Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: What would it take...

XFX3d opened this issue on Feb 07, 2006 ยท 151 posts


Eternl_Knight posted Tue, 07 February 2006 at 7:08 PM

Stahlratte, Just because DAZ hasn't as YET exercised their rights under the EULA doesn't mean they won't. This is not a conspiracy theory thing, but simple business sense. DAZ may be made up of nice people (I'm not making comment on that as I don't know any of them personally), but it IS a corporation. If another company were to somehow make one of their cash-cows obsolete (just for sake of example, let's say they release a better catsuit) - DAZ can force them to stop releasing it. DAZ is not a person. DAZ is not the nice support employee at the end of the phone. DAZ is a profit-motivated corporation with a responsibility to it's stakeholders. As such, when threatened by another profit-motivated entity (the creator/seller of the better catsuit), one needs to assume it will react along it's motives and NOT the best interests of the Poser public. And let's be frank, DAZ relies on irrational purchasing behaviour for a substantial chunk of it's profits. As does most the Poser market. DAZ do have the better sales/marketting team and they use this to good effect to convince people to purchase things they have no real need or even desire for. Just how many people purchased the Girl? How many shots do you STILL see being made with her. If there is even 5% of the purchasers submitting renders of the figure to galleries now - I will be incredibly surprised. As mentioned before - this is not DAZ specific, but they are the best at it I know of for Poser content. The kind of behaviour exhibited by the general customer of DAZ IS irrational and does somewhat fit into "cult mindset". As for dismissing claims because someone making them is attached to a competitor of DAZ, that too is irrational behaviour. The claims made are not invalidated by the person making them. Hell, the EULA claims made are validated by both independant lawyers (mine at least) and by DAZ themselves. They have stated quite specifically (in both these forums and on their own) that they reserve the right to make someone take down clothing items derived from their figures if they feel the need to. I personally don't care that you prefer the Unimesh. Hell, if it weren't for the EULA - I would be probably be a frequent user of it (I think the Freak looks awesome & I can see many benefits in a single mesh over a variety of figures). I ask you simply not to discard all people with issues about the EULA due to your feelings towards one of them. I for one don't lump you in with the crazies who support DAZ (yes, there are crazies on both sides). --EK