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Subject: Poser Products pulled from the store,WHY?

Artist3D opened this issue on Oct 23, 2002 ยท 66 posts


Jack D. Kammerer posted Thu, 24 October 2002 at 3:15 PM

You know, I've been sitting here trying to come up with a theory as to why those products might've been pulled and they are... 1.) DAZ Pulled them...: Maybe getting ready for the release of Victoria 3, they didn't want to support a product several years old and that has been upgraded twice. Perhaps they are planning on releasing a Victoria/Michael 2 CD package to put in their place. 2.) Renderosity removed them...: If this is the case, then I see some bad mojo coming as a result of this. Considering that a majority of content sold in Rosity's marketplace is based off of DAZ Geometery or products. If Renderosity did remove those products, just what kind of message are they trying to send to DAZ or what is the meaning behind such action?? One might be willing to think as I do... and please remember this is only my opinion here: Renderosity becomes partnered with CL in the form of Content Paradise... or even perhaps even closer partnered than that by way of becoming a CL owned website (hence the Beta Test forum only being housed here on Renderosity by Curious Labs and not at any other website also the sheer volume of DAZ's software vs P5 threads or P5 complaint threads being moved or burried). There is no secret as far as the relationship between Curious Labs and DAZ and lack of any support offered to Poser 5 from DAZ. In that case, since this place has become a CL partner, one could see DAZ's involvement in Renderosity's store (and the program that they are working on) as a Competitor to Curious Labs/Renderosity. Futhermore, having once been a Merchant here myself, a Merchant in the Renderosity Store entitles that Broker to have access to the hidden Vendor/Merchant forum. By removing DAZ from any brokerage in Rosity's store, removes their ability to visit that forum any longer which may be the staging area for Content Paradise and the partnership with CL. Remove DAZ from it, DAZ is then kept in the dark regarding any move Renderosity decides to make in relation to Content Paradise and solid Partnership with CL. Now, if that is the case and DAZ hadn't pulled their own product, one would have to venture a guess as to 1.) Who is next to be removed... 2.) Just what is being discussed between CL and the owners of Renderosity and why haven't we, as a Community, been included (at least in some part)in this... 3.) What would DAZ's response to this be? Considering that the majority of product for sale in Rosity's marketplace is based off of DAZ related products, I don't really see TPB at Renderosity being stupid enough to remove DAZ's involvement from their online store and risk DAZ saying something like: "Okay, if you don't want our support and see us as competition, then remove the support of our products from your store." That would surely kill Renderosity and Content Paradise even before it opened. No, I think DAZ probably removed their store products themselves. I could be wrong (I hope not) but I guess we wont know unless DAZ comes in and tells us they removed them themselves or otherwise. Jack