One way (not the only way) to create a strong marketplace for Bryce content; one would create very desirable, original meshes and then sell those packaged for Bryce only, ever. Meaning that package would never be available in native formats for Poser, Studio, Vue, or as generic meshes.

And, (I had suggested the following to Daz throughout my years of beta-testing) you make it so that content can be permanently locked within Bryce, so it cannot be manually exported out in any way (unless the author would allow that, of which they could charge more for that option up front).

Btw Brycers, this is the way Vue users (cornicopia3d) has been doing it for YEARS! Their content available for Vue is vast and of great quality now.

Best example of this marketing practice imo, is microsoft and the xbox. The xbox console with an unforgiveable 50% failure rate was still purchased by people like crazy even if they were aware of the impending failure rate. Why? Halo is why. If you wanted to play it, you had to buy an xbox because Halo was not available anywhere else.

Additionally though; Micorosft would eventually allow Halo games to later appear also for PC's but normally years after their initial debut. Which is insanely smart as it would boost that Halo game just after it had faded away from its debut 2 years earlier. Not only would that renew interest in Halo gameplay (of any version) but would help get all the consumers excited for the next version of Halo which would be close to coming out...for xbox only...for 2-3 years. Anyway, you get the idea.

But, here is the unfortunate downside when you apply this to Bryce content. The author of this (very desirable, original) content would (most likely) not make as great profits beacuse you are not selling to users of potentially any 3D program (versus if you are selling say, generic meshes and textures) You would be limiting yourself to sales from Bryce users only.

Yet, one major silver lining right now is that the most current/best version of Bryce, which is Bryce 7 Pro is available to anyone for free. So, right now, absolutely anyone on the planet could be a Bryce customer (if the content is desirable enough). And...(and I'm just guessing here) if Bryce content sales would increase and stay that way, Daz might likely just keep Bryce free for a very, very long time.

Yet overall, the bottom line is, if a Bryce content creator would adopt this practice it would be a move for making smaller profits but for a longer term as they would be attempting to create a catalogue of content for and only Bryce.

One last note; obviously this practice has indeed started as you will notice with some of the retail content that have came out after Bryce 7 debuted. This is all wonderful for Bryce yet...where the real money and power lies is with creating a very popular catalogue of original meshes. Materials, Skies, IBL, Trees are all great and needed but the real power of the draw for users and their money are in meshes.

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