yarp opened this issue on Sep 13, 2000 ยท 36 posts
Jack D. Kammerer posted Thu, 14 September 2000 at 2:35 AM
I could go into the long numbers of how much this site costs to run, how much time goes into it and other B.S. to justify my case of having a Online Store. Then again, I could always charge a membership fee to get in and keep everything free.... I will try refrain from being sarcastic, promise, I will try... In all honesty, I have a direction that I want to take this Site, which costs money and will ALSO benefit the Community. Yes, it will be more commercialized, sorry to say this, but I don't hold a gun to your head and tell you to stay... or to buy. Renderosity has been doing ALLOT for the members here, things that you don't even know about. Things that we don't make public, because if we did, people would say WE own them and they would lose their value to you. Renderosity, or more to the point Ed, Diane, Myself and the Staff here, are out to help the Community. That HAS been our first goal since day one. Sorry you don't like us being commercialized, someone else have pointed other great resources sites out there that ARE free. But I am sorry to say, the Online Store is staying, it supports what Ed and I are doing and people are unfortunately going to have to get used to that fact. Jack