Quote - I think it's a weird market all the way around. Frankly at times it pisses me off too. Why? Well, I spend a pile of money for some content and add-ons for it let's say a figure and later the same thing is half price or free a few months later. Now that encourages the heck out me to spend money. Same with the software. I buy it right out of the gate and upgrade and less than a year later they're running specials or giving it away with the purchase of something else. The only advantage I get is getting to play with it sooner than those who waited, but they get it for next to nothing compaired to what I payed for it. Then there is Poser 7 that needed updates or something dang it, but EF sold out and right before the release of a new version. Seriously, this market is killing itself. byAnton why do you give Apollo away for free? If it's all about making money?

You've probably answered that before, but I never heard it.

I retired Apollo because stores kept trying to use him as a pawn/point of leverage to force me to make content, compromise my ethics, or as just a simple tool to control what I said or did. This is never going to happen. So I retired him after Renderosity recinded a half dozen invitations to move him to Renderosity.

They first approached me in 2005 and kept asking ever after. So first I took Apollo off of CP after an accounting dispute. During that transition, Rendo recinded it's offer after I filed a claim of copyright infringement against a supposed broker here.

At that point I was just fed up. I was more annoyed than angry, but sort of thought, "Their loss".

I made Apollo free, because I was always getting email asking for him to be made available. I thought it would be a nice gesture for merchants and people who like male figures. And I am happy to do it.

Originally I was just going to re-release the 2006 version, but I started playing around with old ideas, and it sort of snowballed.

I could have sold him again, but thought making him free would be more fun after such a good run.

-Anton, creator of Apollo Maximus
"Conviction without truth is denial; Denial in the face of truth is concealment."

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