I tend to agree with you Fyrespirit, having been on the receiving end of similar emails and abuse. I have finally given up. I was negotiating a deal for a paid website that would cover my bandwidth and some to spare. Would have cost me about 450 dollars a year to run it but with 75gb bandwidth per month I figured it would suffice. After this year though screw it. I've left my freebies at Daz but they're the end of it. Anything I make now goes to friends only or into the 3DArena store for site support (I take no profit). Even that will be a few items only. I'm just heartily sick of the whole thing. If it wasn't for people like Ironbear, Jade, Jackie, X2, Snowsultan, Silvermage, Shlabber, Don Albert, Legume, Bladesmith, jmahoney and a few others I'd wash my hands of this whole damn scene. It's not that it's no fun, more that it's all about the damn dollar and people fucking each other in the ass just to get some, and a couple personalities taking the time to gloat and promote themselves in the mess. I had a plan earlier this year to do something to get me "back in the mood", even went so far as to post a preview here of stuff I hoped would be ready for Christmas. Two full character packs and some other toys and I just built a whole furnished house. But... well. I guess some of it will find it's way into site support. Hey, if I'm going to get abuse and ripped off anyway, it might as well do some good and support my net home, neh? I'm rather lucky in some ways. Most of my stuff is unique enough that it gets noticed when someone tries to sell it, a couple times it didn't but I found out and the thing was removed (this was not at Daz, RMP, 3DC or PP) But really. What's the motivation these days for producing freebies for people? I love abuse when it's directed accurately or done well but not for the sake of it. I don't want people fawning at my feet like they do with some personalities and then there's the wonderful "merchants" who think stealing is ok and that a fast buck is more important than earning it honestly. One would think that they'd have just a teeny bit more integrity. I disagree with the TLC idea, I don't think that's necessary at all. A little gratitude rather than hate would be nice but I can live with that. It's all the rest of the crap. My feelings are summed up at 3DArena so I won't repeat it all here. Welcome to the machine, welcome to the new world. Greed is god and to hell with everything else.