Well I'm not a big fan of deleting threads, but these aren't my forums, and if I were Alex, ZylonBane's first post would've probably been enough to make me leave these forums. That guy just does
not know how to give critique, and his posts makes all the balanced and pleasant critique seem insulting by mere association (yes Zylon, they do).
I can understand if the HDTP guys want to prevent people from pissing off their only character texturer too much, because if Alex leaves the team (which it seemed to me he was pretty close to doing in that Anna thread), this whole project would once again be in deep shit.
So you all just gotta ask yourselves: Would you rather be forced to reevaluate the way you see some of these characters, or would you prefer to play with the old one? Because you may not know this, but the final version of HDTP will come with the option of not installing the new character files, and given that I don't remember a single positive comment on the characters from you, ZylonBane, you're probably going to want to make use of that.
If you only remember one sentence from this post, let this be it:
Nobody can please everybody all of the time. Even JC, that most of you agree was spot on in the first attempt, received some flack in the comments for the news post ("This is a good modelling and texturing job, but it is NOT JC Denton." - WTF? Do you have a photo of the actual guy, or are you just assuming your own mental image of him is universal, Daedalus? Crazy Russian
).
If HDTP decides to take the bullet and attempt to accept more of our feedback in the future, I'll be amazed, but I won't be surprised, because they care. However, if they decide they're not going to take all this crap, but just complete the models according to their own (quite harsh) quality standards from now on, I'll respect that. You know why? Because I haven't done a frickin' thing to help these people, so I have no right to demand they accomodate my requests for changes to
their models.
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