Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: An open letter to Daz

wdupre opened this issue on Jul 02, 2002 ยท 36 posts


TigerD posted Thu, 04 July 2002 at 7:27 PM

Good business sense, indeed! Let's get this right, shall we, DAZ had no problem with Tailor, originally, even though they apparently anticipated a problem. Hell, they even sell the damn thing. DAZ then decide that certain Tailor morphed clothing can cover Mike's entire body, thus giving you, in effect Mike 2 without having to buy him. Fair enough so far? Now here's the fly in the ointment. DAZ decide that this is a problem WHEN THEY DECIDE TO SELL A TAILOR MORPHED CLOTHING PAK FOR MIKE!!! "It's ok to distribute a bodysuit that circumvents the need to buy Mike 2, as long as it's sold at the DAZ site?" just about sums this whole thing up. Surely, we can now purchase this for a third of the price of Mike and transfer morphs to our collective hearts content. If this really is a problem, why have DAZ given us the means to do it? I wonder if Vicky's Tailor morphed clothing will become a problem when DAZ sells a Tailor morphed clothing pak for her. My guess is that if the morph is created without Tailor, DAZ is fine with it because they cannot duplicate it anyway, so they can't lose sales on their own non-Tailor morphed items. They are NOT protecting sales of Mike 2, but of the Tailor morphed clothing Pack. Of course, this is their right, but a pretty underhanded way of doing it, and a way that may very well backfire on them. Maybe they realise that they cannot copyright the morphs that Tailor produces. As X-perimentalman pointed out, the effect of this is actually likely to limit sales of Mike 2. It is a shame that they have taken this route, because they do produce some pretty good quality stuff, but if they now feel that they can stop us from producing much needed clothing to fit their Millenium figures, this whole 'community' idea falls apart. That is, it would if we really needed them. "if they want to play hardball, they might very well find that this community has a world-class baseball team of it's own." I like that, and couldn't have put it better myself.