Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Apollo Maximus 2007 is coming, and he's going to be FREE!!!

Alisa opened this issue on Feb 19, 2007 · 302 posts


xoconostle posted Mon, 12 March 2007 at 3:48 PM

I'm very late to comment on this but ... at the risk of upsetting those with a vested interest in profiting off the rest of us, Anton making such a high quality figure available for free is precisely the sort of act of radical generosity that this community needs. It's gone from a community ripe with altruism to one sour with excess mercantilism ... this opinion coming from a pro-business card-carrying Capitalist. Mostly gone are the days when people were willing to share their quality creations for free (or low quality items for that matter.) Mostly gone are the days when there was no kooky psychological dichotomy between "merchants" and "customers." No matter how much I admire the success of DAZ and the talented content creators who sell their wares at various venues, the excess of mercantilism and dearth of true community spirit has really, really changed this scene into something a lot more pretentious and greed-oriented than many of us are fully comfortable with. If free Apollo upsets the ice cream cart a bit ... good! I hope this generous act on Anton's part offers him a sense of freedom. I'd imagine that something like that is what prompted him to do this ... to get back to the roots of why we enjoy making nice pictures and why this community is at its best when we help one another do so. Kudos and good karma to Anton. I hope new users of Apollo will get as much quality mileage out of the figure as some of us have for some time now.