Quote - Cheers: I have to take some exception to what you say [politely of course].

*"Agreed - D/S is in competition with Poser, but I'll go back to my original comment that DAZ also realise they can't survive without Poser users...cash is king and the only time when DAZ will make D/S only specific models is when Poser users will see that D/S is a better application."

*Your member info states you've been around here a long time so I really don't understand how you can't remember when P5 came out that DAZ wanted nothing to do with it, period!!
They said so on their own site more than once and only back tracked when they realized that it was starting to cost them in lost sales, IMO the mentality still exists there!!

Polite exception, excepted ;-)

I vaguely remember, but Poser isn't my prime application and I moved from version 3 to 4 then onto 6 and probably won't upgrade to 7 as for what I use Poser for, any of the extra features aren't a great seller for me.
Actually, I think your quote directly confirms what I was saying.

Good for DAZ if there ambition is to move away from Poser, because direct competition usually benefits the consumer...but, I think they have some pretty wise heads on their shoulders and I think they realise that before they can do that totally, they have to produce a D/S the majority of Poser users want to use...and if or when that time comes we consumers won't care anyway because we will prefer to use D/S.

There is one other thing to add to this...people such as Vue or C4D users who use Poser basically as a figure library. You may be surprised how much of DAZ custom is from them users. Where Vue is concerned Carrara and Bryce are DAZ owned competition. Ok, Carrrara is probably just different enough to not be considered direct competition and Bryce is far too underdeveloped and ageing from previous miss-management...but it is all complex competition that DAZ have to consider when they think of their customer base.

 

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