consumer573 posted at 1:05PM Sun, 01 December 2019 - #4371879

EClark1894 posted at 4:49AM Sun, 01 December 2019 - #4371875

consumer573 posted at 4:21AM Sun, 01 December 2019 - #4371870

So, in a nod to Ohki, the phone home routine just makes it more of a hassle for legit users the same way raising the price of the software does. And, again, Poser is not a stand alone program. It really depends upon the artist content, and vice versa. Over the long term, why on earth would anyone continue buying hundreds or thousands of dollars of artist content if they had an unreliable program that could quit any day?

Well, one ansewr: If you're online it's transparent to you so you don't care. But then one day you encounter a glitch, maybe you bought a new computer or ipad, or maybe you're in the middle of working on something and exicted to go finish it...and then can't access Poser when you expect to. You go through hoops to get it re-started, maybe half a day, maybe a week, you have to PROVE you're a legit owner (where is that serial number? why doesn't the help desk write back? should I wait or go out now?) and it strikes you how much you've spent as a Dazaholic, or Renderhead, or whatever, and you come to a conclusion: that you're sooo stupid to have bought all that content that could be cut off so easily.

In the current business envrionment, that's when you slap your head and say "I should've gone DAZ!"

So I fight for Poser.

For the record, piracy, even in the real world, does exist. I know people who have stolen cable TV, water, and even electricity. They "jailbreak" Roku to get free streaming. It doesn't make it right.

BTW, gate, I do have you listed in my Directory as a vendor owned website. Considering how you obviously feel about paying for stuff, do you pay for that website, or is it pirated?

Earl, I'm saying I feel bondware is trying to set up a dam to curtail piracy. I believe you can spend that effort, but this is a niche market. Direct the flow rather than set up a dam to get a bigger market for artist products which is where I believe Bondware's real business model is supposed to be, isn't it?

BTW Please don't goad Gate. :) He's passionate.

Not sure if anyone chooses to put in copy protection without reason, its a barrier for paying customers too when it breaks and takes up support time that could be better spent on fixing more useful things. Developing the software takes money. If Poser was free and and new dev was funded by the content market I'd be laughing as I don't buy much content but this approach does not seem good to me. Reducing the amount of money going into dev by dropping the license fee will reduce the number of enhancements and bug fixes so we all lose out in the long term. Maybe there is scope to mix the two approaches, someone who buys x amount of content get's poser free.