randym77 posted at 3:38PM Wed, 07 April 2021 - #4416379

zxcv posted at 6:51AM Wed, 07 April 2021 - #4416262

Just curious -- all these 3d content providers getting sucked into Rendo -- is this becoming a monopoly? I noticed they've taken over Hivewire, and it seems that a lot of prices went up.

I don't think it's a monopoly so much as the Poser market is shrinking. A lot of sites just can't sustain themselves any more. Many of us who remain now have so much stuff for Poser we don't need to buy a lot.

A lot of the former Hivewire vendors are participating in Renderosity's regular 50% off sales, plus there are the two yearly 50% off sales that apply to everything. Some vendors might be setting their prices a little higher to offset that. Though I haven't noticed it myself.

I don't think it's shrinking as much as "condensing". Hivewire's a good case in point. They didn't quit or go out of business. Instead, they decided to concentrate on content development for Dusk and Dawn and the HiveWire animals. They decided to let Renderosity handle the transactional business. As a result, more vendors came over to renderosity, a few went rogue, and some went to Daz and CGBytes. So, yeah, you have one less store, but the same number of vendors.