I wanted to post an update on my current situation for those of you who weren't wondering. After the points income update on March 10th, 2026, I have been having some issues with Maker World that I wanted to make you aware of. I am going to be completely transparent and honest here. I also don't want to seem stuck up or ungrateful for what I have achieved here on Maker World. I posted my most successful model, my "Satisfying Fabric," on January 6th, 2025. Within the first hour, I got 30 downloads. It quickly grew and became one of the most successful models on Maker World. It is currently the 66th most downloaded model on Maker World. It currently has 73.4k downloads and 48.3k prints. Even though this is the most popular of my models, I have several others with over 1-4k downloads. I can break down some of the statistics of my Maker World downloads. There have been 1,509,085 grams of material consumed printing my models. That is 1,509 spools of filament. Assuming 75% of that was Bambu brand filament, priced at an average of $20 per spool, Maker World has sold $22,636 of filament, and if 100% of that was Bambu brand filament, at an average of $20 per spool, they have sold $30,181 in filament. This is gross income, not revenue, but it is still in the tens of thousands of dollars. I have received a total of 124,838.332 points from Maker World. If all of those points had been redeemed for gift cards, I would have a total of $10,190 in gift cards. That is less than half of the money Maker World has potentially made from me alone. The majority of this comes from the "Satisfying Fabric." Before the points income update, I was making around 300-400 points per day from the "Satisfying Fabric." My income from that model has dropped to about 50 points per day since the update to the points income. I am still receiving 100-300 downloads per day on that singular model, but the income per download has been cut significantly. Why I have a problem with this: I was one of the first 100 people on Maker World. I am helping fuel Maker World and Bambu Lab filament and printer sales. I feel like I am and have been a fairly present and influential member of the community. I have been here since the beginning. I have spent thousands of dollars out of my own pocket with them, and many thousands more with gift cards. As Maker World is trying to expand their model database, they initiated the points incentive program. This incentivizes people to upload models, to receive points. With the most recent update, to boost the number of models posted, they increased the incentives for new models. They also decreased the incentives for old models. I am not impressed that I am essentially being punished for helping Maker World grow to where it is today. I get that they want more models posted here, but why punish the existing ones? It is disheartening to think that I can upload a model for it to be successful, only to slowly diminish to nothing, while Maker World profits from my hard work. This, along with TheNextLayer's most recent YouTube video criticizing Bambu Lab, I have decided to stop posting models here. I will not play their game. I am not going to stand for this. Instead, I will be increasing my activity on the Community, with a new weekly post. As we all love Maker World's Weekly Round Up posts, I am considering posting my own Weekly Screw Up posts, featuring the things Maker World may have screwed up, or dumb things I see on the Community. Let me know if that might be something you would enjoy or want. Also, for those of you who might be wondering, I did contact Maker World about my concerns. I bantered back and forth with them for a week or two, and they were not relenting. I eventually brought up another matter that had been bothering me in the same conversation. I had sent emails and help tickets requesting Maker World official verification, and they had not responded. If they didn't want to verify me, they should have just said no, but instead, they ignored me. I brought this up in my conversation complaining about my points, and they immediately verified me, probably to make me go away. The likelihood that Maker World removes this post, my verification, or my income is high because I am voicing what I have experienced. If that is the case, I will make sure to let you know, because then they are also taking away my freedom of speech, which is unacceptable. So, there you go. This has been my experience with Maker World. I appreciate the success I have had. I am considerably more successful than most users here. I am very blessed to have gained all I have from a couple of hours dinking around on a computer. Please, let me know how you feel about your experience, or what you think about mine.

I sent this to MW today: @MakerWorld , you really need to fix the community. ASAP. NOBODY wants to see AI slop and crowfunding advertisements and nobody wants to see you "weekly roundup" on the MODELS page. They don't want to see crowfunding on the MODELS page. Guess what they want to see? MODELS. People are leaving, MW is dying, and the community turned into a playground where as it used to be a place for users to share tips, prints, or ask questions. Please fix what you started. #Revive Maker World -GabeTechInd(Edited)