Do you really believe that someone who doesn't pay for the program will come and buy content rather than looking for pirated content online? And having a phone home feature allows the 21 day free trial, in my mind a good idea to attract new users. So you had a problem once on switch over, or maybe later. Once sorted there should be no further problems, to say this destroyed your fun sounds a bit like saying you enjoy driving but the car broke down once so you now no longer like driving and are going to take the bus, a bit of an over reaction.

And your point about Rendo and clearance . From what I understand it is now up to vendors if items goes into clearance, while with DAZ items just disappear from the store with no warning. I've had this with items in my wish list and also when I've wanted to refer to store page of items I've purchased.

I understand that some people do not want their machines connected to the internet for security reasons but I do believe some of posts hear are going over the top.,