What shame attaches to being original? As an example, in the computer games market, there are thousands of games which all look the same: fist on the bottom of the screen sporting a weapon with bloody splatters on the background. How many of those games sell? A handful. All that time and talent squandered on same-old same-old. Unless it is one of the top 3 names, it won't sell, and probably won't even get finished. If you make a look-alike game, you've wasted the investment because the customers won't even see it in the marketing hype for the next generation Doom or Quake. When a game costs a million dollars to build and 25 million to market, you know just how skewed the system is. Those people who managed to bring something new to market, over the hurdles of the producers, have established new franchises: SimCity, Myst, Civ. If those designers didn't have confidence, we would all be poorer for the lack of variety in the marketplace. I'm not interested in the same character packages which fill the galleries. In fact, seeing a costume/texture/background pack extensively hyped by the merchant's friends is such a turnoff that I avoid purchasing anything by any member of the group. Saturation is a real problem. BTW, if a merchant's ads jump, wiggle, and flicker, I will actively avoid him as a nuisance to humanity! If you are going to sell a temple, a sword, or a caucasian skin texture it had better be a WHOLE lot better than what is out there already. Not bloated. Better. I'm smart enough to know the difference. If you make something original, it doesn't have to be superb. Just good. Example... any horse brought into this market must be better than what we already have. Much better to justify a superior price tag. A badger or ferret or ermine would just need to be good. What shame would attach to being the person who FINALLY makes us a badger? Carolly