Well,

The problem that brycers (us!) got is that Daz makes money out of content for DazStudio. Having taken over Carrara doesnt help us either. Im sure its a great application but it still competes with Bryce.

If i were Daz i would streamline Bryce a bit more. Get rid of animation and/or modelling and concentrate more on rendering option and optimizations.  I would happily pay $200 for Bryce if it had some render upgrades and more format import options added.

Promotions is also an issue. They do an excellent job with studio but when V6 came out it was all about the "fantasy enviroments" and a lot of landscapes examples.  As i was saying on a thread at 3dc, Every year theres a competition or two out there for Bryce which included 20+ categories.

Just reading the description on 3d world magazine issue 102 quick reference keyboard guide says it all....

Bryce: ...affordable software for creating realistic landscape imagery
Carrara: ... Daz 3d figure posing, modelling, landscape design, physics , animation and rendering apllication.

Thats just a joke. How many oustanding abstracts are done in bryce actually use a terrain? or have you seen a nice looking big chested girl render on a mountain? no.

Why does Daz not promote such other excellent uses of the program as opposed to say to people "look how you can render a pretty mountain" ? 

I guess there is a reason why you can go to Daz from within Bryce but you cant go to Bryce from within Daz!

Thank Flak for the passing it on. I thin we should form the "Council of Bryce Elders" and tell Daz excactly how to promote Bryce.

A lot of members do a hell of a lot to promote Bryce as everything other than a landscape program but Daz never says thank you cause you havent rendered an Aiko or Victoria....

Alex,