Yeah, but his every few in between articles, he also made a lot of dumb ones, not to mention starting with his ilk the dumbas hottakes that the fgc was a lot of ism ists and shit like that.
So I just tested out FC after a long time, got fucked by some Ryu, then fucked up a Necro. Those exhibition matches got me hyped.
I need to get a mic for it,I forgot where they sale it at.
The article does touch on a salient matter.
What used to be accepted as perfectly fair community involvement has increasingly come under fire as an exploitative practice. Whether it is soliciting entirely unpaid work from an eager to please fanbase, offering to pay only the “chosen” out of a multitude of submissions, or offering to pay in “exposure”; it all falls under the same umbrella.
I’m not saying that there aren’t degrees. But Capcom’s contest is treading into territory that increasing numbers of the population find anywhere from uncomfortable to completely unacceptable. What you may see as innocent fan involvement is still Capcom getting potentially thousands of concept arts, ranging from childish scribbles to professional-level work, entirely for free.
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Wait I’m lost…we are bitching about fan contests now?
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Today’s the day. First SRK pandemic online tourney.
I’m excited
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A quick way to get your thoughts ignored or dismissed is to have them posted on Polygon or Kotaku. Just being real. I’m not the only that has washed my hands on those “news” outlets.
@Vhozite Apparently so. No one had shit to say when SNK had a character design contest though. Shit only seems to be a problem when it involves Capcom.
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Here’s the thing though, you’re publically submitting your work, so it’s not like they can reuse it later and not pay a dime because there’s evidence of the artists’ work.
Furthermore, “paying with exposure” in this case is actually a significant exposure.
Besides, Capcom is being upfront about it, so only artists that want their work to be featured in the game and are fans of the series will join the contest.
I really don’t see anything wrong with it.
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Capcom is paying these artists in exposure
which to my understanding is the preferred way artists want to be paid, over all other things!!!
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Yeah my best friend is damn good artist. I told him about the contest and he’s entering. His buddy is interested as well. He does commissions, if more people see his work and they like it. That’s more money in his pocket.
Edit: Has anyone told @DiasFox about this? It could get him more commissions too.
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He’s right, cause the man is an artist
No it doesn’t. It only touches on a bunch of people who wish Capcom would pay them for shit. This thing sounds like it has legs because of Google’s nonsense when asking for free work. But the reality is that getting free stuff sent in is a nightmare for legal departments.
How much of a nightmare is it for a corporation to look at somebody’s made up nonsense? WoTC would basically forbid all their devs from doing it. If somehow stuff made it into the game because they looked at an amateur game maker, they’d be cracked open like a walnut.
So this isn’t just something they announced at random. Ono was probably really happy, then had to argue with a bunch of people above him to approve it, then had to talk to legal about what happens with all the work they don’t use all so that fans could try and do something fun. All the people crying about how they should’ve been paid were never going to get paid in this situation.
Let me emphasize that again:
"All the people crying about how they should’ve been paid were never going to get paid in this situation. "
If you’re a professional, then don’t do it. SF5 is already full of stuff that shows capcom will reach out to pros for music, art, modeling etc. This is very much about not having pros involved.
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The process of submitting a work to the contest includes ceding all rights to that work to Capcom. Check section 10 of the contest rules.
This is pretty standard legal protection for the organization running such a contest, as it prevents those submitting (losing) works from later suing the company if the company releases something that is similar to a submitted work.
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Considering Capcom has a whole ass website just for fan engagement, capcom unity, and they’ve worked with fans to release their fan made work for other fans, Megaman vs SF, people need to take a step back on this shit.
Yeah, corporations suck nuts. Corporations also have good ass people working on them that want to do good/fun things for other people. You be able to do fun fan engaging things like this, you can’t just shit all over it because you assume its a job you could’ve had.
That’s not at all how that shit works.
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WotC do that for their own legal protection, to prevent being sued. That’s why so many companies have policies stating that unsolicited works will be disposed of without being viewed.
Which, again, is why Capcom’s contest includes a section where just by submitting your work you are agreeing to cede your rights to that work to Capcom. While this is to protect Capcom, it does mean that Capcom can, if it wants, use your submission how it wants at any point in the future without any further compensation.
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Final fantasy XIV does fan design contest every single year, either for armor or furniture.
Capcom does a lot of stupid shit with SFV. This ain’t it.
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It amazes me when you have things like the poor netcode and half a dozen hour maintenance periods people focus stuff like this.
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Exactly why I said, Ono first had to get it approved by higher ups then get it cleared by Legal.
This doesn’t happen at random. That whole piece was trying to cast aspersions at Ono for getting free work. Ono has been getting black eyes to do good things for SF fans for 10 years now. No, the guy just wants to have fun.
The whole world is just a purposefully abussive place where capcom is just trying to take advantage of people even though they have thousands of unused concept art they can fall back on if they ever needed to.
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Oh and in regards to compensation, winners get a pair of in game earring, and a hat, I think? Or a ring?
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They get a free signed copy of the first two volumes of Das Kapital so they can find out how bourgeoisie Capcom exploited their proletariat asses for labor so they can continue controlling the means of costume production.
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