On 21-12-2014 8:39, clipka wrote:
> Am 21.12.2014 um 05:21 schrieb Patrick Elliott:
>
>>> The thing is, SmithMicro is apparently making most of their money by
>>> selling the Poser software, and they know that content-wise they have
>>> tremendous allies in 3rd party shops, so they have no interest in
>>> keeping their user base limited to the SmithMicro shop. Daz3D on the
>>> other hand is obviously making most of their money by selling content,
>>> so they have great interest in binding customers to /their/ shop alone,
>>> which they do by making /their/ stuff install like a charm; and as far
>>> as I'm concerned, this strategy works perfectly.
>>>
>> Except, in this case, they have pissed me off enough, since just
>> installing their bloody program is such a pain, never mind something
>> else, that I don't plan to buy any newer version. So.. yeah, real
>> winning strategy there. At least, as Doctor John comments about
>> Microsoft, *they* had people by the balls, since there just wasn't any
>> other option but Windows, mostly. Smith Micro doesn't even have the lint
>> from people's underwear to grab hold of.
>
> They've lost me to Daz3D quite a while ago already. For me the thing
> was, in the end I'd buy 3rd party content anyway, so why buy a new piece
> of software every few years when I can get the competitor's product for
> free.
>
Just for good measure, and to give another view, I never had problems 
installing Poser although I agree it is not of the most comprehensive. 
And as I almost never buy third party things, Daz3D is out for me. And 
for the fact that it feels pretty basic to me and cannot do several of 
the things I want Poser to do, like self-made dynamic clothes for 
instance, which is sooo easy in Poser.

Patrick, you complained about time limited downloads, you can remedy 
that by backing up your installation files. Re-installing is no problem 
then and the key (if you kept it safe too) will work without complain. 
However, maybe I misunderstood.

Thomas

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