Quote - > Quote - I can tell you from when I was a tester a few years back, much more than just file path errors and missing textures are tested.  We were expected to test the actual product for usability, and the review team reviews it for marketability before it even gets to testing.  Just FYI ;)

From my experience, it is just not the same level of QC. Yes, Renderosity tests for pathes and such (nevertheless, I got a product with wrong paths more than once) and they check, for example, for all advertised features (like morphs) to be actually in pack and spinning with some result. But Renderosity doesn't appear to test for -quality- of those features. Once I got a product where morphs looked like they were translated with a help of Morphing Clothes with obviously no manual tune-up from a side of the vendor. Promos was done in such a cleaver way that it wasn't obvious from pictures (promos are always like that).
The result looked awful. I coudn't use the product and I coudn't ask for refund, because, technically, the product had the announced feature. It is just that quality of that feature was bad and QC/QA didn't bother to work with vendor to fix it before the release, because, FWIK, it isn't a purpose of testing on this marketplace.
Comparatively with the quality of testing of DAZ3D it isn't the same level. Sure, DAZ3D has mishaps sometimes, but very rarely on my memory in rate of total items and I can always ask for refund if I don't like the quality. So what with the 50/50% cut for that low level testing and no technical support from Renderosity? Not understandable to me.

Both sites don't test for DS quality either.   When I buy things from both sites, I still have to reset speculars and ambients.  In Poser, everything looks great and shine naturally, and come out nice and colorful.  In DS, they come out looking "BLAH".  I mean, come on, specular set on black, 100% strength and at 97% glossiness while ambient set at black at 100% and no bump effects whatsoever??  Those are called DS mats???  Put lights on those things and you'll see a tiny barely lit spark on their skins/clothes.  Stupid, stupid stupid.

Renderosity, to my understanding, don't EVEN touch DS testing and I get a lot of missing/mis located files from DS mats (which I contact the vendors to let them know since Rendo won't do anything about it).

Us DS users are screwed and STILL stuck with resetting mat settings whether we buy anything at non-DS stores or the main DS store.  It totally sucks as a DS only user.

This is why I've been offering so many vendors to do DS mats for them.  My stuff look real and render nicely under good lights.  And when I do them, I put them under many lights and test them and make sure they load fine.

...wolfie