>>60602043They don't really have any choice if they want to survive as a business. When NijiHolo started they basically had a monopoly on vtuber tech. They lost that. Indies can get the same artists and L2D riggers, and even get them to do a better job since they don't have corporate deadlines. They still have impressive 3D, but they're rapidly losing ground there too. Traditional 3D is getting to be affordable to bigger streamers. Project Melody and Zentreya each have their own 3D studios at their houses that are on par with what NijiHolo offered a few years ago. Motion tracking 3D is also starting to get really cheap. Suits like what CodeMiko and Kson have are still expensive but affordable to a lot of larger vtubers. Mocopi is affordable to everyone, and while it is really jank still, it's only going to get better and more accurate in time as they release new versions. There will eventually be a time when random ass chuubas with like a thousand bucks can have 3D tech that is nearly indistinguishable from what the million dollar studios can provide on a technical level.
So what do these big companies have to offer? Networking, basically. People join those groups to do collaborations and events with their existing big name talents. They have to maintain that monopoly because it's all they have now. And they know that, you can observe it with how insular both companies have gotten over time.
