Quote - daz got some of the cash from platinum users, who have shown themselves to be willing to buy anything at any time, even if they never use it in a render. they got some cash from buyers of the millenium group of models, whose users have shown themselves to be willing to buy hundreds of textures, hundreds of clothing items and hundreds of injection morphs, even if they never use them in renders, and even if they already own a lo-res or a hi-res copy of the same texture. to me it implies daz are positioning themselves to move ahead of e-frontier. they have the new bryce/hexagon combo, and e-frontier has shade. they have daz studio, and e-frontier has poser. but daz is in a better position, as they have a customer base who have shown themselves willing to buy any new sale-price add-on to daz studio, even if they never use it. this is something that e-frontier doesn't yet have - a gimmick to trick people into buying stuff they'll never use, that they'll never need. they have plenty of customers who don't understand most of the features of their software, but e-frontier haven't yet grasped the marketing genius of charging people extra, at special one-time-only sales, for the useless bells and whistles they'll never use or comprehend. y'all might be surprised to learn this, but troll the poser forum sometime. you'll often find people admitting (or bragging) that they spend hundreds of dollars per month on poser extras, thousands of dollars per year. I daresay e-frontier should be interested in tapping into this gold mine.

You could say the same of people who buy expensive sw  package after package and never use it. Or expensive other gadgets. Hey, more power to them if it makes them happy. You don't have to buy the stuff. I like the sales,  they can be very good.  Daz has sales regularly. I have gotten stuff for dirt. Nothing wrong with that. If you think it is too much don't buy it. The have a 30day no questions asked guarentee. Not everybody in sw does that and the ones that do don't make it as easy to really get your money back. They market and they do it well. It's a tough world. Companies have to compete and market. Most companies put money before people. I have no problems with companies making money, but that shouldn't be all the company is about. This is one reason I don't like publicly traded companies. DAZ nor Eovia seem to be those kind of companies.

No need to think outside the box....
    Just make it invisible.