Hello @cranium, sorry if I did not see your comment right away.

Billthecipher (formerly the person who had been banned from our discord under another nick after trolling there) also was the person who previously, on another post, spread news about my personal life in the comments.

I had to answer there, but I don't plan to look at all the places where he copies/pastes his elements. I have to speak on the third person here, which is extremely impolite and I would rather not, but I lost hope for now on this one.

As you can see here, he multi-replied to all the comments in here, spending some energy.

So, about the answer now.

As mentioned in multiple posts previously, including a comment reply to Jacob Peacock above: (made 2 days ago and before these questions)

All our artists are paid, and we paid for these arts.

As mentioned in some places, Luca Oleastri is a very productive stock artist and his works have been found very fitting for the EXODE universe.

I have been featuring Luca's arts even when EXODE was first imagined some years ago, and since then he has been making more interesting arts, and again I find them fitting for our theme.

Luca is an amazing sci-fi artist. Not only that, but I also believe EXODE is a great place to give story, meaning and purpose to his art.

We are in 2020 and stock artists have been going on for some 15+ years, it's time they are paid some respect. They learnt to work with no client, and have their art able to be featured in multiple projects instead of committing them to one (which might be unreleased etc). I appreciate that angle and what they help studios with.

And it's obviously time people understand that when you find an art on internet, it does not mean we stole it, it possibly meant we paid for it. I have a publisher past and have editorial values, I don't steal stuff.

Insulting artists who allow projects to work on budget; or insulting projects who fulfill their vision while still being on their budget, is wrong. And very gratuitous.