Promises and other stuff aside, selling PE just at one store hurts PE. I doubt that it really helps the store. I bought PE there and was gone seconds later.

There are a lot of people who don't post at the forums, proably don't read much here and won't even see that a new figure is out. If you cannot reach this people, they won't buy stuff for PE, and the market share will stay at the Antonia level - nearly none. So releasing PE just at CGbytes will send them a couple of bucks for selling them, but from my pont of view it is likely that a lot of potential customers just won't see PE. They won't buy it.

@Blackhearted, I understand your problems with Ero. Still, other people may just like the product and either don't know the facts ( I did not from your first post ) or do not care where PE is sold. Calling them cronies does not nessesarily strengthen your point.

So, if you question Ero's ethics, what should be the consequences? Should we ignore PE, even if it's a great figure? Should we praise it, but call Ero names? (This one is probably against the TOS, though)

@Ero, PE doesn't have much stuff for it right now. In my opinion, as a former Rendo mod who had to check the galleries and look at a lot of picures there,, I think that there are lot of "Make Art Button" renders. There are people who click a figure, click an outfit, click a Pose, a Light and a Background. Your description on how clothes should be converted is very good, IMHO, but I doubt that they will try it. You need those people to buy PE if you want PE to become a popular figure. That won't happen if you cannot convince the content creators to support it. Just saying. Others may thing the same thing as BH, but won't say it loudly in the forum. PE is now out for a while and I see the beautifull stuff that Karanta has done. Sadly, her clothes need the Cloth room, so they are too complicated to use for a lot of people. So if there is a problem with any content creator, including Blackhearted, try to fix it. Just my opinion.

We don't need another niche figure with minimal support. It seems to me that CGbytes cannot provide it, way to few new releases. Zero new stuff for PE there. If you really want to support them, sell the figure everywhere and send them a share. Just my opinion.

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