As an American I respect your right to dissent! And yeah everyone in all of Poserdom knows that Greybro's opinion is the only one there is. Come on, the 3rd person thing is a joke for crying out loud. Why so serious?

You have a valid point on their forum going away and for the record I too see big problems with their recent changes. They have essentially done away with the superior percentage to the artist concept by more or less requiring you to place all of your items to Premium or else be buried in a sea of content. They really killed the one thing they did have over Renderosity IMHO under the guise of offering more tools. Their vendor tools still fall far short of Rendo's, but oh now they get a bigger split anyways.

I'm just kind of going on the way I percieve things here so I reserve the right to be completely wrong on this point. Even though CP is the sales storefront for the owners of Poser, I still do not think it's thought of as THE establishment in terms of where most people will default to make their purchases at. although considering that new comers may not know of Rendo or Daz, perhaps I'm wrong on that.

Clearly their site is the only one that has such a focus on supporting the included content that comes with Poser, the G2 figures for instance.

As far as Smith Micro "grinding people up and spitting them out like they are just resources to feed on " as you put it, I have yet to witness this behavior. They hold a smaller market share than Rendo and Daz and thusly are probably always under pressure to enhance their earnings to stay afloat. Add to that the expense of keeping Poser alive. Most of us would like to see a Poser 8 someday and that kind of development is costly. I can forgive them seeking to increase the profits from their brokerage.

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