TalmidBen opened this issue on Sep 03, 2002 ยท 59 posts
Jack D. Kammerer posted Wed, 04 September 2002 at 9:27 PM
Hmmm... Personally I don't see this as any sort of error on DAZ's part for mentioning this. Obviously, people would eventually ask why Victoria, Michael or other figures weren't adapted to Poser 5 and simply stating: "It was equitable for our company to do so" would've created a huge sh!t storm of the likes which we are seeing now. DAZ customers would've felt they were "put off" by DAZ for not making the products P5 face room ready, most likely complaining that DAZ was too cheap to create supportive products for P5. By throwing out the figure qouted to them by CL, this tells the customers of DAZ that the cost to make DAZ characters P5 face room ready was more than readily attainable. The only way in which to recoup that high cost would be to raise the cost of those items, which would go against what DAZ represents to this Community. DAZ reconizes that the Community is primarily made up of individuals on tight budgets and that the cost to make a product and then have CL make it Face Room ready, would knock the price of that figure up well past $100 Having seen the sales of Dina and other tailor made characters, I can promise you that $30k would be the more than the entire sales that character could generate. At that cost, I don't see Jim Burton taking SMV (or his other excellent figures) or Diane taking Dina (and other figures) paying for this service to be added to their models either. No, I am glad that DAZ informed us of how much it would cost to have this added to a figure. It tells me that they would rather forego that feature (at least till it is more cost effective) and keep their products at attainable prices for all of us, and now others know how much that service would cost. Jack