Vendor's leaving Daz?

[Ethiopia]

I got an email last night from Rendo welcoming Lilflame.
I don't pay attention to who's selling where, but this is the second notification I've gotten from Rendo regarding a well known vendor, who I thought was selling at Daz, now selling at Rendo.

[yngvarr]

In this case, just the opposite is true. She moved from rendo to daz.

[Elim]

I noticed that her assets were now on daz3d (and after looking that she hasn't put anything on rendo for a few weeks)

There is also a thread on daz3d forums about vendors moving and the potential of double purchases.

[mxyzptlk]

Renderosity now only rewards the top, top tippity top tier vendors. No real reason to stay there, let alone be exclusive. Not surprised there are vendors fleeing. Although, Daz has a habit of being late...sometimes VERY...with payments.

[Feymarcher]

Others worth noting (or you might have missed):

Fabiana also moved a good chunk of her catalog from Rendo over, though a lot of the older items pre-Genesis 8 aren't there.

Pamawo also closed up shop at Rendo months ago and is now re-releasing some older items (Scherezade set) with G9 support added.

Deecey (one of the LaFemme 1 creators) left as well and now has some stuff up at Daz, but I don't think she's posted anything new in a long time.

Hameleon/SaggitariusA seemingly bounced from Renderosity to RenderHub, too. Same with STZ/ATX, Muwawya, and probably a few others but idc to look.

Makes you wonder who else is going to be leaving or posting new stuff. I suspect Dzheng might be another one to jump ship by the end of the year either to Daz or RenderHub, but you'll know something's not right if Rhiannon leaves Renderosity.

Which then begs the question: What the hell is going on over at Renderosity?

As for vendors leaving Daz, idk if it would count but LadyLittlefox has pretty much stopped doing 3D model/Daz stuff (she hasn't uploaded anything new in ages) and has moved on to making cross-stitch plushies IRL.

[Grouchy Old Fart]

Renderosity has a habit of shooting itself in the foot every 5 years or so with some new and boneheaded policy - you could almost set a calendar to it.

[eelgoo]

Pretty much the same as Daz really!

They both seem to propogate delusional self important marketing policies.

:0/

[Feymarcher]

They both seem to propogate delusional self important marketing policies.

Well, you're not wrong. Daz's is scummier but at least theirs is a semi-transparent scumminess.

Rendo must've done something really unappealing behind the scenes if longtime stalwarts like Liliflame and Fabiana moved most of their back catalog to Daz or Daz offered them a significant amount of cash. Or both.

Also checked Fabiana's store and wow, she moved all the newer content and left the G3-and-older up on Rendo. If any of you have her older stuff, I'd strongly suggest archiving that shit now before she suddenly vaults her entire storefront there. Same with Lilflame, too.

[eelgoo]

It is likely the season will change again in a few months time & they will migrate back, or elsewhere.
It can be quite transient.

🙂

[moffet]

Lilflame has been at Daz since the merger with RDNA and all their products from RDNA moved to Daz. That's not new, and they are still selling at Rendo

But then again, the vendors are moving back and forths so much, it's hard to keep up. By now I think most products have been the full round through all the brokerages.. 😀

[Sameen]

I may be imagining things but what really concerns me here is the fact that Daz seems to apply pressure to the artists to produce content for G9 only, if these artists bend to this pressure it will be a loss to the 'Few' of us still using earlier generations and the artists bank accounts I would imagine.

[dot_dot_dot_dot]

You’re not imagining things.

On the 744 new released items on Daz, 495 are for G9 and only 74 are for G8.

Of those 74 items: 15 are poses, 12 are hairs and the rest are mostly accessories like jewelry and shoes. You have a few clothes and 1 or 2 characters. Sue Yee is the only exception still consistently making clothing for G8F

[Ethiopia]

Thanks everyone for cluing me in. I really gotta pay more attention when I get stuff from Rendo or Daz.
In some respects I don't see that it makes much difference where a vendor sells anymore since I don't see either of the brokerages being around in a coup'la more years. They both are becoming increasingly stupid and desperate.

[eelgoo]

There is much stronger support for G8 at 'Rosity & 'Hub.

There are quite a few vendors that tried G9 didn't like it & went back to G8, because they know that sells.

🙂

[Ethiopia]

Another email overnight and THIS time I read it, vice just glancing quickly.
It seems that someone named 'Wolfie' is now at Daz.

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