Quote - I disagree. I think , unless Daz shoot themselves in the foot too often , Poser as such will price itself out of the hobby market .

When I started with Poser it was Poser 5 at $179 or Daz Studio free. At that time Daz Studio just didnt run well enough to consider , so I bought Poser 5. Today I would have taken Daz Studio and spent some money on content .

Poser content is sorting itself into two camps already. Some vendors supporting both . Originally it seemed the difference was textures . Now some of the stuff has two different obj files , each optimised for either Poser or Studio.   The subd stuff is going to make it worse.

If Daz release a decent cloth simulator and rigging toolset Poser wont be needed .

Just my thoughts ....

The problems that I see w/DAZ Studio are as follows:

1.  3rd Party products are required to do very much w/DAZ.  And after you purchase them all, you have spent more than a copy of Poser 7 & still have less functionality.

2.  In the past a new version of DAZ would break 3rd party products & then everyone gets to wait for those products to be fixed.  God forbid if the maker of a 3rd party product decides to do something else or gets hit by a bus.

3.  Just because something is supported by DAZ today, does not mean that it will be supported tomorrow.

DAZ knows better than you what you want.