XFX3d opened this issue on Feb 07, 2006 ยท 151 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Wed, 08 February 2006 at 1:23 AM
I think right move was to release Venus first and then Apollo.
Yep.
BTW - I would submit that esoteric discussions revolving around the detailed intricacies of EULA's are of real interest to only a select few. You'll never sell a product to most Joe Blows by saying: "Look at my neat EULA........!" An over-restrictive EULA might kill a product. But the first thing that a potential Poser buyer looks at ain't in the fine print.
The First Thing is the face & the form in the promo images. All of the rest is usually window dressing -- for most buyers.
The majority of Poser users want to render purty pictures -- usually with purty ladies featured prominently front & center in the picture. An intelligent merchant will recognize this natural tendency: and will wisely admit to the fact that it exists -- and will then exploit it for personal gain.
The wise merchant won't engage in attempting to stop the ocean from flowing exactly where it wants to flow. Rather, the wise merchant will note where the flow is going, and then go along with the tide.
If your goal is to sell things -- then give the people what they want. Not what YOU happen to want for them to want. Or what you think that they should want. You must cater to the tastes of the majority of the public. Not to your own tastes, whatever those happen to be. Feed the animals with their natural food. You'll attract them that way.
On the other hand -- attempt to force the issue into some other mold of your own creation: and then you will merely be practicing the art of banging your head repeatedly against an immovable brick wall. Such behavior won't lead to any other result than pain.
Scolding people because they are obsessed with things other than what YOU happen to think that they should be obsessed with -- will go over with the general public just like the proverbial lead ballon. People's tastes are what they are. And you can't change them. You'll either choose to admit to these facts -- and exploit them to your own marketing advantage; or else you'll continue to try to force-feed people with things that they don't want.
It's been tried before. It didn't work then, and it won't work the next time that it's tried, either.
People always break into threads like this one, insisting that they never use DAZ figures. shrug That's their choice. More power to 'em.
But the fact remains that V3 -- and character packages/clothing/hair/what-have-you created expressly for V3 outsells all of the rest combined.
Until such time as someone else comes along, and out-V3's V3 (Venus, anyone?) -- we'll eagerly await the arrival of V4.
As mentioned earlier -- everyone is welcome to follow after their own tastes as they create their excellent products. It's a free road. But in such a case -- do it for the love of what you do. Not in an attempt to make everyone else over into your own image. They won't go along. And you won't sell much of anything to them. Message edited on: 02/08/2006 01:26