With the recent change in octane licencing it's become more affordable, therefore more users are going to consider it as an option to iray. The problem I find is when you load a genesis character the default conversion is not that impressive. Even when you remove the filters for the eyes on the main page, the eyes still seam pretty dead compered to iray or redspec. So someone trying octane out for the first time, will be impressed with the speed, but turned off with the quality. I've attached 3 version of the same render using the same HDRI file. The first is iray, seconds is default octane linear response gamma 2.2 and 3rd is RedSpec also linear. We've got to get closer to what iray can do with skin otherwise even for free octane won't be worth it, and i think with this new octane pricing it's a great opportunity to build the octane / daz user base. Redspec is very good but that red tint it applies to all files kind of kills it for me.
Iray
Octane Default linear gamma 2.2
Octane RedSpec linear gamma 2.2