Special:Badtitle/NS2001:Updates & News/@comment-27729796-20170927231654/@comment-27729796-20170929182746

You're welcome to host transparents on another Wiki, but not here anymore. Yes, it's unrealistic to have to seperate galleries just to host what is, essentially, fanart. If fan transparenters want to create a transparent sprite resource on another Wiki or image host, thats up to them - I also contibuted my fair share of sprite transparents to the Wiki and would understand it, Wikis are a good way of hosting collections of images. But realistically, they are fan art. They're edits. Danganronpa isn't an image host for people's edits, it's meant to be a repository for official work related to Danganronpa. We did pre-warn that fan transparents would be removed two months ago. We can't quality control the edits that people have made or know how well they reflect the actual official sprites. Sprites are one of the most major points of Danganronpa, and official work should be what we go with when it's available.

We absolutely realise that we're going back on an old policy of accepting fan transparented sprites, but that's because at the time we didn't realise the impact it would have - we're meant to be a reliable source of official artwork and our sprite galleries were full of fanworks instead, often heavily edited to the point of having different facial expressions and so on for uniformity between the sprites. Which we understand and appreciate from an aesthetic perspective, but isn't reflective of what the sprites are meant to actually look like. Same with line thickness and so on, and some editors being better than others at quality outlining in general. The upgraded sprite quality in the PC port would have necessitated gallery overhauls anyway. Higher resolution sprites would have replaced the fan transparents even if we had continued to allow fan transparents, because official, higher resolution artwork has to take priority.

More importantly, the fact is, the majority of the sprites are also available, in official, transparent form, in equally as high quality, in the bonus mode, which you will plainly see in Rantaro's gallery. So we're losing very few sprites by dropping unofficial transparent sprites - they're simply cropped differently, which is an easy fix.