ronstuff opened this issue on Dec 09, 2001 ยท 62 posts
andix posted Mon, 10 December 2001 at 1:54 PM
Attached Link: http://www.3dmodelz.com
I think certain people, (and I won't mention names,as I have no desire to get involved in personal attack and retaliation) have missed the point, and are applying selective blindness to parts of this arguement. Greybro has pointed out that free stuff on his site is exclusive to members only for the first week of its release. And then it's available for anonymous download. With a site that is growing fast, I don't see how Greybro can put a link to each and every download. I know we can't, because we have over 200 free downloads, and surely if we linked to each and every one, that would constitute spamming, which I'm damn sure is not allowed under 'Rositys TOS. As for the competition issue, we will soon have an operational store. This is not to try and steal the market from Renderosity, Daz, 3dcafe or anyone. The purpose of our store, is to fund the massive amount of web space and bandwidth that a site such as ours requires. This is because we host all our own downloads. And the 50% commission is just a teeny bit steep, that effectively means we've got to sell twice as much, just to realise the same amount. Therefore, to get at the 200+ free models that we have, we have to send people to our site to browse for the download they are looking for. However, our link in the free section states "200 free models, free textures and more". So you can't honestly believe that would link to A (singular) file......? As for Greybro, I personally see nothing wrong with what he's doing. To quote an earlier comment, if you don't like what you see, then move on....it's only a click away.