Ok, I can see why people are upset over XP and I agree that a lot of talented artist don't stand a chance of getting into the top ten if there work is other than XP lately.
Worse thing is I was in the OB section just now, and every OB theme I saw was XP, and they all look identical now. I encouraged one of the artist to do something original. Hell I get asked to do this too. I was recently accused of having like 30 XP WB skins !
ok that just is NOT true, and there is now only a few of them on the site now. I have deleted the rest in favour of my recent upload which is the one I wanted all along to look like.
Feel sad at the fact that many talented Artists arn't getting into the top ten. I have spoken to Treetog about my real feelings on this. And hell I am not just doing XP stuff forever anyway. I have some stuff on deviantart that is not Microsoft.I started out like that, then tailed off. Ok maybe there is hope for me yet,
I do have to say though that it does take skill and talent to create any kind of WB Skin or any other skin for that matter. Not just about every one can use a Skinning program to start with. WB is not a piece of cake to learn. As for graphics, well. I did much of my graphics by hand too. Ok I know some people wont accept that. But that is the truth and I stand by that. Most XP skins I see except a small portion of them are bad copies of skin that were done before them. They should not have been submitted as there was no need for them. Alexandrie, Scratch, and even Dan Decampaneu created early Luna and Whistler skins. I ended up doing them after I had created a theme for Hoverdesk for them. Anyway,.
Dont worry guys it will all be over some time soon.
When XP is out no one will touch another XP so and so on here anyway, and the real talent will still be here.
I do think that some XP work should well be moderated, to keep the high quality of standards. Some should be but not all.
I know in fact this must already be happening anyway. As some of the XP stuff has vanished. I moderated my own skins, and removed theones that were not important anymore. I WAS thinking of doing an OB version, but I decided not to. There is still too many in that section.!
[And mostly by the same person] Thats why I have encouraged him to try new hights.
