I recall being laughed at when noticing a couple of years back (when still very active around here) that one day DAZ would start making figures that wouldn't work in Poser (as is), but only really work well in DS.

Now I'm hoping for all of you that all the merchants out there who create clothes for Poser & DS will not jump ship as well and drop support of Poser in favour of  DS. DS only items are popping up more and more and if DAZ succeeds in loosening themselves completely from Poser, I wonder if the Poser community has enough commited merchants to keep the boat afloat. Make no mistake..... DAZ once used to need Poser users, it won't be long before they don't need them anymore. DAZ has won over enough people and is reaching enough new people to expand their business. On the contrary even while we have new versions of Poser, Smith Micro doesn't seem to expand in the rate DS does with DAZ. Poser sales depend heavily upon DAZ content and I seriously doubt Poser can stand on it's own. If DAZ finally pulls the plug and Smith Micro continues in their set ways, what will be left of Poser?

 

That's not the case yet, but things are shifting more and more. If we like it or not, DAZ is more and more forcing people to make a choice, I don't blame them, it was obvious when they started developing DS that they wanted to be completely independant. To be honest who wants to buy V5 anyway? All we do is getting new figures, buying the same clothes we've had for years once again and then rendering the same images we've been rendering before. This market is so saturated with content, that a new figure doesn't bring anything new at all, just the same old content in a new jacket. Just look at our runtimes...... most of us haven't even used at least half of the stuff that's in it. We're storing up content and by the time we get around to use it, the next figure has been released and we start all over again.

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Due to the childish TOS changes, I'm not allowed to link to my other products outside of Rendo anymore :(

Food for thought.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZw0dfLmLk