joezabel opened this issue on Aug 23, 2005 ยท 119 posts
onimusha posted Wed, 24 August 2005 at 12:30 AM
I don't think every Poser figure should be free. But we're talking about Curious Labs/eFrontier, the people at the core of this sub-set of artists. They've sold thousands of copies of Poser. They sold me a copy of P6 that was fatally flawed and literally caused me hours of work. But they're giving it away to people who get a version of P6 that works and charging more than what the market should bear for their new figure. Meanwhile, I got the Winterqueen and a broken version of P6. It's not fair and makes me feel mistreated as a customer. Now let's compare Miki to something like Appollo Maximus. AM is made by an independent artist who's hardly a corporate entity. He's charging $100 for his figure, and it comes with even less than Miki. Whether or not it's worth it for me to buy that figure belays the fact that I don't think he's charging an unfair price given who he is and what the economics of the situation are. Curious Labs/eFrontier have the ability to give Miki away for free or charge a reasonable competitive price for it, yet they won't because they've shown time and again that they hate their customers. I feel very screwed by them because I'm not getting Miki for free when someone who's buying P6 now will.