At 10/6/09 11:58 AM, The-Great-One wrote:
At 10/6/09 11:40 AM, Catoblepas wrote:
I WANT MY BUNCH OF PIXEL TROPHIES!
Well it's not really about the pixel trophies, it's just that the Audio Portal is getting shunned so much. The Audio Portal has been neglected for a long time and I'm glad that this year's Halloween submissions that want to win an award must use non-commercial music.
Still the Audio Portal needs to be worked on some more instead of the Art Portal.
it's not like it's the first contest on NG that requires AP-music...
and while i as an audio-artist myself would love to see improvments with the system, it's not difficult to understand why improvments are being made on other parts of the site instead of time spent with the AP.
I can imagine that the AP don't bring alot of ad-money at all, put the fact that Tom & CO are all flash-people to begin with. Flash is the heart of this site, and may very well always be.
However, with a more up to date AP, I'm pretty sure there would be alot more artists around, and with that even better music, and with that follows more AD-money and clients willing to buy AD-space... kindof a catch 22, but those improvments would have to be made on the expense of letting something else on the site wait. i can only guess that the artportal brings more talent (+ its alot "closer" to flash than audio), and then they have to keep up with the competition of the rest of the internets flashsites, no?...
maybe one day, who know... i do really hope so anyways... :)