IceEmpress posted at 6:50PM Thu, 04 February 2016 - #4253114

but I suspect that the lack of non Dawn/Dusk/Luna products is a product of the fact it is a very small team and the reasons behind why that team was born.

Yes. It's a little more than that, though. Some of the familiar faces from here and DAZ are also present on Hivewire, but SOLELY for the sake of making Dawn/Dusk/Luna/Hivewire Horse products-- very few vendors use Hivewire as their main site (Nerd3D, Lisa's Botanicals, and Ken Gilliand are the only three who come to mind. SF Design sells the same products on Hivewire that they sell here. There's one other vendor who sells a lot of V4 stuff, but she sells the same products on other sites, too.) I do agree that they are very different in some ways, my main point is that I am not familiar enough with Hivewire to give much analysis beyond that I think their forum rules are a bit different. I have never bought anything from Hivewire-- I would like to, but the stuff I like (Songbirds and Lisa's Botanicals) are really expensive, and the point system is useless to me at this time (as I have not bought anything) The only time I saw stuff on sale was at Christmas, and I had already spent a ton at DAZ and RDNA (in addition, the Songbirds stuff was STILL pretty expensive even with the holiday sale) and their sales never seem to be very high-- only 30% off, 40% at the holidays, which isn't enough for a first-time buyer.

Some of the song birds and the botanicals can appear to be pricey but only in comparison with general releases. I think the point it that they are very high quality and there is not much available in competition with such products. Many of the dynamic dresses are around the $6 mark which is hardly pricey. The western tack I spoke of it on sale at less than $12 and one look at the promo video to see what is included shows just how much you get for your money.

The forums tend to be very friendly and welcoming and sales wise they are very family orientated and there is little to shock anyone, not something that could be said for some of the images at Rendo recently.

 

 

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