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GLBdid Renderosity go under
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Fire AngelFri, Apr 10
dim35Fri, Apr 10
Fire AngelFri, Apr 10
stevenjoseph8844Fri, Apr 10
Fire AngelFri, Apr 10
dim35Fri, Apr 10
Are you on a VPN? I had to cycle through various locations on mine until it stopped blocking me.
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dim35
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Tue, Mar 03Thank you for letting me know what the problem is. I sent them a message from my smart phone.
G3 Renderworks
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Tue, Mar 03Let me know what they say; I imagine it's intentional. A lot of websites are blocking VPN traffic now.
dim35
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Tue, Mar 03Will do. So far, no reply except for their daily advertising email.
You know, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense for them to do this intentionally. A lot of their talent has been pulled away and their sales are down. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to further limit your sales by restricting access to long time consistent buyers. But hey, what do I know.
You know, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense for them to do this intentionally. A lot of their talent has been pulled away and their sales are down. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to further limit your sales by restricting access to long time consistent buyers. But hey, what do I know.
G3 Renderworks
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Tue, Mar 03Thanks for the update. So far It's been working for me since initially switching VPN servers. Hopefully it doesn't become a recurring issue.
Yeah, I've been having trouble accessing Renderosity recently, too. If I turn off my VPN, I can get in; if I leave it on, I get the "403 Forbidden" error. The story I got from reading their forums was that they had recently updated some of their infrastructure, and that they were having some teething issues with it that they were working to fix. The issues are known and are being dealt with.
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dim35
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Tue, Mar 03Thank you. They need to get their act together. First they lost many of their top contributors which greatly reduced the stuff that I was interested in buying and now I can't even see their site which means the few things that I would buy, I can not even see. Thanks again for the info.
Nope, still broken for me 2026.03.02 @ 1850 U.S. West Coast.
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dim35
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Tue, Mar 03I use to buy a lot of stuff from them but now this is my number one place to shop. It's the only place that I can continue to buy new G8 stuff. Every place else has migrated almost exclusively to selling G9 stuff.
They seem to have gone over to a very cheap tier of service and there's just lots and lots of downtime now.
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Bobb
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Tue, Mar 03We could start a pool. Everyone throws a few bucks into a pot and takes a guess at when Rendo finally goes under. The closest guess gets the money.
Quote:We could start a pool. Everyone throws a few bucks into a pot and takes a guess at when Rendo finally goes under. The closest guess gets the money.
The Renderosity marketplace is nothing more than a discount outlet store for Daz Genesis products.
And the rest of the website is probably surviving off of running ads along with revenue they're getting from the Daz content sales in their marketplace.
As long as these two resources continue to exist, renderosity could technically operate indefinitely.
I cannot really imagine that Poser is a profitable software at this point.
It's probably surviving on a 100%. subsidy from the Genesis content sales made in the marketplace.
These are very tough times for the 3D market right now, particularly with prefab Humanoid content.
Every ecosystem( gaming,3DCC's) have their own 3D content markets so any notion of of selling
your humanoid 3d figures outside of your core user base is utter fantasy no matter what export plugins
you may offer.
Reallusion is struggling as well and has shifted completely away from individual hobbyist film & game Dev animators and is aggressively marketing towards businesses and industries, Hoping that they will buy or rent their suite of software to use in creating internal training videos.
The Renderosity marketplace is nothing more than a discount outlet store for Daz Genesis products.
And the rest of the website is probably surviving off of running ads along with revenue they're getting from the Daz content sales in their marketplace.
As long as these two resources continue to exist, renderosity could technically operate indefinitely.
I cannot really imagine that Poser is a profitable software at this point.
It's probably surviving on a 100%. subsidy from the Genesis content sales made in the marketplace.
These are very tough times for the 3D market right now, particularly with prefab Humanoid content.
Every ecosystem( gaming,3DCC's) have their own 3D content markets so any notion of of selling
your humanoid 3d figures outside of your core user base is utter fantasy no matter what export plugins
you may offer.
Reallusion is struggling as well and has shifted completely away from individual hobbyist film & game Dev animators and is aggressively marketing towards businesses and industries, Hoping that they will buy or rent their suite of software to use in creating internal training videos.
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Renderosity recently had huge technical problems after installing new software that was intended to improve site security. It certainly blocked hacking attempts because many people could not access the site at all, getting lots of 404 and 405 errors and "Bad Gateway" messages or timeouts. Things should improve now that their techs understand the settings better. The huge problems I was having just getting pages to load a few weeks ago have gone, and recently I have had no trouble accessing the site. If you do have problems please let them know either on their forums (if you can get onto them), or by emailing their support people. They do take notice if customers can't access the site because they want to stay in business.
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dim35
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Fri, Apr 10I'm in now but if I couldn't reach their site, how would I be able to email them?
Fire Angel
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Fri, Apr 10Oh, I forgot that they took their support email address away, so you have to use their web form now rather than proper email. Once you get in please let them know what happened, the more reports they have the more easily they can work out how to fix the problem.
stevenjoseph8844
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Fri, Apr 10Here's what I don't get... The parent company for Renderosity is Bondware.
Bondware is a company that (according to their own website) "has been providing websites for online communities since 1999".
If that's the case, you'd think they would be on top of this stuff, but they're obviously not. The technical problems with Renderosity sure don't make Bondware look too good.
Bondware is a company that (according to their own website) "has been providing websites for online communities since 1999".
If that's the case, you'd think they would be on top of this stuff, but they're obviously not. The technical problems with Renderosity sure don't make Bondware look too good.
Fire Angel
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Fri, Apr 10Bondware has never been a great choice in my view. Their hosting is slow, not nearly as responsive as other systems with sites of a given complexity and yes, nowadays prone to problems that never used to occur with their systems even two years ago. Things are, it seems, forever getting worse with Bondware, not better.
Fire Angel
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Fri, Apr 10Well that and Bondware have never promoted Poser properly. When I go to Amazon and eBay I occasionally see DAZ Studio advertisements, but since Bondware bought Poser I have never, ever seen a Poser ad anywhere but on Renderosity or the Poser software site. That's almost entirely advertising to existing users only, so the user base is hardly likely to grow is it?
DAZ have promoted Studio actively on FaecesBook and using Google Ads, which has grown the user base. Poser has for years only been advertised to existing users and that contrast is a large part of why Poser is slowly fading away. That and a lack of development that makes DAZ Studio, hardly a beacon of progress, look as if it is advancing like lightning.
I think both DAZ Studio and Poser are going to suffer badly as AI image generation software become much more widely used. Many hobbyist image makers are lazy at heart, and prompt-writing is a lot easier. In addition if you want a particular costume for an AI generated character you just have to describe it, while for a 3D scene you have to buy it or make it. It will become even worse as even relatively cheap computers become powerful enough to run the image generation software locally.
DAZ have promoted Studio actively on FaecesBook and using Google Ads, which has grown the user base. Poser has for years only been advertised to existing users and that contrast is a large part of why Poser is slowly fading away. That and a lack of development that makes DAZ Studio, hardly a beacon of progress, look as if it is advancing like lightning.
I think both DAZ Studio and Poser are going to suffer badly as AI image generation software become much more widely used. Many hobbyist image makers are lazy at heart, and prompt-writing is a lot easier. In addition if you want a particular costume for an AI generated character you just have to describe it, while for a 3D scene you have to buy it or make it. It will become even worse as even relatively cheap computers become powerful enough to run the image generation software locally.