Quote - With the exception of the one guy at TurboSquid I sure would like to know where all these "mesh thieves"  are selling all these stolen meshes at.  Since for me I'm only aware of a couple stores where the traffic is high enough to make any money at all off of something.

In all the rush to praise the generosity of freebie providers and immediately silence anyone who offers  up any critique on the process we seem to forget what the freebie provider does get - name recognition - which = up to $$ in the marketplace so I hear. 

I think then that it is reasonable that the consumer ask for changes if those changes are warranted.  Which in this situation that has caused many to stop utilizing the freebies at all I think that they are warranted. 
I apologize for my audacity Ill get my shrine back up in short order :p

Noone is trying to hush up 'any critique on the process' as you are suggesting.
There's a huge difference between beligerent rants and constructive critique.

Your post is a good example of what I intensely dislike.
Unless freebie providers put up with lashing out and putdowns and beligerance because of any idiosynchracies of their 'freebies', people act like we insist to be held on a pedestal.

I thought just few posts ago you were talking about how you don't like negativity, but yet you are defending it and helping proliferate it. Make up your mind, will ya?

It's simple, if I'm going to be yelled at and have to listen to put downs (like your quoted post - that was anything but constructive critique) for offering freebies, I won't offer them any more. Especially not any that intend to offer in the spirit of sharing.
As for marketing pieces to help sales, there's plenty of top sellers in the marketplace whom don't offer any freebies. It helps a little bit when you're new, but it's not a necessity.

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