arrow1 opened this issue on Dec 01, 2020 ยท 51 posts
wolf359 posted Wed, 02 December 2020 at 6:17 PM
DAZ3D has forbidden any HW contents to be sold at their store >from the very beginning, also forbidding vendors from supporting >HW in any shape or >form.
To be fair I would imagine that Daz PA's sign exclusivity agreements willingly as business people making choices about which Character eco system they feel will make them the most money.
This happens in every business where talent is contracted by a corporation the talent agrees to what is is forbidden in a legally binding contract
They have been openly hostile against HW from the very beginning, >and that is more likely to have contributed for >the HW store >closing over >time.
It is a competitive market space... call it "Hostility" or call it being fiercely competitive.?
Daz used to sell Iclone Pro in the Daz store and had a forum sticky thread on animating GENESIS Characters in Iclone via thier 3DXchange softwware.
But that was when the native Reallusion Avatars Looked like low poly pre-Alpha "Simms" Characters.?
The instant Reallusion introduced thier own Character creator software replete with realistic,Pretty girls and an optional Iray Engine/plugin, Daz immediately burned all bridges with Reallusion.?
And Reallusion partnered with Bondware to sell thier products here in the RMP.?
Business is.. business
In the end commercial content stores tend to shutter for financial reasons even if that means there was not enough income to hire more staff to share the work loadload .