Simi (#3588)

You should actually read the dissenting comments before getting /your/ undies in a twist.

Clearly, we know it's optional.

The issue is, for one, artists who are international without the option of Paypal because of fees will have no choice but go with turnips. They don't want to use kofi or other international friendly options because it's "unprofessional". Yet offering monopoly money isn't?

Second, DV is automatically incentivized to hire artists working for turnips over RLC, it's simple business. It's only an 'option' if they are 100% unbiased when it comes to artists and their payment methods, which I would never trust given that turnip artists are in essence free labor. It would be a silly business move to not hire on as many free workers as possible.

Third, as someone else pointed out, younger or more inexperienced artists (18 is an adult legally but it doesn't mean you've got the experience and wisdom of one) or those not confident in their skills may feel they won't have a chance of being picked if they submit for RLC, so may fall back to turnips because they doubt their own skills. I know I was very much in this boat for too much of my art career and screwed myself out of fair payment far too often. Hindsight is 20/20, I've learned from it, but I want to help make sure other artists don't fall in that trap as well.

Lastly, it's just insulting to me on the basis that DV is a massive petsite with the privilege that 99% of petsites don't get- they started out with *plentiful* funds, nearly double Flight Rising and FR handles their art hiring extremely professionally, no mention of IGC whatsoever, as it should be.


The majority of all petsites are struggling as they go, making enough to make ends meet as they become developed.
When those petsites offer IGC for payment, it's out of necessity. They don't like doing it- they feel awful for not being able to pay all artists $.
When DV does it, given their history, all I am left to assume is that it's out of greed.