"It was never meant to simply be a Poser format importer. Thats just a perk, like loading .obj is into a program like LW. The functionality will eventually begin to show that the two are a very different breed, both in what they do, and how."

I hope this isn't the official direction but I have sort of suspected that is how it is going to work out. Daz is betting that they own enough of the Poser community to force a "fork" (in software terms) and D|S is the method they have chosen. It was pretty clear this was the direction they would go in when they didn't fully support all the aspects of P5 that should have been most enticing to a content company.

This might work out, it might not. It might fracture the Poser community enough to fatally wound the market for both Poser and Daz. Hard to say.

I will say that this is a pretty late time in the game to change the "hook" line. D|S has been to some degree billed as a "better Poser than Poser" - and if it looks like that line is going to change into "well, it's LIKE Poser but you know, it doesn't actually share content" then things are gonna get funky.

At some point, Daz is going to release a major product that doesn't function well, or at all, in P5 and then they are going to force the users to choose between D|S and the new Vicki4 or whatever or P5 and whatever the market can come up with to replace Vickie 4.

This will be interesting.