Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: any news from Nerd, what direction PP15?

MistyLaraCarrara opened this issue on Jun 03, 2015 · 355 posts


pumeco posted Sat, 27 June 2015 at 4:10 PM

@Ssgbryan
I had no idea they'd even brought it up before, I hardly ever visit the DAZ forums now caus ei'm banned (and I've never managed to persuade Richard to pull a few strings for me - even though he can see how well behaved I am these days).  Anyway, I reckon I only visit DAZ once every 2-3 months, and even then, it's only to catch-up with what my peasant friends are up to on the Bryce forum.

Nevertheless, I'm not surprised it didn't go down well if DAZ already tried it on.  The fact that they tried it on though, means that it was part of their plans, and very likely still is.  If I were to hazard a guess I'd say they tried it on, but felt they wrenlt in solid enough position to face the backlash.  But the more peopkle they can get hooked on Genesis (which is effectively DAZ's bait), the more confident they will become.  If they try it again, next time you might not be so lucky, they'll probably stick it out.

@Richard
Interesting, but DRM is something the public has had enough of already.  Should they implement it, the same thing will happen to them as will happen to Apple eventually.  They see a sudden boost in profit brought about by using a business model they should not be allowed to use.  And rather than being sustainable, it could eventually cost them their business (and reputation).  The funny thing is, while DAZ and SM play these stupid games with apparent zero regard for the customer, there is the MakeHuman/Blender combo that is genuinely designed by the users for the users.

If DAZ and SM keep this up, the MakeHuman/Blender workflow will become the norm sooner than they might expect it to.

Already, it's as easy as designing your figure in MakeHuman, choosing a pre-built rig, and hitting export.  Load that figure into Blender with a single button and you have a fully-rigged and weight-mapped, custom-designed figure without licence restrictions.  And it works, flawlessly.  I'm all for supporting commercial ventures if the product does what I want and it actually works properly.  But the way DAZ and SM are going, they're doing themselves no favours.

If they keep it up, they're going to find more and more people have the same attitude as I do.