thefixer opened this issue on Jun 16, 2009 · 161 posts
pjz99 posted Tue, 16 June 2009 at 3:42 AM
Quote - This is probably my misconception, but I always get the feeling that D/S limits certain options in order to twist the user's arm into buying something extra. This seems to be less the case with this version (hence the price for D/S Advanced, which I'm all in favour of and which appears very reasonable), but I'd need more convincing.
That's not a misconception, that's the way they've always pushed the plugins for DAZ|Studio. The base version is "free" but really it's just an introduction to the DAZ store, they've always made their money off of brokering/selling content. Frankly if they were REALLY clever they'd give the new version of D|S away truly for free and (unless it's terrible, which would be a bit of a surprise) suddenly "Poser Pro" would be junk. The real problem with getting people to take Poser content seriously in the larger world is not the content itself, it's getting it into a render engine that doesn't produce 1990's quality results. Video games render with higher quality than base D|S!