3dxtract a great idea gone bad. As soon as the community started backing the site big time and rallying behind it and it became popular with the user base...what happened? You got it! Lets charge everyone now; 3dxtract when commercial. I think I downloaded like 3 magazines and then I stopped visiting the site. If the activity is down it is probably due to the high cost of the program. I think it is outrageous for Eovia to raise the cost 50% from one version to the next. I refused even to pay the upgrade cost and still use 3. Someone would really have to seek counseling if they would plop down $600 for Carrara when they could get Cinema or XSI for about the same and for Softimage XSI $200 less and that includes the training videos! I think what Eovia needs to do is exactly what Curious Labs did with Poser 5; cut the price in half. I know this really irritated the users who paid the full asking price when it first came out but you have to do what you have to do.