Sad news, the HiveWire store is to close…
“We will have a final, FINAL storewide sale beginning the first of December and will run til the first week in January 2021”.
So, you may want to hold back some PayPal from your Black Friday/Cyber Monday purchases for that, with the date to mark being Tuesday 1st December. Especially if items such as the new Poser Scatter Tool (likely to make the move to Poser 12) and Ken G’s superb creature packs have substantial discounts then.
They’ll be moving the store into the Renderosity Store, which makes a lot of sense in terms of going where the traffic and buyers are…
“Renderosity is excited to receive content that has been published at HiveWire” and there “our impact as a HiveWire brand will continue”.
I’d suggest they’ll also be able to cross-sell better there, and create bundles that only involve purchase from one store. For instance, the new HiveWire Tiger is currently also on Renderosity, but if you also wanted its paid LAMH fur preset then you could only buy that from HiveWire.
However, their content sellers are not obliged to make the move to Renderosity and some may perhaps go elsewhere. After the move HiveWire will get access into Poser 12’s new in-software Store purchase/download tabs, though, which may encourage many to go to Renderosity.
It’s said that the HiveWire Community Forums will not be combining with the Renderosity forums and will be staying online at community.hivewire3d.com. If you’re going over there to take a look, note that the per-software forums there are not immediately obvious to the visitor, and are found under “Using 3D Software”.