drifterlee opened this issue on Nov 02, 2011 · 273 posts
pjz99 posted Mon, 07 November 2011 at 4:44 PM
Quote - While I feel for the vendors, it is not Daz's responsiblity that they keep the vendors employed. The vendors are not part of their company - a company that deserves to do what they see fit.
To an extent that's true, but a vast portion of DAZ's income is from brokered content, built by freelancers. IMO it makes a lot more sense to make content creation as cheap and painless as possible (free tools would be ideal) but I guess they're looking at their spreadsheets and deciding it's time to be more of an application/tools vendor than a brokerage. They had to have thought about the consequences pretty thoroughly, but I guess we'll see how it all pans out in the long run.