as much as i hate my points dropping off a cliff the simple fact is they made the extra money via bloated filament cost at £26 a roll once they dropped to £18 the saving had to come from somewhere
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And here is: Boost System-- Frequently Asked Questions
Basically because this system won’t work. People has no incentive to use them and lose time to find the model to be awarded or just use them on the first model they are on yet. Instead a spammer could enjoy them creating fake accounts getting the token and rewarding itself.
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This. Exactly. Who would have guessed …
Most user just want to download and print models and don’t bother any further. I mean, by just looking at the old like/download ratio. Generally only 1/3 of the downloads became a like too. And now they should do Boosts too? Also maybe for models they printed a while back? With no real benefit or downside for themselves?! No way that gonna work as intended. 
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Edit: I’ve reconsidered my sentiment below after realizing I’ve received many boosts and redeemed them… I’ll see how it goes. I’m skeptical but o also optimistic.
Welp. This killed my motivation to make anything for Makerworld. I had a handful of models bringing in points. One was bringing in hundreds of downloads per week, and had a steady rate of increase for the past month… this gave me the motivation to build out a vast project that took several weeks, writing instructions, building supplemental materials, additional models as print profiles, this model set (Zelda map for AMS) had a promising uptick and started to produce points happily. So I started work on 3 more large projects to keep the momentum going. Then this week the points stopped. Hard stop. I’ve gotten… +3 at a time just a handful of times instead of +25 points coming and coming. This is obviously a way to curb the free gift cards. But we all know these aren’t FREE gift cards, they are compensation. These large multi plate multi color projects bring filament revenue for Bambu, and now they’ve moved the goalpost. I stopped my other projects, and I might continue them someday, but I see no INCENTIVE to put in all the work and minding user comments and suggestions and doing the best we can for this platform if this is what the outcome is.
I’m grateful for the filament and the additional AMS I was able to purchase with points, but I won’t be continuing to post my work here anymore.
Thank you.
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i agree that the more popular your model is , that the more points you get
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According to your public profile you’ve received 9, that’s 99 points. 99 more than nothing, but, still just 99 points worth.
You also have a large number of downloads of your designs. This gives you more visibility to people who’ve already benefited from your work and also to those who have yet to benefit.
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What is wrong with a simple site to post and download designs? Why do we have to complicate EVERYTHING with reward and point systems, likes and dislikes, and worrying about what everyone thinks about everything? I want a system where everything is available to everyone at any time, not driven by points or activity. All of that just stifles creativity and, more over, contribution.
We just need a place to post and download what we like and a system that empowers conversation to further design and creativity? That’s it.
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I personally don’t like the new system but it is understandable Makerworld needs to make cuts. The thing that needs to be changed is that users who have not signed up for a Makerworld account can download models and it doesn’t change the amount of downloads displayed.
I uploaded a new model today that is a simple and small tool that prints in an hour. I’ll see how this works out compared to my more complex multi-plate models.
I’m new to 3D printing as of a couple months ago. Learned to play with software, did a lot of little edits, and got pretty excited to share my designs and collect a little reward. My designs have almost no attention other than a form-fitting Dewalt drill bit holder that I prototyped out across several days, which is fine, but it was pretty nice to see that ooh a 7th person downloaded my file, I’m creeping towards a reward!
I haven’t even been checking in the past couple days because the contrast in rewards is so high. I feel like it’s not really worth my time, if I want to share something why don’t I just upload it on thingiverse with way less effort on my part?
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I’m more worried about the issue, that only my first 5 downloads during the day are worth it. therefore from the sixth onwards they are no longer counted. this only benefits those who have many followers, with the red dot on bambu handy and if the file is simple and nice it will also be printed immediately by bambu handy. but as one goes down, and even simply opens a file in Bambu Studio from the PC to see the configuration or to better explore the printing plates, I donated another download. after having browsed about fifty files I have practically already reached my maximum limit of daily downloads. those further down, on the trend pages or download pages, will no longer receive anything. and this certainly doesn’t keep organized crafty people away.
now it explains why everyone went from x downloads per day to less than 10. at this point I wonder… is it still worth wasting hours in front of the PC to create something nice and/or useful?
It’s still worth doing. However, it’s best to do it for yourself, not for others, by only sharing for free. Or you share and get no feedback.
Makerworld is a good thing for me to see what might be in demand or what people seem to be downloading a lot, how things are presented and how users react to them with downloads. I still have some technical models in my head and have bought most of the hardware to realise them. I basically just need to build it, and I’m still interested in sculpting. I’m currently reworking a 3D-printed part by hand, in other words in a very traditional manual way. That takes some time, but I’m hoping for a result that also shows the craftsmanship. Which means, among other things, that the FDM 3D print is unrecognisable. If this is successful, I will be able to take the models to a completely different level than is possible with FDM 3D printing alone. The costs for such much larger parts than would fit into a Bambulab printing chamber would be correspondingly higher, but could attract more potentially interested buyers. However, these are all things that I will no longer offer for free, the things are too good for that, but too “niche” for Makerworld.
Many people here have already taken similar paths. Printables offers similar models to earn some money with your work.
obviously my intention is not to stop designing. but definitely, I don’t make my creative productions public. bambulab believes, perhaps, that by doing so it discourages publishing low-value projects. but in my opinion it will be just the opposite over time. there will be those who are already established and happy who will always see their works downloaded by everyone, and those in the middle who in the end will stop uploading interesting things because it’s not worth it, but only stupid things, perhaps made for fun and which aren’t even worth mentioning. I’ll do nothing about it. made for recreational and entertainment purposes only.
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I gained since MW came on line a what some of you called a middle class amount. I’ve gotten a good rolls of filament for the effort, but at this point one or 3 points every 3 or 4 days makes uploading much very worhless of my time. I design mainly for myself, and i download various items, for me and my daughter and friends. And mainky dl what i print. I have dled numerous nich items that now have 5 to 50 dls in 2 or 3 months. These earn nothing for the designer. .several of mine are like that. But i see way less content coming down the road if there are not some changes going back the other way. Eliminating spammers by actually doing some programming and other measures rather than just dropping points to zero would be the better goal
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I think my initial reply was reactionary, just getting my feelings out #projection
BACK TO PRINTABLES!!!
This rewarding system is funny now
yeah go back to where you get absolutely NO REWARD (spools of filament arent free, (most places shipping costs as much as a roll of filament) LMAO
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Remember the new rules @VictorLagina.
You will be missed, it is a shame you are leaving before allowing the new system sufficient time to work out bugs and BL to make further changes.
Remember, the grass isn’t always greener elsewhere.
A newer and more polite way of saying the same thing?
Yup, I’m about to cash out my “free” filament, 2 rolls for $17.06. (Whenever they let me pay them, their site is down or smth) Sure, it’s good filament, and a good deal, but meh. I have 4 rolls total, and that’s from 4.6k downloads. On MakerWorld I’ve already got $120 that I’m using for an A1 Mini Combo, and that’s from WAYYY less. IDK why people would want to leave specifically because of the point reduction. I dislike the changes in how downloads are counted (users who are logged out don’t count as downloads, and only the first 5 things someone downloads each day actually get a download), but that’s not a reason to leave all together!
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oh are you a new mod suddenly? nothing rule breaking there… stop trying to target people. I did nothing wrong, simply pointed out printables is nothing compared to makerworld
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