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This was an insta-buy, for me: City Building Facade Shaders

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  • NorthOf45NorthOf45 Posts: 5,546

    They don't pull things from the store to fix them, unless there are serious flaws that disable or inhibit operations, or violate some intellectual property rights, or the PA leaves. Seeing as most of their catalog is still accessible (DO and non-DO) I don't think that last is the case. Maybe, just maybe, pure speculation, those items have been bought out. If so, it will be at least a month before we see them again. Something like that happened with some of Mely3D's products, i.e., Modular Buggy, Race add-on, and Poses, which have been trickling back in over the last few weeks.

  • manekiNekomanekiNeko Posts: 1,414

    NorthOf45 said:

    They don't pull things from the store to fix them, unless there are serious flaws that disable or inhibit operations, or violate some intellectual property rights, or the PA leaves. Seeing as most of their catalog is still accessible (DO and non-DO) I don't think that last is the case. Maybe, just maybe, pure speculation, those items have been bought out. If so, it will be at least a month before we see them again. Something like that happened with some of Mely3D's products, i.e., Modular Buggy, Race add-on, and Poses, which have been trickling back in over the last few weeks.

    how can you "buy out" a digital product? isn't it just a copy from a server that gets generated whenever someone purchases it? i can see how a sweater from a city shop or even an online shop can be bought out - it's physical, when all the pieces are gone well there's none left. but a 3d product? i'm confused...

  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,264
    edited December 2021

    manekiNeko said:

    NorthOf45 said:

    They don't pull things from the store to fix them, unless there are serious flaws that disable or inhibit operations, or violate some intellectual property rights, or the PA leaves. Seeing as most of their catalog is still accessible (DO and non-DO) I don't think that last is the case. Maybe, just maybe, pure speculation, those items have been bought out. If so, it will be at least a month before we see them again. Something like that happened with some of Mely3D's products, i.e., Modular Buggy, Race add-on, and Poses, which have been trickling back in over the last few weeks.

    how can you "buy out" a digital product? isn't it just a copy from a server that gets generated whenever someone purchases it? i can see how a sweater from a city shop or even an online shop can be bought out - it's physical, when all the pieces are gone well there's none left. but a 3d product? i'm confused...

    Daz buys the copyright of the product off of the PA. At the sign of the contract Daz now has all the rights to that said pack. The artist just gets credit for making the pack, nothing more. That pack is no longer allowed to be used by the artist for commercial use or the creation of any commercial product.

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  • NorthOf45NorthOf45 Posts: 5,546

    @manekiNeko, a buy-out (relinquishing ownership) isn't the same as sold-out (out-of-stock), although some would argue that "selling out" could also mean submitting to an offer you can't refuse.

  • manekiNekomanekiNeko Posts: 1,414

    @frank0314 & @NorthOf45 : aaahh ok, now i get it. language barrier, i couldn't tell them apart. now i understand. so the PA receives an interesting sum at once, that they might not have put together for quite a while by selling a product piece by piece even if the product is good and appreciated/sold - but then it's the company's exclusively, who bought it because they realize that in the long run, it's gonna be a success... but they don't need a fast buck, being a "big" company. the artist on the other hand has to live and pay bills.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,464

    This thread is getting pretty speculative, I am going to close it before some particular theory becomes canon and potentially triggers later disappointment.

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