vilters opened this issue on Jun 15, 2015 · 30 posts
wolf359 posted Mon, 22 June 2015 at 8:58 AM
"if you wanna knock poser goto that forum and do it "
Not knocking poser or its users.
Just addressing the apparent mindset of the"hypothetical"question that seem to indicate that the OP thinks that Blender is somehow missing out on a huge base of potential users due to some lack of gigabytes of "premade content& posable figure families".
This is not the case at all IMHO
Blender IMHO is a complete CG/Visual Effects solution for people with a mindset to learn to produce the CG/animation /VFX, without having to spend $$thousands$$ for an Autodesk,SideFX or Maxon solution.
I have observed that any poser user who is inclined to at least partially leave the familiar environment of poser,to learn other apps, has already done so
without the need for gigs of "premade content& figure families" to lure him away.
"but it's not a "silly claim". The whole reason DS is free is BECAUSE they make the money up in content sold for it. You don't see them handing out free copies of Carrara willy-nilly, do you?."
You are correct sir
This is a long existing business model called "loss leader" which is perfectly legitimate in western economies.
Consider that Samsung & Amazon etc. sells mobile devices at way under unit cost (sometimes "free") based on the calculation of recouping the loss in Data fees or content purchases.
But IMHO it seems that some wish to imply that DAZ's implementation of this same business model is somehow "deceptive" or "bait &switch"
..and BTW it is theoreticaly possible to get Daz Studio& genesis figures free and create your own clothing content with some free external modeling program with powerful tools... like Blender perhaps.