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Though DAZ|Studio will not end world hunger, nor cure any form of cancer, (as far as I'm aware) it will definitely be free. How long it remains free will be decided by our customers. As long as the support of DAZ content continues to grow, then DAZ|Studio will continue to grow (for free) as well. We would like to keep the base app available for free as long as is possible. Of course there will be certain add-on modules released apart from the base that will most likely not be for free. However, we hope that the ability to pick and choose which enhancements a customer buys will be seen as an advantage. There are many items that one user will desire that another may not. Why be forced to pay more for items you don't want?

Another reason for DAZ|Studio being a positive addition to the market is that not everyone has the money for higher priced app's, like Cinema4D as Wolf359 apparently did. ;) It is true that the Poser market continues to keep it's price bubble from bursting into the prices of most of 3D content markets, and we at DAZ want to do our part to make our content accessible to as many people as possible.

Boy, all this talk about Studio which doesn't even have a public release date yet. We do hope that you all will be happy with it once it does arrive, but please keep in mind how simple the initial releases will be and that it will take many months for the additional plugins and modules that many of you hope will be available within weeks of the core app. Consider this your fair warning that though we have some cool things in store for the beta release, everything on our information page is accurate and unfortunately the "Make Great Art" button didn't make that list last I checked. :p

Take care,

Steve Kondris
DAZ Productions, Inc.