CL was never in the figures business they were in the application business at first the creator of Poser was trying to make a program to do simple pose for art references and since they were the only game in town with a reasonable price and the ability to do more then simple posing it mushroomed and Zygote made the figures for P3+ after the community grew immensely the Poser division of Zygote broke off to form DAZ who realized potential and the rest is history I believe the advent of Daz Studio was a cover your behind tactic after there was a lot of (unfounded)grumbling of a CL collapse so that is only smart business to create an alternative to all the content they are providing. my $0.02

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