I'm with Ani here, the day Reallusion goes to a subscription service is the day I leave their products for good. I cannot stand that model. Let us please just buy the software and be done with it. 

My "NEWEST" Latest:)  Movie Made With Amaaaazing iClone


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It is not clear what you are trying to say. You want RL to work for nothing and not pay their developers? And spare me from subscription services...:blink:

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way to much money the technology is speeding up fast a little patience can save you $990.00 U.S. and also improvements with data smith and c4d subscription service could TEACH iClone alot i.e. plugin subscription service for live link hint, hint  or one day revamp iclone so we can save export time oh MY FAULT no export no money made.

     

I bought Live link last week at 699 so I've already saved $200 of it's price this week. 

That said, after 1 test I was solddddddd.
Before:
A 30-45 minute FBX import that didn't do what I wanted it to or look/do any thing like it did in iclone.
After:
Loaded perfectly identical from iclone into unreal in under 3 minutes.
I actually screamed out FUCK YAAA at 1 am when it "Just Worked" exactly how I wanted it to.
Less time working on the How, more time working on the What I am creating.

That $700 plug in erased 2 months of failure instantly. Anything that speeds up my pipeline is worth it even at the full price. 
Money = Time.  The fastest path that gets me there just got easier.
Yes it blows they make you pay at ever inch of the pipeline but this one is different.

Hobbyist vs Professional and I can't afford the time not having this plug in.
My release window is very tight and looking at the time saving that $700 makes total perfect business sense 

Ah the Unreal side of it was, not the plugin itself

This applies especially to those that want first. 
They will lower later on, but first they will stre--t--ch out the higher price!

They can always sell at $200 later and by that point people will be like, "Eh, why not....it's so much cheaper now...."

See?  They get both the big spenders and the bargain hunters, just not all at once.  It happens over the life span of the product.
What they do that is smart also, is they create a hot market by lowering the price at the beginning, so you feel you better get it before it goes up. 
They could though, to your point, capture a lot more purchases at the beginning if they lowered it more aggressively. 

I see it they are doing this to make $.  And this is a very good thing because it drives the innovation.

Wasn't that free on the Unreal Marketplace at some point?

And they have the means to pay such a price.

Looks good, but the price is insane for what it is.