All you need to do is take one quick look in the art thread and you can tell that copy/pasted textures are a big deal. The general idea is that textures that came from source images are worth less than hand drawn textures.

My opinion is that making c/p textures is just as hard as creating art with a tablet or a pencil. It's not easy to morph images of cars or bikes into a good image or a robot or something like that. It is understandable that some things would be a little easier to create because the artist doesn't have to worry about the texturing or lighting and whatnot, but most of this is situational.

What are your opinions on this? Should c/p textures be less valuable because "less effort" was put into them?

That isn't the type of cp I mean. I'm talking about taking a picture of a car or something along those lines and cutting pieces out of it and then morphing it to make an "original" texture

I think it's weird when people think something isn't worth as much because it is c/p. It only matters on how it looks. These people just really like the certain art and do this cheap way of getting the art for a lower price saying "it's c/p, so 15k" Take flyingmonk's sets for example; I would pay at least 100k for each of them.

So, I think of it as a small scam when people downgrade it for c/p.