StaceyG opened this issue on Apr 21, 2005 ยท 97 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Fri, 22 April 2005 at 2:43 PM
Now that would just be silly.
Silly.....? SILLY??????
Just you wait, my friend......they are going to get you.
It's always the unwary ones that go first.
I didn't say I had a problem with it, either. It does seem that a lot of people using the various forums seem to think this is a community of some sort. That's what causes a lot of the anguish. People have unrealistic expectations because they believe the marketing hype that the 'community' is what counts and the store is a sideline.
You've got a point here --
But once again: the main discussions at City Hall tend to center around tax collections, revenues, and disbursements.
This is pretty much true in every community -- of any type.
The fact that a city's government is pre-occupied with money (which all of them are) doesn't translate into the idea that the city therefore isn't a "community".
Besides, city services have to be paid for somehow.
Trash collection, public health, public transportation....other services. The money for all of this has to come from somewhere.
You can't carry a gallery the size of the one here at Renderosity for free. For this reason -- the store is a very important aspect of this.........community.
Just as tax collection is important for my hometown. It makes everything run.