"Okay, let me put it from our side of the story.
Do you all care about the fact that us musicians are pouring in hours of work, only to be greeted with a bunch of kids who think that if a song is not as good as Skrillex, they can 0-bomb it all they want?
Do you all care about the fact that we don't even get a single penny of ad revenue share or even the proceeds from our plays on Geometry Dash?
Do you care that some of our songs aren't even meant to be used commercially, and the fact that they are used in this game actually breaks the law?
Do you care that people are actually legit doing the things that they are doing, or even the vitriol that you see on your page?
I'm sorry, we have dealt with this for three years. It's time this changed."
First thing: Did you even bother reading my entire comment?
"Do you all care about the fact that us musicians are pouring in hours of work, only to be greeted with a bunch of kids who think that if a song is not as good as Skrillex, they can 0-bomb it all they want?"
Yes, there is an entire forum of people who care (I'd recommend ignoring the psychos) http://gdforum.freeforums.net/
"Do you all care about the fact that we don't even get a single penny of ad revenue share or even the proceeds from our plays on Geometry Dash?"
Lemme sum this up: You pay once for GD unless moving to another platform.
Full version: No ads, pay once unless you move to another account/phone/sim card
The Lite Version: There are ads, but you can't play online levels that use the songs on NG. And before you mention the songs used in the official levels, those artists gave full permission for RobTop to use their songs, and have expressed the fact that they love Geometry Dash. (F-777, Waterflame, Dj-Nate, MDK etc.)
Geometry Dash Meltdown: GDM is basically just GD Lite Version, but with three official levels, and that's all.
Geometry Dash World: I have no argument for this.
Also, if you mean Newgrounds doesn't earn a penny from us GD players, then I can vouch for the fact that it's probably because most of us simply can't cause we don't have money.
If you mean the artists don't earn money, then I can guarantee that's something you made up in your head. I would even go as far to say that GD managed to help certain song artists get out there and become somewhat popular, Hinkik is a major one, I love his style of music and I'm thankful that Krazyman50 managed to get his songs into the community. Me as well as many of my friends discovered great songs and artists (F-777, Xtrullor, and TFR were the biggest ones for me and my friends) because of Geometry Dash, so I can guarantee that artists definitely benefit from us in some way shape or form.
"Do you care that some of our songs aren't even meant to be used commercially, and the fact that they are used in this game actually breaks the law?"
Actually, here's the thing, the songs used in the game are almost always 100% legal. Newgrounds and Robert Topala made a LEGAL agreement about the songs. Even still, there's another thing that protects GD even further, the licensing terms. If a song says something a long the lines of "You may not use this song for any commercial purposes period." then RobTop has probably banned the song for use on GD. He has that kind of power, and if he hasn't banned the song then its only a matter of time before he does.
On a sidenote, yes, it bothers me that the community is uploading copyrighted and illegal songs.
"Do you care that people are actually legit doing the things that they are doing, or even the vitriol that you see on your page?"
(I don't commonly use Newgrounds, so I'm not exactly sure what a vitriol is) And yes, like I said in my previous statement, I disagree with the people uploading illegal music.
EvilflameGMD
This post is downright toxic and hateful, with not much proof to back up your claims. Thanks for generalizing the entire GD community fucknut. You are screwing this game over for sooooo many people who respect Newgrounds and who aren't cancer. Yes, there are bad people, but there are bad community in your community too. Was this not considered? And your point against users uploading songs that they don't own is 100% invalid. Moderators remove stolen songs from the audio portal. So yes, a couple people upload songs they don't have permission to upload, but if Newgrounds mods don't do a good job of removing them, that's not on GD. People other than this community post things like that too. Another claim of yours that makes no sense is the fact that you think RobTop is guilty of "theft". Do you think he wants the community doing this? No. And it's not like he can control it either, whether you believe that or not. He probably does care about the musicians unlike your assumption. And how about that GD player who messaged you? He was *very* polite and you replied to him as such an asshole. It wasn't necessary to treat him like that after he was so nice. You also say that GD is not helping Newgrounds flourish. The truth is, it probably is. Because of the millions who play this game, your artists get a LOT more publicity and fame, so while it may not be the only reason it is still up, it definitely has helped your website a lot. You say that the musicians are harassed to let players use the music in their levels, but they don't have to give in. If your site was as successful as you imply, then your artists wouldn't need the fans over the revenue ("Someone approaches you saying 'let me put this in my game.' You get the fans -- but not the money.")
You talk about us not respecting anyone on Newgrounds but in writing this post you have successfully shown yourself as a hypocrite. You have generalized the entire damn community and didn't think rationally about the situation, showing disrespect to the GD community. I understand your concerns but I would much rather have a valid argument take down a massive game rather than this venomous statement.
Yes, the community I vouch for has problems. But so does yours. And it's not fair to think of everyone who plays this game as toxic, entitled trash.
Troisnyx
You're just as venomous as you claim me to be, hypocrite of your own making.
The site is not responsible for ad revenue share that comes off Geometry Dash. It's your pwecious widdle RobTop. Who broke the law by breaking the Creative Commons NONCOMMERCIAL licence by having them played in a commercial game.
Plus, the vitriol that you and others have spewed only prove my point about just how toxic your community is. Newgrounds didn't sign up to be a partner of Geometry Dash to have pissy bastards like you lot. We signed up so that artists would be treated with the respect they deserved. Instead, they were not respected.
Why don't you ask @EDM364? What I wrote in that post was verbatim from her moderators' log. She is transparent about these things.
Or why don't you ask @Xtrullor about how your fellow fans harrassed him to the point that he actually contemplated leaving NG just because he wanted to make music in peace?
Nope, none of that eh?