:: sigh ::

Well, FWIW, it looks like we're caught in that classic DAZ situation. They put something up, and it's up to the community to make something of it. How many times have we seen that, guys? Seriously, I've never found the DAZ original versions, when it comes to facial morphs or body borphs, to be all that worthhwile (with the exception of H3 and M4, who have their own distinct issues). Then someone will tear it apart and do what DAZ should have done before release, rather than giving us... well, to be blunt, the skanky looking variants on V4 and now the Children of the Corn.

And I find it bewildering that we're willing to invest that kind of time and energy into this one company when we have all these other models at our disposal, all very free, long before DAZ jumped on the "BASE FIGURES FOR FREE!" bandwagon. We'll ignore them, but we'll lavish attention on the horror story that is the basic Aiko4 (and let's be frank: she is a horror -- that's not a matter of taste; she just is, period).

And we've doing this for years, with it being very unlikely to stop.

I mean, really, why is this? Do the users really consider Barbie Showgirl "pretty" out of the box? Or are we just so used to "business as usual" that it's impossible to think otherwise? Do you just shrug your collective shoulders and say, "Well, okay, not much to look at, but someone will come along and fix it!" with all the optimism of Pippi Longstocking? Laurie mentioned earlier that, should DAZ minimize its Poser support, someone else might step in and fill the gap... but honestly, would there be any point? The community has blindly supported DAZ for years, despite all the headaches, the gross release errors, and the (to me anyway) mounting evidence that they need to give this stuff away to keep their market share. They are more and more dependent on their outside content providers to keep the money coming in, rather than generating content of worth themselves.

What's going on? Can anyone explain this? I just dont understand the business model at work here.

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