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PWG is closing, and what that means.

🕑 Added 2025-06-09 21:21:32 +0000 UTC

Comments

Chris Stieha

I have found that if I go to the shop and select Partner: Pipermakes, it will show me a green download button for all the models that I own. I have had no issues downloading things this way.

Tehbushey

Man I picked a shitty time to subscribe

Matticus Maximus

Weeks later and I still can't access my downloads page :( Hope it clears up soon so I can get them downloaded.

TKFTGaurdian

maybe the tiny legend model would work for you? they send me my files in a private message on here, and then have a discount code when i go onto there separate website, which are sent via email

Poyper

The traffic the site is experiencing right now currently is basically akin to a DDoS attack xD The download side of things will be open for at least 6 months, so I imagine the initial oh jeez panic will subside, and I'm looking to get the download all button onto all of my filesets, but I can't actually get into the edit page myself to actually test and see if it'll work x'D

B. Griffith

So the downloads will definitely be available for six months? Because as others have said, the downloads there are SO SLOW it'll probably take me that long to download everything!

Poyper

Joey D

Glad to hear you're looking at your own site as an option (and/or MMF, despite their scummy business practices :\ ) Downloaded from PWG is always excruciatingly tedious and unnecessarily slow, it's genuinely horrible... and reading some comments it seems I'm not alone there.

Poyper

The idea, is to have the same or a similar kind of integration through Patreon's API. Even if I end up on mmf I'll be able to pull that info over~ I just don't have much of a timeline for that in place yet. ~Pipes

killroy225

For the past few weeks I've been having issues even being able to log into PWG, is there a way for you to see what models I have purchased to be able to redownload them on whatever service you move to?

John Pfeifer

No thanks; Gumroad wants me to keep doing capchas to download my files.

FlyinCaveman

I see lots of folks using Gumroad. I dont know they're reputation or your opinions on them. But thats the only alternative I know of besides MMF

Poyper

From a customer side of things they're serviceable, but from a makers side of things, it's useless broken feature after useless broken feature, constantly trying to force you as an artist into their ecosystem entirely, making everything outside of it miserable to use/integrate, on top of all the previous ways they've mucked over other artist friend of mine, and the constant stream of shit talking I hear about them from the various artist discords I'm in. It has been, and always will be a hard sell for me. That said, it's actually pushing me to reach out to a handful of different site devs with the intent of just, making a site for me. Not relying on another service has been a huge goal for me, and this is probably gonna be the thing that gets me to actually contract out a dev or similar.

Miguel Arriaga

I know how you feel about myminifactory, but maybe at this point it would be better to start thinking about your customers convenience? Hopping from one hosting site to another where things might keep been half working is not the best business model.

Drama lama

whats wrong with MMF?

JEG301

My problem is PWG has such a slow download rate for the files, I have months of backdated models to download because of how slow they are and how often the website gives me an error due to the slow download

Ben Cops

Why not myminifactory? Probably that is a stupid question but isn’t everyone else there ?

CaptainKeen

Seems like a last resort, but I know of a few creators using google drive. I don't like it as much as a working hosting service, but I think it's acceptable from a user perspective so long as download links are sent out in an email instead of just posted on a patreon post that will expire. Don't much like having to worry if I've forgot to grab my files. Dunno how well all that works from a creator perspective.

Daniel Hall

Someone tell Tano at OPR they have a chance to purchase a good company site for fulfillment of models!

Poyper

I have been posting the page links for the sets in every current release post and directing folks to use those links *because* the check for new downloads button was broken by an API update patreon did. If you click those links in the posts it populates them to your library as an alt to the CFND button. The download side of PWG will still be active for six months. ~Pipes.

Poyper

Should have shot you a DM~ ~Pipes

Matthieu Marino

Downloading everything from pwg is just impossible : the interface make downloading file a chore, the pages don't load, I haven't seen the last two months files in my feed and the "check new files" crash every time. I hope you can find another mean to allow us to get all our files back.

Francis Laracuente

Damn that sucks

Maeyanie

So for whatever reason Patreon isn't letting me direct message you, but I'm the developer who wrote and runs the back-end stuff for Ben from Ritual Design. His site is set up using Shopify with some plugins for sales and subscriptions (in addition to Patreon), and Itch.io for distribution, which has been working well for him. Given you're both doing roughly the same thing, odds are a lot of the features you need will be similar, and I'd be happy to make whatever changes or other custom stuff you need. If you're interested, please feel free to message me. Thanks. :)

Alberto Camargo Garcia

OH boy, this is going to suck xDDD. As possible options I'd point to maybe OneBookShelf, as they currently already host STLs, maybe checking out partnering with Fat Dragom Games, maybe Gumroad...