I agree.. also it looks like the board was flat uv mapped, not even unwrapped, so you couldn't texture it properly.. note the wood grain texture running stretching along the side of the board borders.

Successful commercial releases have to offer unique creative talent across the board (no pun intended), from modelling, to textureing, to rigging, to uv mapping for best use.

Can the stickied parts have the tack fall out, and the note drift down? Can they be rearranged with a few dial twists for a different appearance? Does the board have poser rigging, so notes can be easily hidden, or relocated?

A board could be a static prop, OR it could actually have a lot of features build in.

A good example, is the freebie cashew I did for someone last year over at Rawart.... I could have just made it a statci massaged sphere, but as a joke, I uv unqwrapped it, and rigged it up with scaling and translation built in, and even tossed in a few morphs as well!

The trick to a reall good product release is not to just offer the basic possibility, but to go above and beyond, and offer as many features as possible, and include unique features.

I would expect n something like this:

smart prop additional notes

smartprop tacks, and mat poses for many tack colors including clear

a good selection of varied textures available for posted items.. and a complete calendar set for calendar months

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.