They should concentrate on what they do best (content) and stop biting off more than they can chew. (apps) Bryce has been a major disapointment to me. I passed on ver 5.5 - Not enough reasons to upgrade.

You can't really blame them. At the time they started the D|S project, no one knew if Poser would even survive. That's all changed, now that that they've been bought out by E-frontier, but DAZ had no way of knowing that would happen.

I can understand why they did what they did. Grow or die, buy or be bought. I have nothing against long development, but I do wonder if a small company can afford it. Microsoft taking two years longer than expected to release a product is no big deal, but for a small company, that's a long time to have no income coming in, when you were expecting you would.

With D|S, it's not so bad. It is helping them sell content to people who can't afford Poser, so it's bringing in some money. But you're right about Bryce. I have a feeling DAZ lost their shirt on that one. They must have paid a lot of money for it. They had that goofy "buy a vaporware upgrade now, months ahead of time, or no upgrade pricing" scheme, which they admitted was because they had to recoup some of the money they had paid out for Bryce. Bryce 5.5 was promised before the end of 2004, but didn't make the deadline. When it finally was released, it wasn't that much different from 5. I think 5.5 should have been a free upgrade, given the small improvements, but DAZ probably couldn't afford that. I don't think they have the resources to keep up with both E-on and E-frontier, which is what they are trying to do with Bryce and D|S.