Who needs a new dragon anyway? Did a quick count in my runtimes and I've counted over 10 dragons. Honestly, all they release at DAZ lately is stuff we all have tons of already. Dragons.... dinosaurs, dresses, temples, man, I've got loads of those, how much does DAZ think i need of those? is any store releasing anything new, innovative and interesting these days? All I see is the same stuff over and over again.

*It's not at all unreasonable, and in fact it makes that item much more interesting if one wants to export to a foreign app for rendering; Poser's approach to polygon smoothing requires funky modeling habits when working with low-polygon items, as this dragon appears to be, and while this particular version may not work too well with Poser, there are other versions of the dragon work fine with it - while this new one should work substantially better in Cararra, Cinema, or any big dog renderer that you might export to (lower polygon count).

*That's the whole point. You may have noticed that DAZ wants to tap into a new market, the game design market. To do so, they need to move away from the old high poly stuff and come down to the level the game designer is at. SubD is a move into that direction and I'm sure we will see more of those kind of models released. They're not geared at the poser community at all, they're setting the stage to move to a new market. Once DAZ tapped into that market succesfully, they don't need poser users anymore to sustain their business. At that time D/S users and game designers will provide enough income for DAZ to finally break with Poser.
 
The only bad side of the coin for poser users is that once DAZ accomplishes this and completely drops Poser support (which is just a matter of time), Poser will go into oblivion and the final curtain for poser will fall. Poser's main right of exsistance, how crude it may be, is DAZ figures being compatible with Poser. Once DAZ pulls the plug, it's lights out for Poser. The G2 figures (or any other non-DAZ figures) do not have a large enough customer base to support the survival of Poser.

Personally, I don't really care. I don't use G2 figures, I dislike Appolo, have nothing with V4/A4 and could care less about the coming release of M4 or any other DAZ figure. I'm still using the good old whole P4 - G1 range figures when needed. I'm still a fervent M1/V1-M3/V3 user. I've got David, Hiro, Stephanie, Aiko3, the Freak, Behomoth and more of these figures in my runtimes. I've got gigabyte after gigabyte of clothes, hair, shoes, textures and so on for them to keep me happy for years to come.

Which ever move anyone in the poser community makes is fine with me, I'm not following it, i'm not buying more stuff for figures.

The only thing which still interests me is new landscaping items for Poser, some interior and exterior items and a vehicle once in a while. That's where my money goes, but only if it's something new something innovative, like Cyllan's Terraformers - Altitudes, that's innovative stuff, something new. If only people would release more of this kind of interesting, innovative stuff, instead of the same old, I've seen it all before.

So, please DAZ go ahead, pull the plug and perhaps we will see a great new move because of the lurking thread and poser will once again gain my attention.

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Food for thought.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZw0dfLmLk