Quote - Yeah and I can get a Wii or a xbox360 FREE too! just have to sign up to some sites etc.

No, you cannot. You're referring to a modified MLM program which is a scam.

Quote - If you don't own V4.2 and get the "Free" A4 base then ya have to go get V4.2 somehow.

Sure - you fill out some fields (and no one said you had to do it honestly), and you're all set. And the problem is ...?

Quote - I bought V4.0 pro pack when it 1st arrived, no freebies no nothing, lots of cash.  I used the return policy and returned the use of the v4.0 model cause it was garbage to me.

I do find it interesting that you go out of your way to badmouth a company that even allows returns on digital items in the first place. iTunes doesn't even do that.

Quote - I use A3 the standalone figure. now with A4 that is not possible any longer WITHOUT getting another product in my runtime as A4 is a morph package FOR V4.2.

Meh - disk space is cheap and plentiful. No biggie on that count. I still have and use A3 just fine. I make stuff for it as well (which gets sold at R'otica), and I don't foresee not making stuff for A3 for a very long time.

'course, folks still make stuff for V3, and how long has that one been superseded?

Quote - Look daz hated that A3 took over their figure sales simple, and they wanted V4 to be the bread winner for them, so they made A4 a morph and required V4.2.

Err, how d'ya figure? V4 sells quite nicely on its own (I've done some hella powerful sales w/ V4-only stuff, so I have some solid first-hand knowledge of this). It runs neck-and-neck with the A3 stuff, sales-wise.

Quote - Daz3d wants to be taken "Seriously" in the industry and a toon caracter doesn't do that for them.

Dunno about that - they are taken seriously in the CG industry. Usually folks that will put down Poser full-bore, always set aside some praise for the DAZ meshes. Judging by the folks I got to interact with in my short tenure there, I can say with absolute (albeit anecdotal) authority that DAZ is taken very seriously by the CG industry at large.

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