Quote - Don't get me wrong. I love Poser. I have been using it for several years. I prefer it over Studio, which I have looked at  and just can't get on with, I agree with pagan artist, there just seems to be something missing from studio.

I am not knocking Poser users either, hell I am one and I also use the application for hobbyist purposes, etc. But you need to be aware of the Market in which the app sits. As to features well, Okay, some people maybe happy with Posers current feature set, infact I am one of those that is, well almost, once I get 64bit rendering etc, ala Poser Pro.

But how sustainable is a product that on average costs, what, $150.00??, thats only seventy five lovely english pounds. I can spend that on one evening out in the uk, its peanuts, and for that money you get an amazing application with some incredible features versus the cost of the software. But what encourages people to upgrade?? features do, what encourages people to buy, features do. Bug fixes and fixing current features so that they work are only of interest to the people that already have the software.

How many users have stayed at Poser 5 or 6, because they felt that what poser 7 had to offer was not worth the upgrade price. That is fatal to an application of this type. Every release of poser should leave a user really wanting the upgrade. How else is the software going to evolve.??

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The only reason I suspect that Daz can continue to develop  Studio is because it is heavily subsidised by their content sales and it has many plugin providers via its easily available SDK. The app itself is not self sustainable. That is not nessecarily a good business model. Your base app is in effect a loss leader that will hopefully encourage the purchaser to buy content for that app, again hopefully from yourselves. But how many Poser users actually purchase from content paradise?? certainly not as many who purchase from here or at Daz etc. 

The G2 figures are virtually extinct, how many products have you seen for them outside of Content Paradise and runtimedna.??

This is what I meant by poser moving forward it will not be long that 32-bit apps will pass away. I for one that has a mutlti-core, 64-bit processor needs to move on into the 64-bit world. What is the use of advancements if the programs and apps don't move along with them? I would very much like to see a 64-bit poser, as expected from the launch of poser pro sometime this year, to use on my machine and have better performance.

I haven't read up much on studio but for now it doesn't support multi core processors or am I incorrect on this? I don't know much about C6 either however, looking a Daz and being a customers of theirs for many years I do not think they will stand by and not bring their apps into  the 64-bit world. It is a fact that high end, money making products get the most support over the lesser valued items.

But, this doesn't mean that just because SM does't have a 3D app background they will just let poser sink. As I made mention before that Chrysler was purchased by a group that never had auto manufacturing in its history. The recent strike of Chrysler employess and the way the company responded to the strike meant to me they mean business. If they had bought the company with the intention to milk it and flip it they would have never met the demands of their striking employees. Maybe the same can be said of SM and poser?

Many of you remember when Curious Labs sold poser to EF did not the same "sky is falling" prophecies fill the forums then? I read many accounts on this forum then of EF junking poser, letting it die, no updates, no new versions basically EF was going to pull the Corel treatment.
I know we live in an instand gratification world but somethings you just to have to wait and see the outcome.

As for me I will continue to use poser even if it no longer exists or is supported by anyone until something else in the same catagory as poser comes along or big leaps are taken by D/S. However, my philosophy has always been prepare for the worst and if the worst doesn't come your doing alright and I don't see anything wrong in that either.

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