Ah. Pity; the odds are strongly against me, then, because I only use G3/8 now, and I've bought over half of those items already. So the odds are I'd get an unusable V4 item.

I came to the forums with the same question, since the text of Nightfall (in the listing itself) specifically calls out 'choice', I wondered how it worked. I'll pick it up some time when the whole store's on sale, instead.

Greetings,

I let my Prime membership expire in early July due to frustrations with the RMP.  As far as I could tell before this thread (because of being locked out of the Prime forum), Prime is dead.  No new items since I left; not that my leaving has anything to do with it, it's just the timing is about perfect.

Given the already lower bar of quality here, and seller issues, I finally gave up my Prime membership and let it expire.  The $3.50 price was the only real draw, and even then there was a lot of chaff to wade through.  Clearance is worthless, at 35% or 55% off; I've bought some of those items, and they're worse than free: they cost you time to get to a marginally acceptable use.  Render rewards, at even 7%, are still a pittance.  You could have bought two 'prime' items for every $100 you spend, but if they're not $3.50 anymore, that's not even true.

The monthly coupon was very good, as long as you could find items where the sellers weren't trying to game the coupon by messing around with their intro pricing.

The Renderosity Marketplace doesn't have enough power with its sellers; they are allowed to do unpleasant pricing games (e.g. setting items to 1% off to avoid an 'everything-except sale items' coupon, releasing new items at 20% off, because RMP has a 10% off coupon for that weekend, not providing a new item discount at all, etc.).  The marketplace needs to clamp down on these bad seller behaviors, and have a consistent experience.  (In fairness, there were the opposite; sellers who turned off discounts so folks could use everything-except-sale coupons, and who actively advertised that discounts applied to their items without messing with the discount percentages.  The bad behaviors stick in your memory though, and leave a bad taste.)

I do wish these changes had been communicated to a wider audience, but all it would have done is cemented my choice to drop Prime.  I hope for the sake of folks still in Prime that these changes make things better, get higher quality items, and give RMP more control over the sellers that make it their home.

--  Morgan

Greetings,

@keppel - If you go to your messages (the 'Sitemail' inbox icon at the top of the screen), there may or may not be a message 'Renderosity Customer Notice' in your inbox.  This was apparently sent to everyone who made a credit card transaction on 'Rosity during the period of February 9th and March 18th of this year, which was the vulnerability window.  If you didn't make a purchase during that time, you're likely in the clear.  They don't explain in any detail how/where the breach occurred; they don't store credit card numbers themselves, but apparently there was a way for the bad guys to pull the credit card information from the checkout process itself.  They've left that detail unclear, and it's reasonable as I don't think we need the technical details.  (As much as I, as a software security developer, would love to know the gory details, I very much understand that choice.)

But the important thing is that if you DON'T have that email, then you are likely not exposed.

Personally, I'm nervous, as I used my replacement card once on the VERY last day of that time frame. :(

--  Morgan

Greetings,

Just got a bad charge of over $500 to something in greece on a card that I only use here, DAZ, and $5/mo to DigitalOcean for hosting.  I know how DAZ and DigitalOcean store card info; they do it by storing a 'card id' with the payment processor (who has major, major security), so they don't ever really handle the card numbers themselves, and I don't have to do anything.  Not a happy camper; the account had zero in it (I transfer money in to pay for 3D purchases), so they didn't get anything, but I'm going to have to replace it.  Just a few days ago I had to replace my main debit card, as it had several overseas and US charges pile up on it as well.  I also use that card here and on DAZ, but I use it about a million other places, so I had no real idea how it got compromised.

The one today has a lot smaller a surface area... :(

--  Morgan

[Edit: Just to note, I should say that the one today has only been used on those three places in the last (roughly) half-year.  If, for instance, it took this long for someone to finally get their hands on the cards from Hivewire3D, it's possible I may have used both cards on their over a year ago (I can't confirm, unfortunately).  It feels unlikely that it'd take this long for them to get attacked, though.]

Greetings,

But...it was released yesterday, wasn't it?  Bleh, whatever...I can't keep up.

And DM's store is 50% off anyway, so essentially we don't have a 'CG Spree' currently.

--  Morgan

Greetings,

What happened to this outfit?  It was on sale for 50% off last night, in the CG Spree section.  I was too tired to finish up the purchase, and this morning poof all gone.

And weren't DM's High Heels already 50% off?  What's going on?

--  Morgan

Greetings,

Help!  Is anybody listening anymore?

Images linked via thumbnail on items in the store are time-locked to 5 minutes after you've loaded the page!  So if I open up a dozen tabs, and then walk through them tab-by-tab, taking time to read and view the thumbnails, it's VERY possible that I won't even be able to load the images from the later tabs, and I'll have to reload.

Now I work with Amazon Web Services all the time, so I know exactly how this works, and it just annoys me.  But if I were not technically inclined, I'd click a thumbnail, it would partially pop-up, and then...it'd...just...hang there.  Because the JavaScript that you're using can't handle the refusal that AWS sends.  Because it doesn't even have the ability to let the user know, 'Oh, hey, we're terrified of folks hotlinking to our images, so we put a miniscule timeout on it.'

You absolutely must bump up your allowed time, and you should consider even getting rid of it at all.  There's no reason that I can't come back to an open item page a day or two later, and everything just work to click on the thumbnails, etc...  Breaking that is Very Bad Form.

I'm going to guess you had problems with people directly linking to your images and using a few dollars of the amazingly cheap cost of S3 per month, but there are significant ways to avoid that, that do not absolutely demolish your customer interactivity.

For example, S3 allows for referer(sp!)-based restriction, so you could eliminate your delay entirely and restrict access by a renderosity.com referrer.

This has been frustrating me since the changeover; at first I didn't understand what was going on (thought it was local connectivity failures), but once I looked at the image links, it's just making me more annoyed.  Please, PLEASE, fix this!

But I've reported other bugs (since the first, which was promptly fixed, and thank you!), and not heard a peep.  I wish you had a real bug tracker, so that we could at least know, 'Wont Fix', or something...

--  Morgan

Greetings,

Is there a more formal place to report marketplace bugs?

You have a long-standing bug that the ONLY items that deliver email notifications on price changes are Prime items.  I'm fairly sure the algorithm should be inverted, and only notifying of price changes on non-Prime items.

I can document it, etc., but I couldn't find an official bug reporting location, and this thread has devolved somewhat.  (Also it's not new to the new store.)

--  Morgan

Greetings,

Okay, this is a significant bug:

Viewing the Prime category, page three: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/?TopID=&Prime=Y&page_number=3

If you reload, you get a different set of objects.  In fact, there's no way to know you've seen a complete set of all the 'Classic Prime' objects that have been added, because as you move from page to page, some items will appear on the next page that were on the previous page.

This requires a secondary sort on top of the set-to-prime-at date, which is what it's apparently sorting on right now.

--  Morgan

[Edit: It appears that there may be a certain consistency, as if you stored a cached version of the page, only it's a different cached version for each of your web servers, so different reloads get directed to a different server which serves up a different cached version.  Still a bug. :( ]

Greetings,

Quote - > Quote - Please add:

white-space: nowrap

to the dates in the item list.  Below a window-width of 1470 pixels, they wrap unpleasantly in my display.  An example image is below.  This is not a major problem, but it IS a bug, and it is one that is easily fixed.

--  Morgan

This should be corrected now.  Please take a look and let me know if it is better for you.

Thanks

Much better, thank you very much!  The updated dates are wrong, but you know that already, and I'll just presume anything updated on those dates...wasn't. :) In other news, I have stopped browsing 'rosity on my smartphone, and browsing it on my iPad is uncomfortable, but those are matters of taste, not outright bugs.

Change is in the wind everywhere these days, and it's never comfortable.  I don't think these changes have been for the better, all told, but I'm fairly confident that you'll know from your own statistics whether it drives more sales or not, which is in the end all that matters.

I wish you the best of luck with the site upgrade!

--  Morgan

Please add:

white-space: nowrap

to the dates in the item list.  Below a window-width of 1470 pixels, they wrap unpleasantly in my display.  An example image is below.  This is not a major problem, but it IS a bug, and it is one that is easily fixed.

--  Morgan

Greetings,

Apparently it's been too long, and I don't get to edit my post, but I wanted to add a major props after giving you some guff above...

Thank you VERY much for the big green 'Purchased' button at the top of items I've already bought!  Similarly the note that an item is in my wishlist already is very much appreciated!

--  Morgan

Greetings,

So...I browse the site on mobile, and it looks absolutely horrible on mobile. I'm sure you're not done rolling out the changes, but...well, it's pretty bad.

I get what you're going for, putting the content front-and-center, big thumbnails, etc., and it's not a bad idea, but please spend some time making sure that what you're delivering is as useable on Android and iPhone also.

Also get yourself the Chrome extension 'Spectrum' and try using the site with some of the color blindness options.

--  Morgan

Greetings,

I use G2 Male and Female almost exclusively these days, and the HD morphs when I can (my laptop doesn't like them, but my desktops are happy to chug through them).

I'm really happy to see a larger volume of G2F content showing up here as well.

As a counter-point, DAZ has been constantly updating their older content (as in stuff that is anywhere from relatively recent to five plus years old) with free updates to metadata, and in some cases fixing up textures that aren't working right with DAZ Studio, and if you have the DAZ Install Manager the updates just show up.  They also, at least recently, have been on top of fixes for new content when issues crop up.

The 'Victoria 4 for Genesis 2 Female by MallenLane' is an excellent package if you've got a large library of legacy model content that you'd like to use on G2F.  If you have shapes or morph-poses you want to transfer over, Dimension3D's GenX2 software and conversion packages are top notch, just be aware that it's a complex problem, and his software reflects that.

I don't use Poser, though, so keep that in mind if you're a dedicated Poser user.

--  Morgan

Greetings,

I would love to hear of any plans to sell a G2F (or Dawn, although less likely) module for Posemaster!

--  Morgan