Hey guys, this is the line you should be focussing on: "... on the abilities of D|S with its eventual native content." - MallenLane. It's entirely commonsense (business-sense) for Daz to go in this direction. And have you looked at a .daz file? Nothing to see! Think about what will happen when Daz starts shipping products in .daz format... Yeah, they'll keep .cr2 around in parallel, but their brokers will have to follow suit. And then what happens to 3rd party add-on products at other brokers? A fractioning of the community is (unfortunately) a question of when, not if. Someone can - and probably will - write a tool that will take internal props and spit out external objects so they can load in Studio and Poser. But a native .daz format figure is destined to stay Studio only (a HUGE benefit to Daz). And have you seen Rob W's Xmas day statement on Daz Forums that Studio will not support injection as we know it? It'll be dynamic morph loading in a future release. Let's hope that it's entirely backward compatible with Daz series 3 figures (i.e. that V3.cr2 will load in Studio exhibiting extactly the same feature set as a V3.daz will). I'd like to hope it would be, but it's more likely that it won't be long term, even if it is on first release. IMHO Daz see Studio as a Poser replacement as they have said all along, but NOT in the way that Poser users seem to interprete that statement. I believe their goal is to replace Poser in the marketplace, which means a very different approach - perhaps even an othogonal one - to the replacement of the Poser application for the average Poser afficianardo.