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Post by Diablo. on Oct 11, 2011 3:16:37 GMT -5
If people are willing to pay for micros, should we accept commissions or do them for free regardless? I've always found it a bit of a moral greyzone, I'm just wondering what the general concensus is here. I do see both sides of the argument, in terms of if both sides are wanting, where is the problem, however is drawing pixels something worth money, and does it effect any "integrity" the micro community has?
So yes, discuss people.
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Post by Next Generation on Oct 11, 2011 3:37:05 GMT -5
If people want to actually pay for micros lol let them
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Post by TC on Oct 11, 2011 5:32:13 GMT -5
Yeah, i'd make micros for cash. Lol.
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Post by King of Kings on Oct 11, 2011 5:36:11 GMT -5
Fuck yeah I'd accept money for them.
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Post by Diablo. on Oct 11, 2011 5:41:25 GMT -5
Funny, I got my head ripped off on deviantART by MIB guys for having a commission service (which has had two customers so far), so they pretty much forced me to close it down by posting comments on the blog post warning users how micros should always be free.
I was like... WHUT?
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Post by King of Kings on Oct 11, 2011 5:49:43 GMT -5
Fuck MIB.
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Post by Diablo. on Oct 11, 2011 6:00:37 GMT -5
Well not much I could do, you try selling business with "Oh my god what a joke. Never heard in my seven years of micro making of anyone selling their micros. If you don't see what is wrong with this then just stop making micros." or something along those lines cluttering the comments...
I know one of them was Emissary who was commenting, not sure who the other guy was.
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Post by Next Generation on Oct 11, 2011 6:55:34 GMT -5
MIB is full of pussies......
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Post by AC on Oct 11, 2011 10:32:26 GMT -5
MIB pisses me off. No offense to anyone who came from their but a lot of them are up tight bungholes.
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Post by MJH on Oct 11, 2011 13:25:01 GMT -5
I've been offered money over the years for making gifs, graphics and other stuff and I've never once accepted. I don't think anyone should accept money for micros at all or expect people to pay, fair enough if someone offers and you want to accept but I would rather not see any transactions going on on this site, I've been on pixel art sites where people are paid to do it but they do far much more and are much better than anyone here, including Alex. You wanna make money from graphics? Do logos and such at least it doesn't feel like you're taking an idiots money then because they actually use those logos for their benefits.
Also someone asked me not that long ago if they could pay to have people here make micros for their really small forum, I refused.
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Post by Alex on Oct 11, 2011 13:36:28 GMT -5
Anyone who tells you to shut down your commissions page can fuck off. Its none of their business. People do art for commission all the time, why draw the line at micros. I understand if your using other's temps and stuff and selling the work, but your work is pretty much all custom so i see no problem
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Post by dracine on Oct 11, 2011 14:26:03 GMT -5
Don't blame MIB. I saw the comments. One person was from MIB, which was Matt/Emmisary. And he commented on his own free will, not related to MIB. Don't drag the entire board there.
As for your question, you have to do what you gotta do. That's pretty much it.
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Post by AC on Oct 11, 2011 15:04:24 GMT -5
^ I like how you just show up after not making a single post in almost 2 years when someone makes a post directed towards the almighty MIB...
But the way I look at it is, if they wanna pay, let them pay. Not sure why people think you shouldn't if someone offers. It's like a great man once said "if you're good at something, never do it for free" haha
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Post by dracine on Oct 11, 2011 15:06:54 GMT -5
Yep, I lurk mostly and if someone's gonna trash MIB, which I run, for no reason, I'm going to speak up and defend the board. Not going to apologize for that. I know people have their issues with the board and I can respect that to the fullest, but like I said, don't blame the board because of one person.
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Post by AC on Oct 11, 2011 15:10:36 GMT -5
It's not really MIB that anyone is trashing, its the uptight asshats that post there. No offense to Alex or anyone else that came here from there.
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