Quote - The Poser community, despite what many "Oldsters" remember it being when we first started here, is really a COMMERICAL community. DAZ is THE Big Puba of it all. It is a company and companies need to make money and they do it well creating and selling NEW CONTENT. For as long as there is a market for the stuff it will be availed us. When the demand goes down it will be phased out....like anything out in the open market.

The Poser community is in itself a ravenous community which is hell bent on the "Feeding Frenzy" for the Newest and Greatest that is available....irregardless of the cost. It seesm sometimes especially on some sites, that there is a competition of who can get the newest and greates offerings in their render and posted first. Sheesh!  :(

If you are on a Windows machine you are at a real advantage because there are applications made for you that will allow you to convert some of these items to work with other figures. I am not so fortunate being on a Mac.

I can tell you it COSTS a lot to constantly munch on something new DAZ and others spoon out to us. After years of dishing out cash for all this STUFF I can no longer do it. I have so much stuff for Poser both purchased and freebies, I will never be able to use it all in whatever is left of my stupid Poser addicted life!
It seems if you are happy with whatever you got...just keep using it. If you like stuff that is still available out there for V3...GET IT NOW...before the vendors faze it out by removing it from the stores.

It is too bad they do that. Despite the GRANDE investment made on all the DAZ conclavve of products up to Mike4 (which I will not spend money on and that is final!) I am still using V2. Got a lot of stuff for her and there were some brilliant clothing items available back when she was "The Premiere" Ticket item I wish I had gotten then.
Now they are no longer available. You would think the vendors would archive that stuff and make it available for dumb sods like me who remembering it wants to get and sell it to us at a fair "Close out" discount bargain bin price. That'll never happen.
I found many V2 items still available at RuntimeDNA..Thanks for that guys!
But anything here at Renderosity or DAZ is Gone the way of the Dodo Bird...of which I am strongly relating to!  LOL

I hear you on that. I don't understand why more vendors don't make some older content available to those who want it; the cost of doing so I would think would be minor. I view the "old" figures as being other options, not something that needs to be replaced. Just because V2 or V3 are "old" does not mean they need to be replaced.