Lyne opened this issue on May 07, 2016 ยท 27 posts
Mythocentric posted Mon, 06 June 2016 at 8:26 PM
Hi Tempesta3D! I'm not against vendors creating products solely for Daz Studio or for Poser for that matter, although I am a Poser user almost exclusively because I find Studio somewhat obscure and awkward to use. However the people over at Hivewire3D do offer the best of both worlds, usually in the same product and that can only benefit the market at large. What I probably should have made clearer is the buyers perception of the way Renderosity is heading and that is headlong towards Daz. From my own point of view when I pop in to purchase stuff and find that the 'For you (?)' area of the site offers me nothing but Genesis with the sole exception of one Poser tutorial, despite me buying Poser products almost exclusively (I thinks I've probably bought around 4 or 5 Daz models over the years) I, like anyone, begin to think that Renderosity have either lost the plot, don't really care or, worst are trying to push me towards Daz Studio! As I mentioned before, I bought Prime membership this year for the first time in a good while and looked forward to building up my catalogue of models. That dream soon fizzled out when I had to start ploughing my way through seemingly endless Genesis products to find the buried Poser gems. I doesn't help when you see some of the superb outfits being produced for Genesis much of which I would certainly buy if a Poser version was available. Sad to say, they're not so thats a sale lost. Add up all those disgruntled buyers and thats a lot of dollars. Not a good situation in a highly competative market and one thats very hard to recover from. As I said, the keyword here is perception and the perception appears to be that Renderosity has gone too far and lost the balance of products it used to do so well. Neither is it helpful that we've just lost another major player in the form of RuntimeDNA which has been subsumed by the Daz corporate maw, who have incidentally quietly discarded a good few DNA (Poser-based) vendors in the process! OK, its early days yet and I'm not about to predict death and destruction, but I do believe it is time for Renderosity and its vendors to pause and think about the future and where they want it to go! Its too late to weep about things when the rug has been pulled from under you because you thought the short term was the whole thing!