It would be hard for me, given the wording of the original post, not to think it was a trolling thread, espescially in the context of being posted on the Daz boards. :) If you really just wanted an honest pros and cons, to see if you were missing anything, that was probably not the most courteous or productive way to do so!

As far as Daz, D|S and Poser, I'll only have a problem with Daz if they start to "gimp" content with a lot of new features only supported by D|S.

I really wish they would get over what ever problems they had in the past and find a way to have a better relationship with E Frontier. The Daz figures are still pretty much the standard in the community, it would be better for everyone if the two companies could innovate together for the benefit of both (and of course the rest of us)!

D|S made sense for Daz as an insurance policy when the future of Poser was in doubt. It still makes sense in that regard and of course as a lower cost alternative to Poser for those who want to get their feet wet with Daz content. I had hoped D|S might also have been leveraged as a more robust cross application platform, to allow better use of Poser content in higher end 3D packages, but that seems to have fallen far short of it's potential. However, to try to move it towards being a direct competitor or replacement to Poser, using compatability with it's content as a differentiation point, is something I do NOT want to see down the road.

Looking at E frontier, the attempt to establish it's own default figures as the community standard has also been largely a failure. Options are nice, but (no offense to RDNA) I just don't find the new figures to be up to par.

It seems like a lot of wasted effort on both sides. Competition is nice when it breeds innovation, but I don't feel we've seen any real innovation from either company.