Glitterati3D posted at 9:54AM Sat, 20 July 2019 - #4357539

ssgbryan posted at 8:56AM Sat, 20 July 2019 - #4357518

The majority of Poser vendors here are still supporting V4 as their main breadwinner. Any demands to change that falls on deaf ears.

This whole post is nothing more than your typical screed against vendors, but this line especially is so old and so tired and so not true, I have to respond.

Here's a clue for you: I made more sales in 2.5 WEEKS on Renderosity with La Femme, than I made in ** 2 YEARS** at Hivewire on Dawn, Dusk and Luna content.

So, stick that in your pipe and smoke it!

I have to say this is true for me as well.

I loved Dawn - and more importantly, it was wonderful to work with the HW3d people, so much so that I actually teared up a little when I told them I was gonna be a Renderosity-exclusive vendor when LF came around - but honestly? Renderosity is offering me the same delight in working with them, so I can't justify keeping to the lower sales with Dawn. She is technically great, but she can't really offer me the exposure that a Renderosity-pushed figure can.

And I'm going full sincere here: being angry that a vendor wants sales is like being angry that Disney is forking out a bunch of movies for the money. As an angry anarchist-like not-so-youth-anymore, I hate capitalism as much as the next punk guy, but I still live in it. I gotta pay those bills. Sometimes I'll make something just for the passion of it, but that's when I have enough drive to keep making in my free time the same kind of thing I'm making in my work time. What I CAN do is try to mix my passion with what sells - I'll bring out that fantasy and mix it into the everyday-sexy-stuff that seems to sell better.

Wanting someone to make elderly auntie characters for Poser is all fun and good, but when a vendor spends a month of work making that and only sees like five people actually purchase it, you don't have to think that "vendors aren't creative". You have to think that "vendors aren't willing to work 8h/day for a month for a total of US$30".

And I get that you don't want your passionate hobby to turn into a business. I really do. Still, money is what keeps things running in our society, as sad as that may be - and if we don't keep that money going around, the program will be abandoned. So yeah, you need your beta testers that have an outside look to it and will check the technical things, but you ALSO need your vendor beta testers that will take a look at a thing and think "that's way too complicated for casual users, that's not gonna sell" and similar things.

That's why it's beta testerS, not beta tester singular form. And this strike against vendors isn't gonna get anyone anywhere, it only benefits Poser that we have different types of users for it.

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