[SotW] Song of the Week - Original Piece Time Restriction

PLEASE ONLY VOTE IF YOU PARTICIPATE IN SONG OF THE WEEK

This is a poll on official policy, so I'd appreciate it if only people who vote and/or nominate vote on this matter. If I don't recognize your name, I won't count your vote with the final tally. Thanks in advance.

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This is the easy one!

Should we allow original tracks made at any point in time by a professional VGM composer?

Current SotW rules have no time restriction, so if a professional VGM composer's first game was this year, then a track from his 1954 original album would be eligible. Is this okay? Options:

• Yes
  Keep things the way they are.
• Restrict to after first VGM credit
  Only allow original pieces written after a composer's first VGM credit.
• Other
  <insert alternate plan>
• Abstain/Don't care
  (X ' ___ ' )

Feel free to justify your decisions (especially with an Other vote) and talk amongst yourselves in this thread. I'm going to give this a week for now, but I might end up having a mod extend it by another week if the BSC distracts too many people.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by GoldfishX

If we go by the middle option, nearly all of Yoko Kanno's anime work becomes eligible. If, god forbid, Jeremy Soule goes onto scoring movies full-time, all of that would be available.

Also, we expressly forbid music written for films, anime, and TV, even by VGM composers. Trying to keep it just to VGM, arrangements, and standalone pieces not tied to anything else.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Removing Gechmir's vote of "Restrict to after first VGM credit" (play Cave Story instead of stuffing the ballot box ), there is a seven vote plurality for yes, so the rules will remain the same regarding this issue.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

To my knowledge, he's never participated in SotW:

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If I don't recognize your name, I won't count your vote with the final tally.

Unless you remember him from way earlier?

How ya doing, buddy?

Unfortunately, we do have that big gap in the wiki records, so there's a hole where I know at least one set of his votes is missing, since I remember him giving three points to Armageddon from Live a Live in whatever week that track appeared (I was going through the old threads finding out what tracks from Live a Live had already been nominated).

There's also no good way, as far as I can tell, to search through the history of an article, because that'd certainly help in finding the nomination histories of people. In addition to who knows how many other tracks, he's nominated FM Sound Module Maniax - TripleVOPM in Week 64 and Rogue Galaxy Premium Arrrange - The Labyrinth in Week 68.

I was speaking idiomatically.