At first I thought, the reviving of artzone aimed at concurring with DeviantArt. But now, after the shop has appeared it seems clear that artzone's main purpose was to concentrate more merchandise under the reign of DAZ. Or to say in other words, to make more money. Nothing wrong with that, but like Anton said, there may be some snags. And I still don't get, why DAZ  creates a whole new playground just to sell more different items. 

I'm not a vendor, so I will only have to decide, if I use the site or not. At the current state, I don't like it very much. I registered, when it first came out and deleted my account soon after, because the place looked like yahoo groups and/or a dating site. Now I've registered again and the whole site still looks like yahoo groups and not very safe to me. At the moment, I don't know, why I should frequent it.

About the TOS: at DAZ was a discussion about pretty ridiculous gallery terms. It was like, if you post an image at artzone they will own your soul or a pound of your flesh. ;) Don't know if they changed these terms by now.