adamthwaites opened this issue on Aug 21, 2009 · 400 posts
Inception8 posted Thu, 19 November 2009 at 11:00 PM
My first reaction to the new system was that I was shocked then I got use to it and I actually prefer it this way because it makes perfect sense to keep people drawn to Renderosity HERE which alot of you people just don't seem to get really ESPECIALLY if you're a vendor here.
Shame.
Simply because you're USING Renderosity's traffic to draw to your own sites through freebies. Which is essentially the real reason why anyone would be complaining in the first place. Freebies are in fact great for the site they have some people drawing power to the site itself but for people to be so obnoxious. Don't bite the hand that feeds.
There's an old saying that you shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth. Before it was probably great but like any business keeping customers and people on the site is an essential part of running one and if I were Renderosity as a whole entity the benefit is for Renderosity as a whole rather than the benefit of the sum of it's individual(s) parts.
Although having control over which products I could list with the freebie content would be kinda nice especially IF it was something that actually went with the product itself that would work hand in hand as well for potential purchases via the freebie. It just makes sense.
Although some of the finer points are good (in parts of the petition) the overall decision to keep the freebie content on Renderosity is a pretty wise and sound decision FOR Renderosity as a business.
My vote is AGAINST for the most part like my little tiny voice matters in the grand scheme of things. I'm here for myself but I'm also here for Renderosity. Where the heck else would I go. I'm lucky this place is alive. And more than a few should be too for the most part. I just wish for the amount of few freebie downloads I get which are way up in the hundreds that it actually helped MY sales even though I love giving stuff away as much as I love making stuff and selling it too.
Some people are overly obnoxious and self important, it's just sad.
Ok I'm done. I may have missed a few things and maybe I don't completely get it, still being quite new to the whole thing, but I can gather the jist of things pretty good through brief but careful observations. At any rate I certainly won't be going anywhere.
I'm not even sure why I bothered commenting. Maybe it was because I was shaking my head reading alot of things and felt the desire and the need.