love facerig, first I've heard of this Animaze. Subscription service? Yeah sorry. I'll pass.

Happily pay a reasonable one off fee for software I use, but I'm not going to be nickle and dimed by any developer or publisher for eternity no matter how much I like the company or their products.

There has to be a better way that works for everyone. This will potentially cost you more money in the long run imho.

(I've abandoned so many products and companies over the years because of this kind of thing. Adobe products haven't seen an install on any of my machines since they pulled this stunt.)

Hey bud, do you want your product cracked and pirated, cuz this is how you get your product cracked and pirated.

I have never bought into software as a service and will continue to not do so in the future.
If you need money you should search for other options. With a scheme like this you'll inevitably cause people to either develop free alternatives or use competing products instead.

Honestly, you guys didn't do your due diligence.

This doesn't offer enough to warrant a subscription service. the subscription model works 'fine' for multiplayer games because they are.. *a game*. This isn't a game with hours and hours of content. Now, I can understand for commercial use (streamers, etc) who are making income using this. But for the general person who just wants to mess around with this... It's not gonna jive with people who already own Facerig.

I was gonna upgrade, but this is a deal-breaker for me.

Well I was looking forward to this, but the subscription has turned me away from getting it.

It's a shame to see greed has taken over, I am just going to keep using the original FaceRig program

Originally posted by level94836:

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Bruh, bruh bruh bruh. Facerig had maybe 1 or 2 DLCs you needed to worry about for okay prices. If you're telling me there's MICROTRANSACTIONS in it to, with probably no hope of workshop like the last one, you lost me there chief.

Steam Workshop and subscriptions are included in the free edition.So you only pay for specific avatars if you want. Like with DLCs. For me it makes more sense to pay for an individual avatar I actually want than for a bunch to get the one I want. Also, the workshop is where the music plays either way.

I am not happy about this

Tldr How to get your program pirated to death

Mega oof

Originally posted by Elaq:

I have never bought into software as a service and will continue to not do so in the future.
If you need money you should search for other options. With a scheme like this you'll inevitably cause people to either develop free alternatives or use competing products instead.

ah yes the free alternative, vtuber maker is in development

Originally posted by Eai:

Why are they so angry?
Animaze is free to use, and you can import avatars and more from the Steam Workshop for free. And you can import avatars and more from the Steam Workshop for free. (The official model is unfortunately a few bucks)

"Any FaceRig avatars that came with Facerig, you’ve purchased as DLC, acquired from the Steam workshop, or loaded as custom avatars (i.e., that you created or commissioned from an artist) will continue to work with FaceRig.

Avatar and prop files from FaceRig are not compatible with Animaze. Your Facerig avatar files do not ‘carry over’ to Facerig."

So...any avatar you've got access to in FaceRig won't work in Animaze regardless, unless the developers re-made them inside Animaze.

In order to get your own avatar to work inside Animaze, not only do you have to re-rig/update the avatar with their specific engine, but then you have to pay *them* to import it into their software.

Originally posted by Eai:

You can also use a virtual webcam for streaming. There is a time limit, it's just a matter of rebooting every 90 minutes. If you're thinking of doing a full-blown Twitch streaming, for example, you can pay $20 once and it will work for a year. It's a year before you think about paying for it again.

This is the biggest downside. A software that's "free to use" shouldn't require me to stop what I'm doing every hour and a half to "refresh" it just to get it working again.

Sure, if a streamer is easily pulling in over $500 a month to require the commercial license, they might not even notice the small dent for subscription (unless they're already living payout to payout), but as it is for the "free" version...I feel the time limit needs to be done away with. The subscription could be given extra perks (ie props, special props, special animations or filters) so people who want "more" out of it can get more.

I myself was really looking forward to transitioning from FaceRig to Animaze until I saw that the free version was time-limited-per-session. This text from their news post needs to actually hold its weight:
"The free version of Animaze allows anyone who’s interested to use awesome avatars without ever having to spend a dollar. For advanced users, our subscriptions provide great additional features that make Animaze even more powerful and fun."

subscription models for software are bad, actually, and not good.

guys. it's 20 A YEAR. y'all seriously can't pay the price of a cheap-ass hamburger for this? smh

Originally posted by Scarin', A.D.:

guys. it's 20 A YEAR. y'all seriously can't pay the price of a cheap-ass hamburger for this? smh

That's not the point. Animaze is essentially doing the same thing other virtual camera software is doing, but they want to charge you a subscription fee just to use it for more than 90 minutes at a time, whereas those other pieces of software will do it for *free* and not limit your session time.

I'm personally super disappointed in the subscription model :/ Honestly, it feels like a cash grab at the sudden boom of VTubers. It's unfortunate because it feels like who the subscription model hurts the most is casual users. As someone who just likes to use it every now and then for fun, I'd happily pay $20-30 to own it, but to only get access for a year at that price feels really bad.