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Subject: "Family Friendly" vs. "Adult" -- a new study on profitablity

XENOPHONZ opened this issue on Jun 07, 2005 ยท 43 posts


Penguinisto posted Tue, 07 June 2005 at 8:36 PM

Personally, if you want a all-age-friendly site, you're going to have to start one from the ground up. So let's do that. Name it "renderkids.com" or somesuch. Sell textures on it that are by policy pre-clothed with something that looks like underwear (or at least has not a hint of genitalia, like female nipples and etc.) Allow no nudity, and even put up a "template" texture (with pre-painted areas covering whatever naughty bits you won't allow) that artists and merchants alike must adhere to, period. Put in lots and lots of tutorial sections, and re-write 'em for different age groups (say, a 6-10yr section, 11-13yr section, a 13-17yr section, an adult (but still "G"-Rated only) section...) Separate the galleries also, but not by genre or proggie type; do it by age group. Hold contests once a month or so for prizes, broken down by age group, or have it as a parent/child contest, where both parent and child have to build it together. I mean, c'mon, with as much money as Barbie dolls have made over the years, and w/ DAZ|Studio still running usefully on a low-end PIII (which means that the cheap and old computers that kids use are still useful for this), I don't see why it shouldn't make a tidy income from MP sales if Xeno's report has any weight to it, and the prices are reasonable. Speaking of money, you can even remove that from being a source of trouble where kids are concerned. Maybe have the parents buy blocks of "ArtBucks" tokens for the site at the rate of $1.00 USD = One "Artbuck", which then lets the kids spend those "ArtBucks" in the site's MP (The merch gets 50% or more of the cut at a rate of one "ArtBuck" = $1.00 USD.) ...there. I've basically set up a fully usable idea for anyone with the cojones to do it. If you make a zillion dollars off the idea, all I want is credit on the site somewhere ("...this site is dedicated to that poopyhead Penguinisto who said I didn't have the grapes for it" will do just fine as a salutation.) I don't want a dime from the idea unless I decide to build a site like it myself before anyone else does. IOW, the idea as presented is hereby publicly posted for anyone's consumption. This way, those who hate the creepy ol' "pornography" posted here have a clean and safe place to go, and those who can't stand "busibodies" and "crusader" types can stay away from it. Nobody's ego gets hurt, and we can all render what we want. Fair enough? Now let's see someone prove/disprove the whole premise once and for all, shall we? :) /P