megaionstorm opened this issue on Nov 08, 2006 · 36 posts
joemccarron posted Fri, 10 November 2006 at 2:09 PM
Quote - > Quote - Or they could just impliment something like this to start...
sure, its only another $195.00 added to the cost.
You are looking at creating software as if it has the same cost per unit as other items like cars. It costs so much to build each car. On top of that you have the costs of designing it. Then you ad your profit and you get your price.
With software there is no or a negligible cost to building each software item sold. People can download it. So all you have to do is distribute the cost of designing it over the number of copies you expect to sell. If, it costs $x to make this software, you build in a profit and take (x+ a profit) divided by the number of copies you expect to sell, and that should be your price. So unless you know how many copies you expect to sell you can't know what the price would or should be.
Now when we look at CG skin we know that the makers can only sell it to people who use 3dsmax 6,7,or 8. So first you seperate out the people who use those versions of 3ds max and then, of those 3ds max users, you seperate out only those who will want that particular product.
If this same technology cost the same to put in Poser then EF* would price it somewhere around the cost of development plus some profit divided by the number of copies of poser they expect to sell. If they expect to sell 100xs as many copies of poser7 than the makers of CG skin expect to sell thier product then the added cost to poser would only increase $1.95.
If on the other hand, EF expected to sell 100xs fewer copies as the makers of CG skin then they would have to charge an extra $19,500.00 per copy.
All I am saying is you can not look at how much a feature costs in one progam and assume it woudl cost the same if put in poser.
*Yes I assumed it woudl cost the same for EF to put it in poser as the makers of cg skin to put it in 3dsmax. Thsi assumption could be wrong. If it costs more then the price in poser will have to go up. If it cost less then the price in poser coudl be lower. That variable is really beside the overall point.