in so long that places like the community forum etc. seem to have fallem by the wayside. Most of you don't know who I am now but at one time I was fairly active here. I will likely get in s**t for this but has anyone noticed that the freebie stuff lately seems to have overtaken a lot of the marketplace stuff in quality and artistic development lately? Now I have been a member here for a long long time and have held my thoughts etc. but it seems to me that when the whole place has been turned around from being a site where we can share ideas and concepts and those who are talented making models for those of us who are not great at it tried to provide the best that they can do rather than "how much can I sell it for" then I have to say I don't like the way it is here anymore. This used to be a community but it now has become a "business" where the concept is not how good you are as a creator or artist or visionary but how much can I make off my endeavor at learning and doing what I do? I actually miss the old days(and I never thought I would say that when it was the Poser Forums site and Bondware was strictly the server setup that was the space provider because I never ever got along with the people) who had the original Poser site. Most of you weren't here then and don't know the history behind this whole phenomenom of Poser but there are still a few of you left who remember and know what I am talking about. Anyway to make a long story short, the quality of the models in the marketplace are not even close to what they used to be and Poser is once again becoming the "joke" that 3DS people and Lightwave users always said it was. Some of the old members here remember me and know I must be PO'd to make this post but if they think back to what it used to be like they will have to agree with me at least partially that what I am saying is true. Poser is one of the truly great innovations in computer graphics and it saddens me to think that it has turned so commercial that one who makes a model of an apple expects to get paid for it especially when thewre are so many other models out there of an apple for free(and I do make a lot of my own models but I give them away fro free to my friends rather than sell them). Well thats my rant for this year. Hope no one takes offense at it but if you do so be it.
Nick(Beelzebulb)