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RIP in peace hivewire

TheKDTheKD Posts: 2,702
edited November 2020 in The Commons

It is with a heavy heart that Lisa, myself and our HiveWire team announce the closing of our HiveWire store.

We very much appreciate the many years of support to our store and the wonderful products that have been showcased and sold there.

Looks like another one is biting the dust. Such a bummer, less comepetition is never a good thing. 

 

We are making arrangements for customers to have till the end of January 2021 to be able to download all content they have purchased, even though the actual store will close on January 4th.

Be sure if you are a customer there to grab the latest version of any products you have for your own archival purposes.

 

Link to the announcement over there https://community.hivewire3d.com/threads/hivewire-3d-store-officially-closing.4333/

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  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,746
    edited November 2020

    Oh man. :( That's a sad thing for sure. Competition can be a good and healthy thing. Plus HiveWire has some good animals. It would be great if they were able to move some of their content here though. Hopefully it's something they will consider. It would be a real shame if those products were just not available anywhere anymore.

    Edit: Where is the announcement? I can't find it.

    Edit 2: Thanks TheKD for adding the link to the announcement. :)

    Post edited by 3Diva on
  • ZilvergrafixZilvergrafix Posts: 1,385
    3Diva said:

    Oh man. :( That's a sad thing for sure. Competition can be a good and healthy thing. Plus HiveWire has some good animals. It would be great if they were able to move some of their content here though. Hopefully it's something they will consider. It would be a real shame if those products were just not available anywhere anymore.

    from Chris: "We have made arrangements to have our HiveWire products available at the Renderosity marketplace. We currently also have our products available at the Reallusion store for their specific software formats." 

    Chris looks familiar, was him on Daz before right?

  • TheKDTheKD Posts: 2,702

    Yeah, pretty sure chris was the chris from here at some point. Sorry 3diva, added the announcement link to the OP. Meant to include it but forgot.

  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,746
    Zilvergrafix said:
    3Diva said:

    Oh man. :( That's a sad thing for sure. Competition can be a good and healthy thing. Plus HiveWire has some good animals. It would be great if they were able to move some of their content here though. Hopefully it's something they will consider. It would be a real shame if those products were just not available anywhere anymore.

    from Chris: "We have made arrangements to have our HiveWire products available at the Renderosity marketplace. We currently also have our products available at the Reallusion store for their specific software formats." 

    Chris looks familiar, was him on Daz before right?

    Oh, I see. Bummer that the didn't choose to migrate their products to Daz3D.

    I don't know who Chris is and I don't even know where you guys are reading this info from. lol 

  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,746
    TheKD said:

    Yeah, pretty sure chris was the chris from here at some point. Sorry 3diva, added the announcement link to the OP. Meant to include it but forgot.

    Thank you for the link. :)

  • Noah LGPNoah LGP Posts: 2,617
    edited November 2020

    We will have a final, FINAL storewide sale beginning the first of December and will run til the first week in January 2021.

    Just I read this sentence.

    It's sad but it's not the end of the adventure yet, new products are still in development.

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  • LeanaLeana Posts: 11,835
    edited November 2020
    Zilvergrafix said:

    Chris looks familiar, was him on Daz before right?

    He and Dan Far created Daz3D wink

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  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,781

    What a bummer! Their animals are top notch quality, I was really waiting for an elk and a elephant. crying

    I followed their development threads and always hoped they would add more people to the team to increase the production output.

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 11,835
    edited November 2020
    FSMCDesigns said:

    What a bummer! Their animals are top notch quality, I was really waiting for an elk and a elephant. crying

    I followed their development threads and always hoped they would add more people to the team to increase the production output.

    They will continue creating content, it will be sold at Rendo (at least for HW originals)

    Post edited by Leana on
  • AlmightyQUESTAlmightyQUEST Posts: 2,005

    Just a, uh, note to add based on the selected quote from Dan's post above:

    "We will have a final, FINAL storewide sale beginning the first of December and will run til the first week in January 2021. Many of these products will NOT be moving forward to be published or made available elsewhere, perhaps due to the age of the product, quality, or acceptance value to other stores."

    So, while some products will be finding new homes, they might not all be. So it's still a good reason to check on what you want from there before then.

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,781
    Leana said:
    FSMCDesigns said:

    What a bummer! Their animals are top notch quality, I was really waiting for an elk and a elephant. crying

    I followed their development threads and always hoped they would add more people to the team to increase the production output.

    They will continue creating content, it will be sold at Rendo (at least for HW originals)

    Oops, guess I should read it all first, LOL

    Good to know, maybe I'll see a new elk or elephant afterall.

  • ArtAngelArtAngel Posts: 1,797

    This is very sad news. As a former business owner I see it as a dream failed. I own some of their products (all excellent quality) and it's good to know their work will continue and be available on RR. Sometimes overhead and operating costs exceeds the budget and eats the profits. It's a rough time for everyone, especially for all businesses, and it seems obvious HW still want to be part of the 3D industry, and will be in a more limited way at RR. I can't help but notice how some of the discussions have been pretty harsh and non-supportive of even DAZ as it stuggles thru its troublesome times. Hopefully we can all learn to be kinder & more supportive, because one never knows the hardships that others might be enduring.

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,675
    edited November 2020

    I was hoping for the chihuahua. It never arrived. Fortunately there is one at philosophers egg now. Sorry to hear the store will close.

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  • SevrinSevrin Posts: 6,310

    They've started selling HW originals at Rendo for a while now.  I hope their artists find good homes.

  • ArtAngelArtAngel Posts: 1,797
    Serene Night said:

    I was hoping for the chihuahua. It never arrived. Fortunately there is one at philosophers egg now. Sorry to hear the store will close.

    I want small dogs sooooo bad. Thank you.

  • lilweeplilweep Posts: 2,561

    a lot of the content on these satellite stores are so bad in quality they are not in direct competition with Daz anyway.

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,675
    ArtAngel said:
    Serene Night said:

    I was hoping for the chihuahua. It never arrived. Fortunately there is one at philosophers egg now. Sorry to hear the store will close.

    I want small dogs sooooo bad. Thank you.

    The philosophers egg pup is cute and the newborn pup skin is great on the chi. Enjoy smiley

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,781
    lilweep said:

    a lot of the content on these satellite stores are so bad in quality they are not in direct competition with Daz anyway.

    I disagree when it comes to HW products. Some of the artists selling at their store used to sell at DAZ, so the quality isn't subpar. Personally I prefer their dog and cat models over the DAZ ones. I liked the HW horse better as well till Linday come out with their version for the horse 2. Variety, options and competition are always a good thing IMO..

  • lilweeplilweep Posts: 2,561
    FSMCDesigns said:
    lilweep said:

    a lot of the content on these satellite stores are so bad in quality they are not in direct competition with Daz anyway.

    I disagree when it comes to HW products. Some of the artists selling at their store used to sell at DAZ, so the quality isn't subpar. Personally I prefer their dog and cat models over the DAZ ones. I liked the HW horse better as well till Linday come out with their version for the horse 2. Variety, options and competition are always a good thing IMO..

    well the daz cat is absolutely deformed and hideous, so no arguments there.

  • ZilvergrafixZilvergrafix Posts: 1,385
    AlmightyQUEST said:
    So, while some products will be finding new homes, they might not all be.

    In some way I remebered the Sanctum Art figures, lucky me I got when available. 

  • ZilvergrafixZilvergrafix Posts: 1,385
    lilweep said:

    a lot of the content on these satellite stores are so bad in quality they are not in direct competition with Daz anyway.

    well you can buy on Turbosquid...now.

  • butterflyfishbutterflyfish Posts: 1,270

    Wow. This is sad news. 

  • MelissaGTMelissaGT Posts: 2,611
    edited November 2020

    I literally just bought something the other day. Guess I'll have to re-download everything and make sure it gets backed up in case I have a system meltdown at some point. Hopefully the animal stuff will all show up on Renderosity...I know the horse and cat and dog stuff has (and to add to confusion, I've bought about half of it on Rendo and the other half on the HW site, so it's always been confusing which pieces I had or didn't have). The bird stuff is also good...I've been waiting for the Raven/Crow pack to get updated for Iray. 

    I only keep hope hope hoping that AM will set up Catalyzer presets for the HiveWire animals...because I'd soooo pay. 

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  • MelissaGTMelissaGT Posts: 2,611
    Zilvergrafix said:
    lilweep said:

    a lot of the content on these satellite stores are so bad in quality they are not in direct competition with Daz anyway.

    well you can buy on Turbosquid...now.

    I gave up on Turbosquid because it's just so friggen expensive. 

  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670

    i saw the prices for some human characters on Turbosquid.   $249 for a female character during the black friday sale?  It is only in obj 3DS Max format.  Hivewire has some characters and skin textures that work in Daz Studio.

  • IvyIvy Posts: 7,165

    Wow Shocking. Really sad news indeed.

  • KnittingmommyKnittingmommy Posts: 8,191

    That's upsetting news. I appreciate the heads up though. I just downloaded what few things I'd purchased over there. It's sad when places like that shut down. Thankfully, I didn't have much from over there.

    My suggestion for everyone is to have multiple ways to backup your purchases in case something happens since you won't be able to go back to get them after they shut down complete. As someone who lost a lot of RDNA stuff that never migrated over to the Daz store when my computer and backup drives were stolen recently, it pays to invest in cloud backup as well. Lesson learned. Backing stuff up to keep at home just doesn't cut it anymore.

  • AllenArtAllenArt Posts: 7,172

    Damn :(

    Laurie

  • ANGELREAPER1972ANGELREAPER1972 Posts: 4,518

    do you think some of the content will be bought and brought over here? They did sell some stuff here at one stage the Hw3d Big Cat, Cub, Panther and Cougar till they were removed will those come back here - I already bought them here day 1 of release here. So is Rendo and share CG the only ones left? Kinda like Adobe/Microsoft owning everything

  • Lothar WeberLothar Weber Posts: 1,611

    Ohhhhh crying sad. Just bought the tiger and the toucans. Was hoping that the other birds could have Iray updates. 
    good luck to all of you at HW heart

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