Wow. Just have to say that if the Prime catastrophe and lately allotment of Gen3 content over any other figure didn't already push me away from purchasing from Renderosity, then this (banning a vendor for speaking her mind, and not one personal attack have I seen, and I have seen Shawn's posts) definitely would. Renderosity has been going downhill for a while. I used to buy so much here, getting the Render Rewards many times over the course of a year. Now, I only visit the site to upload to my gallery. And then I'll browse the store for a few minutes...only to find mostly G3 content that I cannot use (being a Poser-only user) and a lot of poor quality "other stuff".

Since the changes, Prime is a joke. I used to put back $12-$16 a month just to get a few Prime items off my wishlist. Back when all Prime products were $3.99. Now, I don't bother. I don't consider anything above $5 a "Prime" product, so don't bother spending the money, unless it's a quality product by a well-known vendor whom I follow. I kept my membership to see if Prime was ever going to return to it's glory days. So far, it hasn't. If it doesn't change back to what it was before by the time my membership expires, I won't be renewing. It's now become a waste of my money.

On top of all the bad changes Renderosity just keeps implementing is this one...no offsite links for fear their precious community might get a virus (as if we're all noobs on the internet and have no idea that a link, ANY link, can potentially be harmful)...and of course, for fear of losing a few bucks to another company. Well, when you have people already not spending because of the content that's available (or not available, as the case may be), and a mass exodus because the head honchos cannot figure out why their site is sinking and just keep implementing bad idea after bad idea, losing a few bucks to competition should be the least of worries.

And THEN, to ban a respected vendor because she spoke up about what is certainly NOT working to keep this site afloat...shakes head. Where is the Renderosity I loved back in the day? Sadly, it's all but sunk into the depths. And if the managers/admins cannot see this ship has pretty much sunk and start listening to the community they pledged to, there's no saving it.