shedofjoy opened this issue on Nov 06, 2017 ยท 173 posts
wolf359 posted Wed, 08 November 2017 at 9:48 AM
Poser and Studio though share a market. If Poser disappeared tomorrow, what would be the reason to give Studio away fro free?
The same reason that exists now ..a low cost of entry for CONTENT CREATORS and new users to have a place to sell and buy and use daz CONTENT straight away.
Right now, that decision is based on the inducement to lure new users and old users away from Poser and to using Studio. What led me to this conclusion? History, dude. Studio wasn't always free, you remember. Used to cost roughly the same as Poser. The free part of it was only supposed to last a short while. I didn't say this, DAZ did..
You are revising history or possibly projecting your own fantasies to supplant the actual facts.
Daz promised there will away be a free "base version" of studio there has always been a free version, even during that period when the so called "pro"version was over $300 USD near the end of Dan farr's tenure.
The new parent company took over and realized that a constant income stream can be had from new daily & weekly figure content in thier store.
They quicky dropped the price of DS "pro" to zero and offered a full refund/or store credit to people who paid for the "Pro "version within a certain grace period
The reason I believe that Studio would no longer be free if Poser disappeared is because there's no reason to make it free.
This is yet more wishful thinking that is based on your personal desire to believe that the QUALITY of the native figures are not a factor at all only the Free price of the program makes Daz studio an attractive option
This also assumes that Poser is Daz's only true paid competition this is a false assumption as Iclone Pro is a more viable competior for DAZ inc. as it improves its native figures and supports genesis1,2, 3,8 natively for animation an export to games& other pro applications for rendering. SEE VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDQIxCVcHyM
It would make no sense economically to keep it as a free program.
You say this because your understanding of economic business models is sadly quite limited.
Daz is using a classic, old school "loss leader" business model. You lead with a money losing asset by offering it free .
Free DAZ studio. Free Smart phone hand set Free bowl of peanuts at the bar
You recoup your initial loss with Paid figure content , morphs & props(Daz)
paid monthly Data Charges and other useless add ons like"live" TV(phones)
Ridiculously over priced& watered down drinks to quench the thirst caused by those dry starchy "free"peanuts (the Bar).