Winterclaw opened this issue on Jul 21, 2015 · 146 posts
wolf359 posted Thu, 23 July 2015 at 10:03 AM
"Ahhh, well, it's not gonna matter anyway. The vultures are circling and the carcass is rotting, so we'll soon see how happy the cheerleaders are when DS costs the same as Poser (used to) and figures run $100.00+ a pop."
Just once I would like to see at least a gratuitous attempt to explain the "logic",rationale,or even religous faith in this oft repeated assertion that:
If poser goes away Daz will become some ravenous, price gouging predator that makes people wish for the good old pre-genesis days of milk & honey
I see two likely prevailing scenarios,
First lets start with what would likely happen if SM Closed shop/Dumped poser as abandonware etc. and there were no new versions of poser being released after poser 11/ pro 2015.
The majority of the poser faithful would likely keep& use their current poser version until their computer OS's ( windows 14 or ,Mac OS 13 "yellowstone" or whatever) would no longer run its executable.
Market effect on DAZ = Zero
Some would actually crawl out of their myopic little boxes and venture into the larger more diverse world of 3D figure related rendering.
Market effect on DAZ= temporary,short term uptick in content sales as new DS users rush to get up to date with the latest Genesis iteration,
This would soon be tempered by the inevitable boredom with the same V-chick"booty ware" and "bishyboy" male hair& clothing.
In either scenario I can not see why one would think that the Classic "loss leader"business model ,currently being implemented by DAZ, would inexplicably be abandoned in favor of some punitive,price intensive money grab that would most assuredly chase away the current user base they have so cleverly curated .