I sincerely doubt they will be changing it back.

Regardless of what we say, it's their site and they'll do what they want. So long as merchants sell here, people will keep spending their money here.

It's the merchants that hold the ultimate trump card. Renderosity isn't an "art fan site"; it's a business and it's reason for existance is to make money. The forums and the galleries are just "extras" that they offer to keep us here in a community spending our money in their marketplace. If the MP failed to generate money, this site would have no purpose.

If the merchants move, so will the buyers obviously. If enough of them pull their products and go else where, Renderosity will have no choice but to take another look at what they've been doing.

However, I tend to believe that the changes and rules implemented earlier this month were done as a "feeler"... a way for Renderosity to test the water and to see what people say and do when confronted with gross change.

Not many merchants left (maybe one?). Also during the many threads created at that time, many merchants admitted that they get most of their sales from this site. So that pretty much paved the way for Renderosity to do what they like because they now know that merchants will keep their products here because this is the place they get most of their sales.

This was further cemented by the fact that other changes done in previous months/years obviously didn't affect their bottom line and the MP endured and merchants kept putting up stores and new products and people kept buying.

Like I said, it's the merchants that hold the ultimate trump card. Merchants with items for sale in the MP = people buying.... and Renderosity knows from past experience that people here are all talk and that the MP will endure this, as it has endured everything else Renderosity has thrown this sites way. For example, this site is the most grossly slow and sluggish site I've ever been on, yet people still buy and sell here. The site has changed gallery posting rules, yet people still buy and sell here. The site has changed promo image rules in the MP and merchants still stuck around and people are still buying and selling here.

Message edited on: 01/16/2006 22:55

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