Believable3D opened this issue on Aug 18, 2009 · 93 posts
wolf359 posted Thu, 20 August 2009 at 2:09 PM
Quote - If Poser disappeared tomorrow, how long do you think it would be before DAZ stopped giving away D/S for free? Heck, they've pretty much already stopped. Only the basic renderer is free now. Everything else cost money.
Sorry but I see no basis for your assumption.
The base D/S program will always be free
because it gets people hooked on $buying content$$ for it
just like Mikey & V-chick will always have a free base version.
Look at how many hopeful commercial"Challengers" to the dominance of Mikey&V-chick, have come along, made a little noise in the forums and quickly disappeared in the obscure wasteland of minimal to ZERO third party support. and yet Mikey& V-chick are still FREE to start.
I am no fan of the Daz figure line as I dont do humans much anyway.
But its Clearly an effective business model
especially for NEW customers to get started right way with ZERO initial monetary outlay and just like poser there will always be DAZ users who are fine with a basic render engine and Canned light sets.. both free &Bought from DAZ and third parties .
Cheers