CP needs some help with quality too.
CP's biggest issue is navigation being so clunky, followed by the appearance overall of the website.
Quality is another one, yes, but I basically treat CP as a big flea market. Just like an open air flea market, you have to sift through the rubble to find the gems. They are there, but they require a lot of sifting to find. They also historically requires much lower price points, which is one of the reasons I was originally selling there.
The final nail in the coffin for me, though, and this is why I almost NEVER buy there, is their policy with expiring downloads of content you've purchased. Sorry, that's a deal-breaker for me. Yes, even with multiple backups.
CP would need to get on board with the rest of the Poser/Daz markets in terms of their downloadable purchases before I would ever consider buying from them on a regular basis. The only things I pick up from them are things I really need, and cannot find ANYWHERE else, and then they promptly get backed up to my various backup HDs, because I refuse to pay a fee just to have a STILL-expiring download date that happens to be a little longer than the default expiration.
So.. yeah. CP is not ideal... they'd need to really rework their policies and their site to get a lot of business from me.
I'm really sad about this... I actually liked RDNA. A lot. I liked the much darker themes... I have a couple of Gen4 items that I used to sell on CP, that I don't think I could even submit here, because of the PG rating. I love this place, but with the PG rating it kind of blocks out my ability to submit a few of my items here. And folks like Mor-V or Sixus1 would have a VERY difficult time making the rating without damaging the feel of their products.
Exactly. I have quite a bit of anxiety over this actually, because if you read a little between the lines, they seem excited about the end of their website. I cannot believe that they have any true idea of what the outcome of this will be. I just feel sad for the artists and vendors who called that site home, many who may now find themselves cut adrift.
I don't believe their sugar and milk approach for even one moment, Aether. That's their public game-face. It's the PR campaign. It is not in any way representative of the people behind it, IMO. They have GOT to know just WHAT Daz is going to do to their ten years worth of hard work. There's no way they would have survived even THIS long if they weren't intelligent individuals.
It's too bad. It really is. But like it's been mentioned before in this thread... maybe, MAYBE this COULD be an opportunity to open things up a bit more and get some of this content back out into the large community pasture, instead of locking it all up inside of a couple of secure barns.
Just my take on it. But then I'm
trying to find a positive in all of this somewhere, so maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part.
I appreciate them very, very much -- great to see all of you, too.
and if I became a vendor, there would probably be many things I could not sell here
