onimusha opened this issue on Mar 12, 2012 · 137 posts
wolf359 posted Tue, 13 March 2012 at 5:41 AM
I am of the opinion that half measures cobbled together for P/R damage control can do more harm ,in the long run ,than bluntly stating:
"Tough cookie folks if you want this then use our program"
This is what I somewhat admire about companies like Autodesk when it comes to their windows only product line.
They never tried to Fob off some horribly dysfunctional or "windows Emulation" dependent version of 3DMAX on us Mac users,
DAZ should have said this to the poser supplicants from the beginning and dealt with the fallout.
Not to start a DAZ bashing session mind you, but they seem to be desperately trying to expand beyond their usual&captive market of Forum dwelling ,Digital Content hoarders &internet gallery populators, based soley on their imagined "magical qualities" of genesis.
Winning 3D world Mag's "innovation of the year"
seems to have horribly distorted their view of reality with regard to the professional CG market
For example they recently posted a sticky Calling to all "game developers".
They proudly announced that they have created an experimental , proof of concept, Apple IOS app that will import a Low poly game res version of Genesis onto the Ipad and proceeded to show
the "Girl" morph of genesis on the Ipad doing what I can only describe as an utterly embarrassing "Booty slap" Dance.
Wearing her color changing "supersuit".
NO actual Game Idea (FPS,RPG etc)
Just, "hey look!! its the mighty genesis hacked onto the ipad ,You game dev guys take it from here!!"
They did the same with their experimental genesis to Maya plugin as if just showing people that its possible to have a genesis mesh in their program will make them come running with a team of $$programmers$$ and figure out "some use" for the amazing genesis in their established pipelines.
Now the free premium software Free give away.
The same delusional mentality that makes it very obvious
( to me) that they refuse to acknowledge that very few people outside of the Myopic little DAZ/poser internet communities actually care about their Precious genesis Figure.
Cheers