Yesterday was a bit of a frustrating day for me.
I have a ton of projects I’m working on all at once, and yesterday I couldn’t seem to get anywhere with any of them.
One of my ongoing projects has been to work more with my Maitreya mesh body (which I love!) and see if I could figure out how to tint it to match my current Laqroki skin.
Thinking that I could just go grab an RGB value from somewhere, I went looking.
I found about 15 different ones, and none of them worked.
Sigh.
So, because I had a picture I wanted to finish, I ended up wearing the Glam Affair skin I bought.
It looks good.
It looks really good.
It just doesn’t look like ‘me.’
I spent a little bit of time feeling sorry for myself because Laq doesn’t make appliers for the Maitreya body.
But I totally understand why they don’t.
It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad applier world out there right now.
I have no idea how content creators keep up with it all.
It has got to be maddening.
I’ve made some clothing myself (using both system and mesh templates) and I’ve considered selling them on MP, just to have a few L$ trickling in now and again.
I haven’t, so far, because I have absolutely no intention of learning how to do appliers.
Which, I assume, would hinder sales.
Everyone wants something for nothing these days.
Was it annoying to have to pay for the GA SLink appliers separately from the skin I purchased?
Yes.
Do I understand why the creator does that?
Yes. Absolutely.
Time is money.
After watching my daughter (a ‘digital native’) struggle to learn Blender, I have no doubt of the time and skill it requires to create good content for SL.
That said, I also have to watch my own bottom line.
So sometimes that amazing headdress from !dM is totally worth the $300L in gacha tries.
Sometimes it isn’t.
That’s my own decision, and not something I would ever complain to a creator about.
They price their products based on many factors, including difficulty, creation time, overhead expenses, etc.
Are some products priced ridiculously high (imo)?
Yes.
Does that mean I complain about it?
Hell, no.
It just means I don’t buy it. 😀
*For a content creator’s view of this issue, read this post by Sian.
She makes some incredibly amazing stuff, and it’s interesting to hear about this issue from a creator’s perspective.
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