Quote - Well for the new poser user DAZ has almost done the same thing as withdrawing the gen4 by starting charging for them.   Maybe I'm wrong.  Maybe I was a particularly cheapass new user, but when I started out in 3d I wouldnt pay for much of anything. I'd grab anything free I could find, but I wouldnt pay.  It wasn't until I got my feet wet and started getting decent results that I started spending like a drunken sailor.

I am pretty certain that I paid for the V3 and M3 bases. At least, they appear at the same time in my order history (very first order) along with the morphs and textures, which were definitely not free.  Spending money right away on content didn't stop me from entering the market.  Those who started earlier and paid for V2/M2 or V1/M1 weren't daunted by the idea of paying for content either.

Sure, it raises the bar.  But those who are willing to pay for the bases right away are probably also more willing to pay for other content right away, too.  So the losses may not be quite as much as you'd think.

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