I think we're finally seeing the shake out of poser content products. There are too few buyers, way too many people producing content, and tons of quality free items out there now.

Smaller stores are fading away, and bigger stores are doing back to back sales, and prices are spiralling downwards, even though sales volume is also going down, while quality workmanship is going up.

While that sounds great (short term) from a consumer standpoint, the reality it some quality artists can no longer afford to do this for a living , and have left, or moved up to higher end applications doing prefessional work.

Others have fallen into the "churn out th V4 skimpy outfit of the week" mentality, only producing items that still sell in numbers. Producing nitch items can be a killer now, unless its as a freebie release.

Some have moved on to other more profitable 3d content catagories,

Odds are, the pendulum will swing like this for the next year or so, and once the ranks have thinned out enough, it will swing back the other way.

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