CrazyDawg opened this issue on Jun 24, 2006 · 37 posts
PJF posted Sat, 24 June 2006 at 5:31 AM
Quote - i suggest you change the site name from Renderosity.com to Renderposer.com.
Er, they already changed it - from Poserforum.com to Renderosity.com.
The reason there's so much Poser stuff here is because the place started out as the first and best Poser users' forum on the web. It was founded by Poser users, and built by Poser users for Poser users. Even when ownership was "transferred" from the founders to the people who hosted the domain, it remained a Poser site.
The new (current) owners have diversified to some extent and even changed the name, but the momentum of the Poser stuff is enormous. And that Poser momentum is what keeps the site afloat. Poser users buy stuff. Loads of stuff. They buy so much stuff that several companies are in business providing products, stores and brokering services.
Renderosity has always been one of those companies. That's what it does. It provides attractive online facilities to draw people to the store, and the store pays for the attractive online facilities (and makes a profit). Hardly anyone buys Bryce stuff here and I don't think anyone at all buys photography stuff here; it's the Poser buyers who keep the money rolling in to pay for the Bryce and photography forums and galleries.
So lap it up. You're getting a free ride. Write back to the admin and tell 'em you think it's a great idea having the Poser users pay for all the free services you're enjoying; and can they please think up ways to keep that happening for as long as possible.