Premium Previews
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 by LyLerK | Discussion: Animated Wallpapers
Currently, downloading a master skin is like picking out attractive people from over a mile away. You never really know what you get until you get a chance to see it up close. With dreams, the tiny preview image and video do so little to represent the beauty of top quality choices while alternatively hiding flaws from lesser quality selections. User comments typically remaining strictly positive, by users who appear to have not even purchased the dream, compounds the level of uncertainty a potential customer already has. I would like to propose a simple new method for releasing premium dreams which would allow higher quality dreams to prosper and lower quality dreams to achieve the attention they deserve.
A Premium Preview would release as a free dream on the same day as the normal Master Skin.
The Master Skin would have a link to the Premium Preview.
The Premium Preview would have the following characteristics:
-Full Resolution
-No More than 10-20 consecutive seconds of dream footage without being interrupted with a full screen "Like my Dream? Purchase the full version" message.
-Shortened length (No smooth transition)
-The opportunity for the author to provide sound in the dream preview which could be used to narrate a small story, help create the environment, describe experiences making the dream, and give direct information to potential customers/supporters.
If users were given the opportunity to briefly examine the quality of Master Skins I cannot see how this could lead to a reductions in sales of worthy dreams. I am not proposing to change the current pricing. I have no problem paying $5.00 for a good cheeseburger--but I do, however, have a problem paying $5.00 for a sneezeburger.
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Reply #22 Friday, April 17, 2009 2:14 PM
Well,I agree with you...a better preview is a good idea and done like you say I dont think they would be worth ripping,they would be a mess as an actual dream.
Rendering out a half rez dream cut down in length wouldnt be hard but I still dont have a way to host it in high enough quality to do them justice...and good idea or not,I dont think Wincustomize is going to do more than they are now.
A full rez version as short as 10 seconds wouldnt tell you much more about the dream I made(4:09)than the still does.
Something I am looking into is maybe packaging 3 dreams together and pricing them at say...5.95.
3.99 is the least you Winc allows you to charge because of all the transaction fees.20%of that is the fees,Winc and the artist split the rest.
Problem is,I'm not sure Winc is set up to allow for a 450mb dream upload with 3 seperate dream files(and 3 times the preview needed)...maybe,I havnt asked yet.
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Reply #21 Friday, April 17, 2009 1:56 PM
When you purchase a DVD of a movie do you get a full screen preview
Typically, I do through hidef commercials.
I truly do not understand what it is you people are defending. You guys act like this ammount of money is so insignificant that it does not matter if you like what you get or not. If indeed this argument had merit, WinCustomize would not collect such an 'insignificant' ammount of money. Also, if the amount is so insignificant, all people willing to purchase me some .dreams can contact me via AIM @ "da coo kid eric". Until something changes, unfortunately I will continue to limit my purchases to the person I am sure will produce top quality 1920x1200 dreams, TheMasterBaron.