I can go back in my Daz Studio Beta Archives to at least May 07, 2004. That's at least four years that Daz Studio has been in the works to date. And still no soild, unchanging, base engine under the hood. One never knows what the next version will Break or Fix.

I always enjoy the Daz Studio is Free. I agree, that is 100% true, the "Basic" Das Studio is Free.
What I do not like is the Ala Carte Marketing methods.
Sure there are plenty of people that really love the lean and mean "Basic" free Daz Studio.
But if you want to get into Daz's Versions (PlugIns) of Poser like Functions, you start paying and paying and paying for those PlugIns.
No doubt at all that Daz Studio will some day have Dynamics, Rigging, Hair, better animation etc etc etc. And you will once again pay and pay and pay for those PlugIns as well.

I happen to like the One Price Up Front method of marketing.
I am not waiting and hoping month after month as to when someone will create a new plugin that will do something similar to what I can already do in poser.
What really seems to be a problem of late is that, even after paying good money for those PlugIns you never know if the next version of DS will break them or not or how long you have to wait for an update.
I may be the only one who would pay for Daz Studio, but "IF" Daz was willing to offer a Retail version of DS with the PlugIns built in and "Stand BY IT" , I would buy it.

As far as the DS vs Poser, I really do not care which Program you like the best or why.
I have my own personnal choices as does everyone else in Poserdom.

A lot of people wrote the obituary or Poser when Smith Micro bought Poser.
Sorry, I haven't seen that happen. In fact SM has released Poser Pro 64 bit.

That's my 2 cents worth.

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