AresFate

One of the big problems for creators is pirating. An example of this is in the car making market. Someone started passing around full perm Pm scripts and within a couple of months the market went from a handful of creators to hundreds. Prices dropped drastically, if you wanted to sell something you had to slash prices dramatically.. That raised your overhead to the point it just wasn't worth creating cars anymore. The same with skins and copy bot. People copy bot the skin templates, they sell the skins for 100 lindens. Why would someone spend the immense amount of time creating new skin templates to make skins when someone is going to steal it, then sell it for 1000 times less than the person who made it? They're not. That's what common users don't realize, we are not going to spend a month working on new items to have it stolen and reintroduced as someone else's creation within days of releasing it. Another big issue is freebies and people living in other areas of the world where the dollar is worth significantly more. Say I live in south America where someone can live comfortably on less than 100 dollars a month. If I sell a skin for 100 linden, it's like a 1000 to a euro or someone living in North America.. This really creates an unequal playing field that people just don't want to deal with anymore. Almost all the female skins are created off the same templates, I haven't seen an original one in quite awhile. same stuff by different creators at extremely different prices. Sl as an economy is over, to much competition, to much content theft and an unequal playing field is driving the talented people off, and I cant say I blame them.