"why not kill all the forums and just be a store?" Strictly realistically speaking, that's how they get the customers in - by offering some interesting reason to hang out. And the galleries, even where "advertising" is prohibited (even though there's a "product credits" feature) are the best advertising possible. Renderosity is a business, making business-type decisions in regard to the direction in which they wish to take it. I don't think anyone is pretending it's anything other than that. I've also seen plenty of examples where they do show a genuine concern for the members. Look at all the dead or dying forii here. It takes a little time to add those to the site, and they do it by request, not for a fee, in order to make the members who want it happy. They can't give everyone everything they want, or else they'd spend their whole day fulfilling wishes. Yeah, Tim said more about the MP than about anything else, but then again I don't think he started up this Bondware thing just to practice his coding.