save your apartment designs?

[Zyegs]

(02-07-2018, 09:36 PM)Avril 2018 Wrote:

(02-07-2018, 02:48 PM)Zyegs Wrote: Some designers have used watermarks. From my point of view it doesn't solve anything, maybe you can prove to another person that the design is yours but that won't stop it from reselling or using without your permission (I don't think most people care about where the design comes from). Besides, the money that you could have earned with its sale has been lost.

I would like a custom designed apartment.   Two reasons I don’t have one:  one is cost but the second is that I don’t really know what I want.   But if I did commission a design I would not want the designer reselling it;  it is then no longer the exclusive design I paid for.

Watermarks are ok for showcasing your design but they have to be removed in a version that is sold.

But do designers consider this?   I buy a design for $100k and sell 4 copies for $20k each.   Each of us has thus paid $20k.   But they would not have paid $100k and nor would I if I could not sell on so designer has $100k that they would not have done otherwise.

In the beginning I made exclusive designs, but after seeing that those designs didn't end up being so exclusive, I decided to start selling them to more than one person.

The problem is that the people you sell it to can sell it to other people and so on. In the end the designer is the one who makes less money of all.

Basically I think the problem is that most players don't appreciate the effort and the work behind the designs (at least in my case, I can't speak for others). If they were honest enough not to resell the designs or give them without permission this wouldn't happen.