Barwickian opened this issue on Aug 18, 2011 · 71 posts
wolf359 posted Fri, 19 August 2011 at 8:37 AM
"Quote - "However, it is up to any and all developers of character content to determine if providing content to Poser users is the right choice for them.""
There, in a few lines of text ,is the Crucial Element in this "affair"
Content Support AND Brand Marketing Makes or breaks a figure/ product in any market ,largely unrelated to how Awesome or non Awesome that figure product may be as a standalone.
Apollo Max in some respects was the Erstwhile "Genesis " of his Dayand although there were other "factors " that sent him to the Ash bin of poser history, his content support from parties ,other than his builder, was never strong.
and by the time he became free no one cared any longer.
How many thread upon threads have there been about V4's Flawed shoulders??
Yet this Figure was Clearly the Winner in ever category of content support.
why?? slick marketing
Antonia?? Nice try, Nice Effort by the builder of the figure and FREE.!!!
but again you will not succeed without a huge marketing juggernaught
and the tired old:***"use this one if you hate/Spite DAZ inc"***mentality ,will take a product only so far in reality.(see Apollo)
""what does Poser 9 , pro offer if it wont support the new line of Daz characters ? "
Well you can now use a better bending weight mapped Ryan and Alison 2.0 .....and a new Dragon model
Seriously?? IIRC poorly bending joints was among the most complimentary things people in this
community were saying about those figures and where was the demand for a new poser Dragon??
The ability to more easily create a piece of conforming clothing and add weight mapping to all of your Old
Content is a nice featurefor those so inclined to spend time undertaking theses tasks.
But frankly I am doubtful that this is truly a great incentive for a user base that still uses commercial character morph packs that are made from the result of
careful in app Dial turning.
Notice how the most enthusiastic proponents of PP2012 are beta testersmost of whom who sell poser content
that is Fine and fair and above board.
But I notice how the most enthusiastic supporters of genesis are the DAZ Studio users who have already fallen victims to the Marketing hype and have a FREE base version/program to play with while they wait for the inevitable flow of new content for it.
Cheers