Quote - I don't think SM is the only one to blame. DAZ has a part in it also. More and more people get tired of DAZ's aggressive sales tactics. People had enough of the back to back sales. There are more and more complains at DAZ's sites about the sales. I've stopped purchasing at DAZ completely, I'm getting sick of their sales and their constantly untrue sales slogans started to bother me lately. I do think I've developed a DAZ sales phobia and I know I'm not the only one. I got really tired of their various newsletters screaming at me and the constant begging for me to purchase more and more of the same old stuff I've been purchasing for years.
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Nope, SM isn't the only culprit of course, but they certainly aren't helping matters much.  But if the market sucked when the program cost $150, can't for the life of me figure out how putting a couple of minor extra features into the program and charging $500 for it is supposed to help the market.. lol..

As long as you got somebody selling stuff for $5 that is, at least on the very surface, somewhat like the same thing someone else is selling for $20 your going to have a problem.  Sure, the $20 item is usually a lot higher quality and has a lot more options, but not everybody is that partiuclar about there purchasing decisions.  They see $5 vrs $20 and figure the $5 item will do good enough, no need to really even look that close at the $20 one.

It's not fair, it's not right, but it is what it is as my grandpappy used to say.  As to Daz, I haven't bought anything from them in so long I can't even remember what the last thing I bought from them was - I think probably V3 - prior to that you'd have to go a lot further back.

When I first got into Poser I got a couple of daz items, way way back when - and honestly the quality was nothing to write home about.  Some of the stuff I've seen over there lately looks a lot better, but I guess I never really did get over the basic, gut reaction that with Daz it's caveat emptor to the max. 

I've seen some nice stuff over at RDNA, but in truth never purchased anything from them - most of what I do with poser is creation and rigging so for me most store bought items don't really have much of an attraction.  I do most of my own modeling and what I don't have time for I can usually find a free mesh that with some minor alterations and bit of extra rigging gets the job done just fine.

-Never fear, RenderDog is near!  Oh wait, is that a chew toy?  Yup. ok, nevermind.. go back to fearing...