Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Has Renderosity thought about doing a PW like subscription service?

Mesh_Magick opened this issue on Sep 05, 2003 ยท 18 posts


dialyn posted Fri, 05 September 2003 at 7:57 AM

Wouldn't Props Club and Xena's Club be considered subscription services? Their approach is a little different (in that you don't have access to old items) but the principle seems the same: a subscription fee upfront and then you have access without an additional fee for the period of the subscription. Daz, I agree, is a different kind of thing. It's as if you are paying an entry fee, like a membership club, but you never stop having to pay something for the individual items in addition to that entry fee. I'm not saying that's good or bad. I belong to both kinds of services. Daz has market dominance in some areas, but I shop just as much elsewhere as I do there. I think it's a bind for the merchants. People demand high quality at minimum prices but the merchants would like, in an ideal world, to make back the time they invest in creating their items (and I don't think that is unreasonable, but it is a highly competitive market for some things that are the fad of the moment). Of course this is a topic that we've had discussed at length not too long ago, so I think I'll stop here, having already been redundant on the topic.