On 12/21/2014 1:25 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> 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.
>
Installing from disk, or their silly downloads? They didn't even provide 
like.. a text file, like just about anyone else, which said, "These need 
to be unpacked to one place, then run the installer." Its lazy, sloppy, 
and annoying.

> 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.
>
Yeah. Then you lose the disk they are on, or **your hard drive crashes** 
and takes the downloads with it. Oh, and, again, this means nothing, if 
you forgot, from like 2 years ago, when you first installed it, all the 
silly BS you had to do to install it.

Why make it even as difficult as they did? I mean, if you give a damn 
about your customers? Who gives a frak, for example, if the guy with the 
damn password and user name for an account downloads the bloody thing 
again? It just doesn't make any sense to me.

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