DIMENSION_X opened this issue on Sep 19, 2005 ยท 148 posts
aeilkema posted Wed, 21 September 2005 at 1:29 AM
"I have to agree. It's a bit like the idea of a supermarket that would only sell generics rather than major brand names." I'm not sure were you do live, but in Europe we do actually have supermarket chains that do only sell generics and no brand names at all. And guess what? In this economic crisis, those supermarkets thrive and make huge profits. It's all about economics, not about reason at all. If you know your target customers then a strategy will succeed, even though it's unlogic. If DAZ plays it well, there is a huge potential market. To reach that market, they have to become dissasociated with the 'brand name Poser' Their are many 3D users that wouldn't use any poser figures at all, just because poser has a bad name in their community. (We all have been laughed at by these guys at times most likely) Often we call it snobbery, but they do represent a huge potential market. Seeing some of the latest moves DAZ is making, it seems like they're trying to build a new customer base and who knows what that may lead to? You can survive on on 'brand name only' DAZ has survived and grown large creating Poser geared content and poser releated items only. Simply because Poser has a huge user base. If they can aquire the same user base with D/S and other applications or through reaching other 3D communities, I don't see why they couldn't abandon poser altogether. You can say it's impossible, since DAZ has proven they can survive reaching one major market only. If in years to come they switch markets it would be very possible. Last remark.... Now that DAZ has it's own D/S and is trying to become less dependant on Poser and Poser is looking for new ways of rigging figures and such, who can say that Poser may not dump the DAZ support? It wouldn't be hard to stop M3/V3 inj from working in Poser 7.....
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