Payout keeps getting worse and they keep repackaging it.
2020: 70% base, 80% cap.
2025: floor dropped to 60%, cap raised to 85% - but almost nobody actually hits 85%. People in this forum went from 73% to 61%, 79% to 69%. Real cut, just with "levels" slapped on it.
Now Sept 2026: floor drops again to 55%, cap to 80%. Same thresholds, less money for everyone under them.
Every time it's "creator levels," reputation points, dumb names like Explorer/Genius/Legend, like we're grinding XP in a mobile game instead of trying to make a living. It's not a reward system, it's a pay cut with a UI.
Most of us aren't anywhere close to the top tiers. So this isn't "sell more, earn more" like they claim, it's "your floor gets lower every year and the bar to escape it gets higher." Anyone actually seen their rate go up from one of these "updates," or is it always down
CGTrade will sink in future. Artist and creators will leave this site. No new models to be sold. And onlything this site will have is going to be Ai crap that is un-usable. It wont pull ne buyers cuz AI crap is cheap and useles and thousands other sites or programes where to get Generated stuff. Simply sales will plumit and it will sink. And some one like Epic will buy this web like with Sketchfab.
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