Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Just my 2 cents on the whole copy protection affair

maci opened this issue on Apr 24, 2001 ยท 29 posts


clsteve posted Wed, 25 April 2001 at 2:47 AM

Attached Link: http://curiouslabs.com

snazzy: Thanks for your input. I'd hate to think what would happen on the forum here if we raised the price. Unfortunately many have stolen the towels, soap, maids, and the front desk is next. If we want to keep renting rooms we need to do something. Keep in mind that if it's the eleventh hour you still can install and have that grace period to register, during which time the app is fully functional. attygww 1) We won't drop the security, we feel it's the right thing to do. It's more of an inconvinience to order a book on Amazon, or buy concert tickets on line. We're not the first to do this. Many successful SW companies have done it and you'll see many more. 2) Yes absolutely. The main purpose of this is to fix bugs and we've done a lot of that. We are concentrating on quality and usability. This came out before we were ready and the focus has been on the fear of the unknown not the bug fixes. No ones asking about good stuff. 3)Yes we did consider that, but downloads from About.com and I-drive were tracked at over 1gb per day per account and my best guess was that at any one time there were 5 accounts serving up Pro Pack on each. That tells me that it is a hot product being that it's only a 24mb download. That's two of hundreds of download sites. We could find no warez sites prior to ship and we looked. Would they all have bought? No way, but add it up... 10 or even 5% would have made a huge difference to us and therefore to our legit customers. We'd rather be working on features. Thanks for posting your opinions, they really do matter to us. **************************** Steve Yatson Product Manager Curious Labs Http://www.curiouslabs.com ****************************