It's charming that he got some of his cronies here to support him.

Let me make something very clear: I'm glad that there's another poser figure out there, because we sorely needed one. I have no beef with Erogenesis, in fact until a few months ago I had no idea who he was. I do have a problem with someone making certain promises and representations and then turning around and reneging on them.

There is a huge difference between how this little project was presented to Renderosity staff and potential supporting vendors and how it actually materialized. Erogenesis presented this as some sortof boon to the Poser community, a project of passion that he intended to release for free. He got a lot of vendors interested because of this, and made several clear guarantees that there would be a free base figure available for simultaneous release at Renderosity and CGBytes. I asked him for clarification in both email and the Project Evolution forum that the Renderosity staff took the trouble to create for him that he wouldn't just release a stripped down version to funnel traffic to a $30-40 paid version on CGBytes and he assured everyone that this wouldn't be the case. I hate to say I told everyone so, but it is.

He took advantage of both the Rendo staff and merchants to support a product that he presented as a "passion project" and "gift to the Poser community" which actually turned out to be your typical 3rd party figure money grab. Which would be totally fine if that's the way it was presented from the start, but it wasn't. If he would have been honest and stated "This is a for-profit third party figure that will be released at CGBytes, would you like to create supporting products?" then he wouldn't have gotten a fraction of the support. I have no gripes with capitalism, only with duplicity.