Frankly they were foolish to make them free to begin with. I'm sure the hope was to see the niche sales increase and I doubt that happened. I don't have any problems with the niche bases no longer being free personally. Even getting them free didn't encourage me to use most of them. As long as M4 and V4 are free I doubt it will be any impact most new users or what products get created.

"pc items discontinued because of the costs involved" The reason should have been they are old as the hills and frankly do not look good in the store any more.

"subtle hints of DAZ Studio not being free in the future anymore" They have already said some of what will be in the next free version vs pay for version so those hints must be for Version 5 of studio.

 

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