins with new lines from their original actors "as soon as scheduling and availability will allow."
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