Can you elaborate on “Mister calculator”? I see how the new licensing is beneficial in regards to PA (as those were licensed for 3D use in a really impractical manner before the changes, with some PAs asking even for $2000 per single title license etc.) and it is therefore especially positive for owners of the previously available Game Dev Licenses, who want to include non-DazOriginal content, but I don’t see any real positive outside of that consideration.
If you aimed at paying $140-200 for the Indie license (on sale), you will now pay almost that just for the essentials, leaving you with the necessity of paying more than before for everything you might want to use additionally (any hair, clothing, expressions, morphs) all of which would already have been covered at that point in the same price range in the previous model. Even if you take the listing price of $500 - that’s just a mere handful of items in the current pricing until you have exceeded even that.