thefixer opened this issue on Aug 07, 2007 · 430 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Tue, 14 August 2007 at 10:40 AM
Ah......where some miss the point of Poser is in failing to realize that the vast majority of Poser users are 3D Weekend Warriors -- i.e. hobbyists. And there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with being a 3D hobbyist. It's how most of us in here got our start in this game.
Weekend golfers can't do what the pros do, either. But that doesn't therefore make their favorite leisure activity somehow illegitimate. If they want to go out and spend a few hours on a Saturday afternoon knocking golf balls into the nearby woods along with the best -- then more power to 'em. They aren't harming anyone. Nor are they defiling the 'purity' of the High Art of golf through their amateurish playing. They are just having fun -- and no one has the right to tell them that they can't do that because they aren't as good as Tiger Woods is.
If someone wants to buy props in the Marketplace -- or for that matter just take freestuff -- and then cobble together a scene, render it out & post it in the gallery for others to enjoy -- they've done absolutely nothing wrong. Some might look down on such activity: they probably also look down on the fools who play touch football (I'm talking about American-style 'football') at a picnic because those people don't play for the NFL.
As for vendors in the Marketplace -- some of them approach the job of being a vendor as a part-time endeavor which they do purely for fun. Others view it as a way to finance their Poser addiction. Still others make good, solid supplemental incomes off of their efforts -- and some even make a full living from it. It's nowhere near as bad as a few would have us to believe.
But one thing that all of those multitudes of good, solid vendors do for the rest of us -- their hard work supplies the very life's blood which makes this website's existence possible. So even if you never buy anything from a single vendor in the Marketplace.........you have benefited hugely from their labors: and you owe them a debt of gratitude.
BTW - volume DOES make up for high price. It's a business model which has succeeded again and again. Toyota is a much bigger company than Rolls Royce is.