>> "SeanMartin, that would assume that DAZ primary interest is in selling the software - it looks clear to me that their main revenue stream is from content."

For the moment. DAZ has always wanted to make the leap into the Big Time with Maya and StudioMax and disassociate itself from the hobbyist market that is Poser. The content sales underwrote the software development, but I've noticed we've not seen a major plug in for Studio since Animator (or whatever it's called). I dont know quite what might mean business-wise, but there you are anyway. But they have engineered almost everything to go through Studio, even requiring its installation with other programs, regardless of whether or not the user wanted it or it was even necessary for that outside program to run -- I asked for two years why it was necessary to install DS when I went to Bryce 6, and I never got a straight answer. That to me suggests they were pushing hard, anyway they could, for Studio support.

Maybe it didnt pan out like they hoped. Maybe the plug ins werent the sellers they hoped they would be. Or maybe they've decided not to pursue the goal of being the next Big Three D thing. Who knows what's going on at Draper these days.

As I said at the beginning, I no longer care what they do. I buy the occasional prop from AntFarm, and that's about it.

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