Coleman opened this issue on Jan 10, 2006 ยท 72 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Wed, 11 January 2006 at 1:10 PM
If e-f raised the price, would the "professionals" start to think that Poser is more than a hobbyist toy?
That's it -- just triple the price, and Poser will be instantly be regarded as a "professional's tool" overnight.
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I don't know that their market would "shrink". Yes, they would lose the hobbyist market who won't pay $99 for an upgrade... but at the same time, they'll get the "professional" market who won't blink at paying $2,500 for programs like 3D Studio Max.
Not necessarily. Poser has always been a hobbyist app from it's inception. That's Poser's primary market. To change this target demographic would be to alter Poser from it's "populist" roots.
And I don't know that doing so would instantly win Poser a ton of Maya/Max/Lightwave converts, anyway. EF might just end up losing their focused market, instead.
D|S, anyone.......?
E-on seems to manage with Vue Infinite/d'Esprit/Easel.
shrug I'm not totally opposed to the idea of multiple versions. In fact, I'm a Vue Infinite user.....but I'd point out that the Vue crowd is a different bunch from the Poser crowd -- and that the Poser crowd is likely to react in unpredictable ways to such a major change to their favorite app.
Besides, I think the bigger issue will be, "How come V4 doesn't look as good in my $1,000 P7 Ultimate as she does in free D|S?"
Yes.....there is that to consider.
So of course: the thing to do in order to compete with "free" D|S is to jack Poser's price up to new heights. (heeeee......heeee.....)
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