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 lord_blackfang wrote:

Aecus Decimus wrote:

 Hanskrampf wrote:
If I cut back, offer less models but make cool promo shoots and end up selling double less (less products + hopes in the wrong model lines), is just not worth the risk.

But what about the risk that you make a design that doesn't translate to the real object and the customers who bought it decide you're at best incompetent (and at worst a scammer) and refuse to ever buy from you again? Do you not think that's a problem you should be concerned about?

Just makes me think that 90% of STLs sold just get hoarded and never printed. If they got printed, you would see more people throwing up a stink about gakky topology, internal voids, etc.

Whilst an individual might not print everything, the collective often do. The problem is many people don't really understand topology issues or voids.

So when their model doesn't print right they might blame the presupports or their printer or they might not even really see the failures - they might just assume that's what 3D printing is. Or just not care.
Voids might well be blamed on loads of random things since the cracking of wet resin reacting with cured resin might take weeks to months to appear. They might blame themselves for "overcuring" or the sun for the same; they might think they dropped it or the model might be on a shelf or in a box now because they used it for the one DnD campaign and might not want the model again or not for months more; by which time the crack is blamed on something else.

3D printing is so new that there aren't good teaching resources setup so a lot of missinformation spreads around; half truths; missunderstandings and just flat out incorrect information. It all spreads around and gets mixed up.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Just makes me think that 90% of STLs sold just get hoarded and never printed. If they got printed, you would see more people throwing up a stink about gakky topology, internal voids, etc.

I suspect it's somewhat of the Steam sale problem, with people buying tons of stuff because it's cheap and "someday I'll use this". I'm skeptical that it's a sustainable thing, and it certainly involves having much lower standards than someone who isn't falling victim to hoarding behavior.

I have always been a giant fan of G.I.Joe (RAH) but the images from Reneage games released of the renders of their upcoming G.I. Joe miniatures were terrible and turned me completely off.
The sad truth is after the miniatures were released they didn't look any better than the poor renders.