The real issue with DAZ is how they're trying to become a driving force in this medium...this is quite different than becoming a monopoly.Vicky,Mike and Stephanie are indicators of this as so much in this industry is aimed at these character meshes...thus,DAZ is a driving force here because most people depend upon them simply to get started even if others may produce products for these characters.Time and again they have tried to force products onto the market just for sheer greed...we did not need a new Stephanie character for instance,every item made for her could just as easily have been made for V3 and morphs could even given us many of the characters and such now associated with this mesh.

The DAZ Platinum Club does offer great deals if you want some items in the club at a discount,but when I joined not one new product went into the club while I was a member and even after I left,very few new additions were made that I had any interest in at all...so why remain a member or rejoin if not for the freebies and such they have to overwhelm people with to get them to rejoin even for a month.To me it looks like a losing venture to give away over $500.00 worth of freebies to get someone to join for one month...they do stuff like that all the time because in truth,its been a bad proposition for them from day one.

DAZ render to me could be the one product that brings DAZ down,they have put so much into this product and they're desire to move away from poser is also driving this products development...unfortunately,no one likes the product that have tried it and the only praise they've really had are for the ideas behind it rather than what they'll actually be able to achieve with it.I don't know how many of you bought Sega's Dreamcast console gameplayer but there's a direct comparison here as Sega in the US is a software company who time and again tried to enter the hardware side of their biz with one failed gameplayer after another...in the end all Sega ever did was push their competition to put out even better hardware and because these companys were heavily invested in hardware as well,Sega kept falling behind.

So,now DAZ has Bryce...the only possible thing they can gain by purchasing Bryce is its software render technology as the product had already lost support from its manufacturer and other products now far outdo it in regards to performance.There really is nothing DAZ can do to improve Bryce as they aren't in this type of software development business...but even a lowly hack can strip Bryce of its components and integrate them into DAZ render once they have the exclusive rights to the product.If DAZ could truly compete in this field they would have already done it by now...I mean,look at all the animosity they have towards poser and yet virtually everything they produce is dependent on the product they hate most.There may be better products than Poser on the market...but DAZ render will never be that product and Bryce may now be officially a dead product if DAZ intends only to strip it of its software for DAZ render.

And let us not forget...Curious Labs has been talking about Poser 6 and there is always the possibility that all DAZ render will actually accomplish is to tell Curious Labs what they need to do to put out a superior product-and then like the Dreamcast,everyone who buys DAZ render or Bryce will be stuck with products that will lose all commercial support.DAZ cannot simply convert everything to DAZ render and away from Poser...poser is the driving force here,not DAZ and their resentment of that will only drive them into the ruin if they don't abandon this foolishness.

These are only my opinions...but well thought out by looking at other businesses that have tried to do what DAZ is doing and how most only meet with disaster.

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