wolf359 opened this issue on Nov 22, 2011 · 296 posts
wolf359 posted Tue, 29 November 2011 at 7:18 AM
"Well, there was this Thread... just sayin'..."
From the Linked thread:
"I wish you guys would get back to what you do best... creating characters, and make darned sure it is compatible with Poser. Breaking that is signing your death warrant, commercially."
Hmm the OP of that thread is clearly a veteran poser user with an obvious Bias and concern about the loss of the old Defunct paradigm ( poser compatible V-chicks& content for eternity)
Growth lies in NEW customers
not trying to win over entrenched partisans from other apps.
Notice how Apple Did not not tried to take Away
the Entrenched corporate Clients of Microsoft by convincing Conservative Corporate IT Dept's to stop buying those Huge enterprise Windows bundles or Convince Die hard, build your own Rig, PC Gamers to buy a ridiculously priced MAC pro.
with the Iphone, Ipods& pads They targeted Lay people
(non-techy uncles ,cousins and grandma's )far removed from the fever swamped web forums of platform Jihaadists.
Ironicly I just visited a thread over at DAZ about the new DAZ front page.
It seems ,to me at least, that many of the DAZites
themselves Dont under stand the new direction their beloved provider is taking.
One notable Complaint was that the new site front page basicly contains Alot of really cool Images and Art and a link to Download DAZ Studio4.
No tech specs ,no feature list or even a link to the actual store to buy the latest V-chick hookerware.
Well IMHO it is a simple strategy aimed at NEW people to the scene. Show some really cool renders& art and associate them with your program and "upsell"them on content and plugins etc. afterwards.
If you have seen any of the recent Windows 7 TV Ads you see a similar strategy,
You see happy, good looking suburbanite Families enjoying
their Kinect Cameras and uploading Cool colorful vids to Facebook . Not a tech oriented feature list About Win 7's 64 bit architecture,Multi-threading etc.
Wether DAZ will grow from this same approach remains to be seen but its clear they are looking outside the existing poser/ D.A.Z communities for growth.
Cheers