wolf359 opened this issue on Nov 22, 2011 · 296 posts
wolf359 posted Wed, 23 November 2011 at 2:02 PM
^do you realize that there is still a large portion of the community using legacy poser figures? legacy versions of poser? the base poser figures? V3? V4? posette? antonia? etc? each with a sea of legacy content?"
yes and Adding Catmull Clark SubD to the latest version of poserpro 2012 just to use a "Cr2 Exporter" that only works for poser pro 2012 would be ignoring the Majority of the current user base who have not abandoned all previous version of poser & Content.
"one new figure is not enough to win over the bulk of the community."
And I have yet to see a single shred of evidence that DAZ ever had a primary goal to "win over" or convert the existing poser base to their camp in the first place.
Quite the contrary IMHO they seem to be interested in gathering new users from everywhere Except the existing poser base.
They seem to want Autodesk Maya users to Adapt D/S
They want photoshop and other 2D artist artist to "Discover" Daz studio.
one of the typical strategies employed by 3D App companies trying to get users to switch programs has been "competitive sidegrades"
Maxon has done it
Newtek has done it in years past.
Where are the "sidegrade" pricing offers from DAZ for a reduced priced DS4 pro for existing poser pro users?.
but then again they Do already have a free loss leader version that anyone can try out with no time limit.
while SM is trying to get people to actually pay for
"poser Debut."
Cheers