gate posted at 12:34PM Fri, 19 February 2016 - #4255731

Well I will try my luck in here as I tried to write my personal impression in the DAZ forums but it seems there unless it does not go in direction sporting there ideas that Comments are censured or removed.

I realized the past month's that content for Daz or Poser have drastically decreased there amount, it seems that the Content Creators are loosing there motivation meaning that there are also less potential customers. Also I realize that the quality of Poser/Ds have decreased Drastically. I guess it is all caused through the Drastic aggressive changes of Daz stores justifying there acts as fight against piracy. I can't agree with there arguments as for me it looks more like a desperate act to gain control over the market why do I get to this conclusion? Well as a Content creator " Artist " I know how much Time energy I have to spend to get a few Products out and naturally the Stores get a big part of the Cake , regimentations in Stores are set up as a rent space for Content sales but Vendors Creators are treated like Employees. Rental is 50% of the sale but the artist has the whole work and is the owner of the sold creation all this is ok as every Individual can decide him self if he wants to play the game or not. To the Point : what is Daz doing well he tries to secure hes income respect-less to what content creators think about it taking controll over content that does not belong to him. If I rent a store in a City selling vegetables that I Plant I rent some space to sell my stuff but I am my own boss about my products, In the stores it sure is mentioned to work this way but it is not treated that way especially not at DAZ. Com-paired to a Year ago it seems that only half of creations reach the store platforms and it seems to me that less great creators are willing to keep on playing that game. So actually all this stff about encryption does not seem to be to support costumers , protect Creators from piracy , either to prevent Piracy , it is only in the Interest of the Store to grow and secure there income. makes me think who is the Pirate ?

That's is an interesting argument, a change that primarily benefits PA's is making PA want to leave the market?

Also I think you will find the release rate at Daz 3D of products has increased not declined. The amount of PA's selling Daz Studio content has increased and not declined. I am actually a PA at Daz3D and I can personally say a lot of what you have said here is well and truly miles from the mark. The sales agreement is in no way similar to renting a store. The equivalent of that would be the marketplace stating you need to pay $1000 a month regardless of the income of your store. So if you only earn $600 in sales you need to give it all to the store plus add an amount of debt per month while you continue to trade. In effect making sales a cost to the seller not to the market and forcing creatives to continue to produce or find the cost of their store means they need to withdraw. I have never actually spoken to a Daz PA that doesn't feel that Daz 3D is entitled to every penny of the 50% of sales they take and over the years I have spoken to many including a lot of the major names in the industry. The %50 share is in exchange for their(The marketplaces) site hosting, marketing and sales efforts, Promotion of new releases as well as back catalogue sales, Payment services, Customer security, PA Perks, Platform development etc etc.

The fact that you consistently refer to Daz PA's as Vendors seems to indicate your talking from speculation and not experience.

As a PA at Daz I can actually say from my experience most of what your saying is unfounded and seems to be mostly an effort at smearing for some unstated reason or gripe.

There is an old saying in the business world - %50 of a something is worth more than 100% of nothing...