This week we again see an entire thread selected for Forum Post of The Week as oppose to a single reply. The reason for this is the history that this thread brings to the table. This week we saw Drone, Boss of Omega Soldiers, bring the question to the table about the current designers of Bootleggers, as he asked:
Who is still playing and making pictures.
At the moment, active and able to design in my opinion = Sadistic.
Drone said
In rounds gone by this type of topic has been an all too common sight, with hundreds of names being thrown into the pot. The picture making community of Bootleggers reached great heights at many points in the past, with users willing to part with vast sums of cash and points to get their favored designers work up in their profile.
However with the user base declining and the vast majority of whom would be considered the old guard of picture makers having retired, with the likes of Dagorlad, Roadkill, LukkyB (perhaps for the wrong reasons) and KingdomHeart all providing names in the hall of fame, the game seems to of seen a move away from competition in the graphics department. The cosmetic needs of the users seems to be in decline. Has this prompted the decline in active picture makers, or is it due to a deeper root cause?
It is possible, that the decline in amazing quality pictures has seen the users become less interested in sprucing up their profiles. At the height of the graphics industry times, users would go out of their way to track down and attain the services of the most famous picture makers. But with perhaps this edge of quality gone, the users have found other things to invest their fortunes in.
What do you think has led to the blatant decline in the graphics community? Is it a lack of demand or a lack of quality? A lack of users or a lack of designers? Who knows, but the glory of rounds four, five and six, which saw such great graphics being produced on a regular basis, appears to be gone. This is no disrespect to the picture makers who currently produce the images the users use to decorate their profiles, but times have without doubt changed. Do you not think?
