Well, I'm not hanging out at TurboSquid, not with $900 basketballs- and I have never even played Quake or most other games.

Renderosity being a site for creative exchange is just fine, too, in fact I see lots of creativity and generosity among the folks who provide free tutorials, plug-ins etc for GMAX. I don't see any big toll booths there. In fact, as you might know, GMAX is itself a FREE application, basically MAX 4 but without a renderer. You can even use MAX scipts (free) and create animations, etc. All the plug-ins I've located are FREE also.

The ToyBox deals that TurboSquid is selling are also not something I would buy, but I bet they are selling fairly well as they are adding more. (And they're cheap).

What I REALLY SEE happening is that all these models will get MUCH BETTER and that we will see 3D Game software actually "rendering" extremely high quality models within the next year. What "stops" that is that button mashing Action gamers want ultra-fast speed- so that means relatively low poly, etc. But what I also see in software geared to the probably older set, such as Flight Simulator,
are EXTREMELY HIGH QUALITY models that aren't built for Button Mashing speed, but for beautiful, luxury CRUISING.
I doubt that most of you here are aware of this if you aren't a Flight Sim fan and have some of the latest models- they are EXTREMELY detailed and beautiful...