Re: Not ~exactly~ new
Posted: 07 Jun 2010 01:02 pm
Thanks so much for answering that question. I do understand why they wanted to keep up with the times and let people customize their cat/face/toilet, but was there a reason why they decided to not give the users an option about customizing? Some pets got the "convert?" option but so many didn't. I'm curious about why that decision was made. Maybe they felt that if they didn't convert a good percentage of pets, people would just stick with the old art over the ability to put a dress on their moehog or something?soupfaerie wrote:I kind of had mixed feelings at the conversion. On one hand it was nice to give some pets a much-needed refreshing. On the other hand it was difficult to change some of them around to fit within the new format. Believe me, I fought hard to keep the integrity of as many of them as much as I could. We ended up working a lot with the programmer in charge to get as much as we could to work/fit. But some things just couldn't be helped. I think overall it was for the better, because I think it was an important step for the site as a whole to keep up with the other rising websites that let you customize your cat/face/toilet/etc. But yeah it was sad to see some of the old art go.
Also curious about why some royalgirl/boy pairs were messed up - the royalgirl acara was autoconverted, the royalboy was not, for example. Now you can't have an unconverted pair. Were those intentional decisions? They feel like oversights because they just don't make sense...