Forum: Poser 12


Subject: Free version of Poser a benefit to vendors?

davo opened this issue on Apr 21, 2021 ยท 98 posts


ChromeStar posted Mon, 26 April 2021 at 2:45 PM

parkdalegardener posted at 2:16PM Mon, 26 April 2021 - #4417732

I understand. I think there are way more reasons as to why DAZ assets have a larger market share than Bondware has, than just a free giveaway. Expecting a company that just shelled out for a property, that only earns by offering for sale copies; to offer it free is highly unlikely and extremely bad business practice.

I don't think it's true that Renderosity only earns money off Poser by selling copies, since they also sell content. But it's a good point that they just spent the money and will need to recoup that. A free version of Poser might make sense at some point, and I think it would be worth looking at, but it probably doesn't make sense right away.

There was also a suggestion earlier to make Poser 11 free. I don't think that would be a good idea either, because with the changes in Superfly and Python, the upgrade from 11 to 12 may be a little rough. You want new users to start in 12 right away so they never experience that transition at all.