Quote - "If I add to the equation a program like Blender or Wings3D we also have:

Decimator for DAZ Studio (100$)
Reality (80$)
mgHeightfield Primitives for DS3 (15$) and
FBX Plug-in for DAZ Studio (100$)
for a total of 295$.
Our "free" as beer program now costs 385$. Poser 8 without sales is 250$ so, we are left with 135$. If we add 64 additional dollars, we can also add Vue 9 Esprit (again not sale) to the bundle.
Still thinking that Studio is so great?"

Hi no offense but I read  such
"true cost of DS" ,break downs Like this all the time in these DS vs poser discussions
and yours is just as arbitrary and self serving as all of the others I have read.

BTW You "forgot " to Add $2500-$3000 for a copy of Autodesk MAX ,Maya or Maxon C4D to receive FBX exports from Daz studio.
You assume (Falsely) that the average Daz user literallyNEEDS
all the additional Items you listed to produce a viable Still render.
well one visit to the DAZ galleries clearly proves that they do not.
Most  DS users  are more than happy with the free version
plus maybe the reality plugin ($80 USD) for the "well heeled"
and the cost of Content is  not relevant to the discussion
because both DS& poser users will need to buy additional Content after all the galleries here are not exactly flooded with renders of
"Alyson"& "Ryan" are they?? .

Cheers

Big deal. There's not a whole lot of renders of Stephanie 3 here either. What's your point Wolf? Because frankly, there's a whole lot of freebies out there where DAZ wouldn't make a cent off of.