Maclean has a good point about not thinking in terms that are too Posercentric. There's no telling what Daz's long term plans are. I imagine having the figure so recognizable is one of the main reasons the "big boys" steer away from Poser. It looks like Daz (with V3/M3) is doing a lot of thinking about getting a wider variety of looks from a single base mesh, so perhaps that will become less of a factor in time. I don't know about the 10-20 year timeframe. I wouldn't bet on even Microsoft being around in 20 years, at least not in it's present form, though I wouldn't be entirely surprised if a doddering Sadam Hussein were president of Iraq in 2023 :-)

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