Here is the bottom line in my opinion. You are all looking at Gen and V5. You need to think 3 to 5 years out. Up until now Poser could use the latest greatest and most popular characters V3-V4.Now it can't (yet) with Gen Characters and probably will be lacking feature sets that limit it's use in Poser. I liken it to clinging to Beta Max or cassette tapes etc. It is easy to say for a lot of reasons who cares about V5. But think 2-3-5 years from now when V6-V7 is released. Poser will make advancements in Poser 10 and Poser Pro 201x, etc. But if there is no popular content being created that works in the Poser eco-sysytem or the fact that a newbie has to jump thru hoops to make the Daz Characters work or has to buy-get-install a competing software package that is the bigger issue at hand that SM must consider. I got this really great software package and no leading-popular content to use easily in it is not the business model that looks enticing long term to me.

Gary

"Those who lose themselves in a passion lose less than those who lose their passion"