"The masses dont give a rats patooie about weight Mapping & SSS they just want the latest Vickie"

"This and similar threads have proven him to be correct"

This statement does not rise to my qualifications of wisdom, and represents the conventional (condescending) thinking that is based on an outdate status quo. Things change. DAZ3D has fundamentally changed the relationship it had with its Poser users. That is what this and similar threads have proven to be correct. This is what all the dramatics is about.

Instead of making a figure that worked almost as well in all versions of Poser (that could use Poser 4 content) as in D/S, they issued Genesis (a slender gray alien, not a Vickie doll), which would not work in any version of Poser at all. They then put a lot of stuff in the store for Genesis, and made it use most of the V4/M4 legacy content, but only in D/S 4.X (which even freezes out those D/S users who cannot update to version 4.X). This was the situation for a month or more.

The masses of people in this corner of the CG universe are still largely if not mostly Poser users, and most of them use some version of Poser prior to P9/PP2012 (probably prior to Poser 8). They already know they can't use Genesis because they do not want to use D/S, and they will not or cannot get P9/PP2012. A lot of the Poser users have already walked away before "V5" even came out.

The latest "Vickie" is already as inaccessible to all of these consumers as weight-mapping and SSS. If they were going to use D/S they would have adopted one of its free versions a long time ago. They didn't.

The relatively smaller portion of the community of people that used DAZ content may be dividing between those who use D/S and those who use Poser, but the big split in the community of people that used DAZ content is between people who only use content that is compliant with the Poser 4 standard (the legacy users), and those who can use content that will not work in earlier versions of D/S and Poser. Poser 4 compliance is the lowest common denominator of compatibility. Fascinating.

Therefore, things have changed. So, what the masses actually want is that the latest version of Vickie will work in their version of Poser and it can't. Those who use Poser might consider upgrading to a new version of Poser (probably not) to use Genesis/v5 if it functioned well in Poser. But, they will not exchange Poser for D/S just to get a fully functional V5. Neither will I. I am already sufficiently estranged to explore and invest in other options.

lmk

Probably edited for spelling, grammer, punctuation, or typos.