"When you can only buy one source for content..."

Did you know that renderosity strongly encourages products to be exclusive to them? I'm betting that they and DAZ are not the only ones who prefer content to be exclusive to their site. It is just good business.

"does it really matter if it is in an industry standard in a content free zone? Let me just pop off to all the other stores you mention and buy V7 a new blouse. What I can't? Damn! a Monopoly is not based on Standards, it is based on what you can buy where."

First, there is no one preventing sales of products for G3 at other brokerages. I am sure that there will be products here for her in the next couple of days as a matter of fact.

"Now they are ditching the hobbyist crowd for the industrial standard/big business crowd,"

That is just well...poop. How does going to an industry standard prevent any hobbyist from continuing to do exactly what they are already doing? Did it prevent people from doing hobby work when people started doing pro work with DAZ figures? When they used genesis with Iclone did that suddenly prevent hobbiest from going on as they always had? Why on earth would anyone be prevented from continuing as a hobby just because more people could use it if they wanted to? Are you thinking that suddenly every content provider who does products for G3 is suddenly going to stop and only do game assets or something? Because that is what it would take for the hobbyists to be "ditched".

"It was a paid product and could easily become one again. Pro version versus Free version. If Daz owned all of the market they would make D/S and their free products whatever price they thought they could get away with.... it is business and they are in it for the money."

Why is it that people forget that out of the life span of Studio it was only pay for for a very short time. DAZ realized that it was a mistake to try and sell it when they did much better financially if it was free. As far as income goes at DAZ content is king and software is secondary.

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