I agree that DAZ has a market, and you are part of their demographic. Don't get me wrong, I like Carrara and Hexagon a lot. But why has it been two years. Two full years with very little development if any with Hexagon?, and why is modo moving so fast as far as development? At some point you need to factor in revenue streams and development cycles. If Hexagon was making money for DAZ like modo is doing for Luxology, you bet that it would be in their best interest to aggressively develop it. Sure selling Hexagon for $2.00 dollars seems like a good deal at the time, and it probably is, for you, but not for DAZ or Hexagons future, because  development cost money, and that money needs to come from somewhere. That is my point.  

I know that DAZ has it's market demographic and it's good that they make great software available to users at an accessible price point, but $2.00 was a mistake, because you depreciate the perceived value of the package, and you can't conceivably fund future development with such small margins, regardless of volume. If Hexagon has not been updated, it's because of lack of resources.

 

If you are using Hexagon on Windows, you would not fully perceive how atrocious and bug ridden Hexagon is under Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard. Yet Carrara runs O.K. I do think that DAZ will one of these day renew development with Hexagon, but as a professional, I could no longer wait and I moved over to modo.

 

Since I have modo, I now realize I don't need Carrara as much ether, since it has a magnificent rendering engine. modo is not perfect, it crashes at times with complex setups and it has it's share of bugs also. But their is no caparison productivity wise with Hexagon and modo. When you have a deadline, the last thing you need is problems in your pipeline.