This happened before on Studio. After the “worst” month of the earning, Envato came-up with an announcement that they are closing Studio. I was stating that it’s gonna happen the same thing with Marketplace, I believe this is Envato’s saying “Brace for impact”
End of the month with down to 80-90% sales, with no statistic working ( still ) , few statements that is clearing the air for “Elements only” model:
I wish I was wrong…
This is a start. In couple years, there’s no guarantee that they will not shut down the other marketplaces ( TF /GR ) as they will continuing focusing on Elements or other part of the site. We would be having the same situation with you and other authors. Then we could say same things for you as well.
Suggestions for the author out there that they have still “hope” for the marketplace, use the next one or two month to build your own license and marketing system and ready to either opt-out from “Exclusivity” and/or start selling the items on your own.