I stop into these forums now once every few months or so. Just noticed this thread and I want to add that I too agree with EVERYTHING that has been said here. This site is going the way of many businesses, whoever it is making the bad decisions is just going to ride their bad idea directly into the ground.

I used to be very active here. Hell I would check in 2-3 times a day at least. Galleries, community, innovation, great prices and more - this site had it all.

Slowly it dwindled with excessive moderation. In fact I'm surprised this thread is still open. I'm sure many like me didn't appreciate not being able to express a valid complaint without it being shut down, locked and deleted. Me personally I figured I'd stop sharing all together.

The store now, I can't find a damn thing. I get in a poor mood immediately if I have to come here to purchase something because I know I will have to wade through pages of irrelevant results to find what I'm looking for. Also that Prime nonsense which I too will NEVER buy. Yet it is constantly being stuffed in my throat. Then you have product redundancy. Scripts to change material nodes and sell the same product over and over again. Ugh.

You'd think after all this time Renderosity would have it's own figure. How many great modelers came through the forums creating independent figures, figures with TONS of potential. Other companies were eager to get on this and many of the old names have been now hired by software companies or are even working with Smith Micro. With all the free money Rendo has gotten off vendor work (yeah I still think 50% is highway robbery even if it is the standard) you'd think they would have been able to invest something in continued viability and got behind a real versatile figure. So we aren't all stuck going to Daz because Poser figures just aren't keeping up.

Over all I'm very disappointed with the course things have taken. I've been giving this feedback for 9 years though. Nobody has listened yet and I don't imagine anyone will any time soon. There is still time and opportunity to change but I'm not holding my breath.

I am:  aka Velocity3d