bobstuyck opened this issue on Jan 28, 2009 · 152 posts
Morkonan posted Wed, 28 January 2009 at 3:30 PM
Quote - Ok, I'm going to step in here.
Now, currently, the only thing I have to do with the MP here is that I have one product in it. Other than that, I have nothing to do with anything that goes in or their policies.That being said...
How do you think Renderosity would be able to pay for the server space, bandwidth, even the electricity to run this site right now without the MP? The Poser gallery alone exceeds 50 uploads a day. The forum is bustling. Not to mention the fact that Renderosity is housed in a building, where rent needs to be paid, and employees at their physical site are paid. The aim isn't to make a profit. The aim is to keep Renderosity from going out of business.
I alluded to that in my post but would like to expand upon it. Just my two coppers...
Renderosity DOES want to provide a venue for artists to sell their wares. HOWEVER, what exactly do they have to do in order to provide that "service" for vendors? They have to host the products, they have to pay for the bandwidth that a store browser may use up clicking on that product's link, they have to be able to support that product, they have to set it up in the marketplace and they may even have to set up a new vendor account, get that squared away, verify the info, etc... All of that is before the product even sells one copy. For all of that, they then must make enough off of sales to justify those expenses and still have some left over for operations and, gasp, a little bit of profit if they can fit it in.
Of course, there's also the fact that once it is in the store, it's going to sit around like luggage for however long Rendo's policy is on hosting products. So, everytime they accept a product it's a "hundred year child" in a sense. Rendo's runtime is constantly bloated and they're going to be forced to keep it online just in hope that it will sell a few copies and pay for itself. Otherwise, it's an opportunity cost they'll never recoup.
Quote - Welcome to the real world, where in order for a store to take your stuff, they have to want it.
I saw the product. I'm not sure if you did or not. It's pretty obvious why it was not desired. The "resources used" list was almost as long as the contents list. There were 32 line item entries in Third party packages used in the creation of the product.
I can play "Paper Dollie" too. But, as you suggested, I am not sure how many times Renderosity is going to want to sell repacks of other Artist's work.