CrystalGames posted at 2:49PM Sat, 09 January 2016 - #4248068

Wow, yeah, vendors don't listen to your customers, or potential customers.

Listen to a small, but vocal vendor for the competition. That will help this forum and community.

Right DesignAnvil/Razor42?

There might be some truth to this, but think its a simplified version. Not all vendors are able or desire certain content. For instant i would like to be able to make different characters and sell them, have loads of ideas, so that's not the problem. But creating high quality models that can compete with the current ones is not easy, i currently don't have those skills, so even if i wanted to do it. I know it wouldn't end well, also there is a lot of rigging, texturing and so on. It takes a lot of time to create content and as vendor you can't spend to much time screwing around on things which have no potential. So all vendors will most likely reach there limit at some point. Some times I think people make it sound like vendors can just nap there fingers and create a crazy looking alien model like it was nothing, but they choose not to do it, because they don't care about potential customers or they ran out of ideas. Its just not that simple.

Another side to it is that you might risk spending X amount of time creating a product, for instant lets say for the "Poser 8 dog", but if that is not a popular model your product won't sell either, so you ended up wasting a lot of time. Now this might be ok, if it weren't for the fact that a product will go clearance if it haven't sold in 3 month, so even if you as vendor think a product would be good just for a few people, its not really beneficial or very desired to see a product that you made, well knowing its not going to be a "Top" product end it days on clearance, not because it might not be a good product that would have interested for few people once in a while, but simply because it doesn't sell as much as Renderosity need/want it to.

So you also have to take that into consideration, so I honestly don't think its because vendors don't listen to the community or wouldn't like to make stuff that is only relevant for a minority of people. But the time to make an item that aim towards the minority, doesn't equal that its faster to make than something that is not. So how much time will you spend on something that potentially could end up on clearance in 4-5 month with very poor sale numbers? Now if items did not go on clearance then i think you would see more varied products, because the vendor wouldn't have to be as concerned about there products as they are now.

Anyway, thats just my view on it as a vendor, its just a bit discouraging that we are being pointed out as not caring about what people say, its just not that simple.