Quote from: calico on January 19, 2010, 08:50:08 AM
nvseal, I'm planning to get this and the planet pack. My hope was that there might be a discount for someone buying both at the same time. Does this sound like a possibility?
I have thought about possible offers like this but at the moment the only one which I am thinking about seriously would be a discount for buying both for commercial purposes.
Quote from: domdib on January 19, 2010, 09:08:20 AM
In terms of discounts... nvseal, I wondered whether you could sell the two different cloud views as two different products - say at $18 or 13 euros apiece, with the discount on both together at 20.99 euros as now. I think you might get more sales that way.
Something like that might be possible but I am not sure if that is something I would want to do yet. For one thing, both versions of the clouds are not equally valuable (in my opinion). Most of the price of the pack comes from the high fidelity clouds. So while doing something along those lines may get more sales, the total return may, in fact, go down.
Quote from: trailgirl on January 19, 2010, 10:23:03 AM
Really amazing, nvseal! Unfortunately, $152 is a bit steep for me for a commercial license. Fantastic work though.
That is true but the commercial price is primarily targeted towards studios and institutions.
I knew from the get go that the price of both packs would probably be an issue for some people and, I will admit, it was a bit of an experiment on my part. As I have said before, the pricing on both was arrived at after consideration of several factors such as risks of abuse after being sold; the availability of a comparable product; prices of other digital products of similar purposes (for example, prices for Maya or 3Ds models); expected demand for such a product; what people may be willing to pay for it (keeping in mind that most NWDA sales are hobbyist); the small amount of sales history with NWDA (as it is still rather new); the amount of time I have spent learning and acquiring an intuition about the nodes and methods of controlling clouds/displacement distributions etc. Quite frankly, I think both of these are worth more than I am selling them for, but that is also because this is what I'm into
. I had to choose a price that I thought would be a middle ground between the most sales and a better return. I extrapolated various scenarios from NWDA sales data and decided that this price was the best. I don't want to blow my own horn so don't take this the wrong way but I have never seen a commercially available TG 2 global cloud setup of comparable quality – anywhere. Maybe there is, I don't know; I don't pretend to be aware of every Terragen image created around the world. But I decided that, taking all factors into consideration and from the perspective of a poor college student/hobbyist, $30 wasn't too bad for the only one of its kind.
