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Can we require that regular covers be made before customs?
Aganar:
Didn't want to make another topic on the Feedback forum, so I made one here. >_>
In any case, there are numerous covers in the archive--mostly in the PS1 and DC area--where the only covers available are custom covers for DVD cases. That's fine, if that's the best we can do; however, from looking at these cases it's clear that the source image is, in fact, a RAW of the actual CD inserts. Why then aren't these inserts themselves cleaned up and uploaded first? It doesn't seem fair that custom covers, which take far more work to clean up and make into usable templates, take priority over simply cleaning and uploading the CD-case inserts, which are the source images for the DVD cases in the first place. Further, it is my understanding that once a RAW has been turned into something--be it a retail CD cover or a custom DVD cover--it is discarded, meaning if it was the latter people are stuck with the DVD cover.
Not to complain, and I'm sure I do alot, but it just strikes me as rather strange. Why should a game have only a custom cover and not an original when it's clear from looking at the custom that someone was clearly using an original as the source?
tiktektak:
It is because the srtists doing the cover decide to do so....
I'd love to have just original covers too but it lies in the hands of the artist making a cover out of a raw...
And it is his right to decide....
Grumbleduke:
If i have a decent raw to start with,i fully intend to post jewel case versions now.(Not DC or PS tho...CD32,NGCD,and maybe.....CD-I ? ;) )
Aganar:
Can we at least then allow the raws of a game to stay until a retail cover has been made?
marioxb:
I too, think that all raws should ONLY be deleted after being posted in their ORIGINAL format.