[WillRock]

My view of the matter is that what remix albums are being released/been released on OCR is irrelevant when doing a remix album. if someone wants to do a remix album of a soundtrack, then hell, they should do it regardless of if its been done before. I've considered doing a links awakening album of my own in the past, because I didn't totally feel threshold of a dreams concept.

Also, Solo projects - should be up to the director if its made public, its their business. When its a community album, its the communities business and should be made public for people.
However, If people want to do a private album, then while I appreciate that there might be an outcry from the community, its up to the director how he does it.
If I got a few of my remixing friends together from the community, as well as a few musician friends from outside OCR, and had it released on OCR without telling the WHOLE COMMUNITY which has over 2500 members, would you guys be butthurt over it? Sometimes the director doesn't want full community involvement. And there is no stopping someone starting an album of the same soundtrack with community involvement, if it gets on OCR or not.

[Metal Man]

Well now I know why you didn't answer my PM about the FF6 project WillRock, it's because you're already involved in the "secret" one. Right?

[Brandon Strader]

The major question is, does the existence of the elitist secret ff6 project make it less likely for the community ff6 project to gain official status?

[Liontamer]

Just pointing out a couple of things, which have been laid out by other staff:

* There is no inferior/superior labeling of these projects. There are only closed and open recruitment styles. Closed recruitment isn't mutually inclusive to elitism, it's just another recruitment style. We're not going to penalize project directors for working with people they know. Not every creative effort is done through open recruitment. Welcome to the real world.

* Bigger picture, not every free game arrangement fan album is published through OC ReMix. And even though that would be awesome, OC ReMix not entitled to be told about everything made by people who are involved in this community. And, yet, no one has died. It's OK!

* The reasoning for complaining about an album having to be open recruitment is the same reasoning to argue that we need to lower the judging bar to accept a higher percentage of submissions just because OC ReMix is popular and that somehow makes the site obligated to publish everyone's submissions.

* I agree that when the Bad Dudes do their albums, that they are douches for not inviting everyone and just doing them among their group. How DARE they?

DOWN WITH THE BAD DUDES!

Originally Posted by Brandon Strader

The major question is, does the existence of the elitist secret ff6 project make it less likely for the community ff6 project to gain official status?

No. And they're both community albums.

Originally Posted by Nekofrog

I'm still extraordinarily butthurt over this.

Your butt always hurts.

[Level 99]

Originally Posted by Brandon Strader

The major question is, does the existence of the elitist secret ff6 project make it less likely for the community ff6 project to gain official status?

What elitist secret ff6 project? I only know of a secret ff6 project.

[Nekofrog]

Originally Posted by Liontamer

Your butt always hurts.

Not when I bust out my Zangief. SUCKA.

[Brandon Strader]

I'm talking about the third FF6 project, but wait which one was prophecy's? His was 2nd right?

[Kirvee]

Regarding the B-K albums, I was already made aware of the secret one when I first started my thread. Shortly after, actually.

We're fine because theirs only focuses on one game while mine focuses on the whole series (and thus all 3 main games).

The release date on mine is also not set in stone. I also want to get official status but for that we need to be actually working on stuff and right now we're just recruiting (very...very slowly). While it would be NICE to have official status and be able to release next June, that is entirely dependent on how many people join my project and how quickly we gain new recruits. As both of those things are happening at a molasses pace, chances of that secret project being released before mine are high.

Especially since, as I've been informed by the director, they're already pretty much done where as we don't even have any WIPs yet (and I refuse to take WIPs until every track on the list has a remixer so the thread doesn't get prematurely locked for rule violation).

So TL;DR, we're good on the B-K projects. Please join mine. <3

[Bahamut]

Originally Posted by Kirvee

Regarding the B-K albums, I was already made aware of the secret one when I first started my thread. Shortly after, actually.

We're fine because theirs only focuses on one game while mine focuses on the whole series (and thus all 3 main games).

The release date on mine is also not set in stone. I also want to get official status but for that we need to be actually working on stuff and right now we're just recruiting (very...very slowly). While it would be NICE to have official status and be able to release next June, that is entirely dependent on how many people join my project and how quickly we gain new recruits. As both of those things are happening at a molasses pace, chances of that secret project being released before mine are high.

Especially since, as I've been informed by the director, they're already pretty much done where as we don't even have any WIPs yet (and I refuse to take WIPs until every track on the list has a remixer so the thread doesn't get prematurely locked for rule violation).

So TL;DR, we're good on the B-K projects. Please join mine. <3

You can always take WIPs - you don't have to update the thread with the WIP status. That's what I do here.

[Otakatt]

I am confused how people can complain about the FF6 project being elitist or snubbing them without actually knowing anything about the project other than the fact it exists.

With some OCR projects there's sort of a common theme for the sake of cohesiveness, rather than it being a bunch of different songs in outrageously different styles, because if it were, what was the point of making it into an *album*? For all one knows there could be a common theme in the FF6 project. Maybe it leans more towards melodic orchestra rather than death metal and screaming. In which case the latter would be inappropriate. In projects it's not always a matter of what's good vs. what's bad. It's just a matter of what fits.