"And then...? don't leave us in suspense?"

I hit up Mel Gibson to fund the sequel. He was OK with the rampant nudity & perverted sex scenes, but said that the violence repelled him.

To answer the question, when I can afford the hardware, yes but I'll continue using Poser & other applications as always.

  Putting on my tinfoil hat, I asked myself if Daz was really moronic enough to piss off a good part of their customer base - in this economy - just flaunt Genesis?  Did they really not anticipate SM saying no thanks, leading them to scramble to do a climb down? Barring criminal incompetence, I think they had the exporter in mind as Plan B. The cynical might say it was ready all along - maybe out in perfected form just in time for Christmas? Maybe the street people are more fearful (of losing their fav content) as opposed to angry. Daz sez, we tried to get SM to play, they rejected us and now, we bust our humps to make sure you can have Vickie in your stocking. Who comes off as the good guys here? They get a taste of DS4 perforce and find it doesn't kill them.

Next time around, maybe there are hints that V6 will be the last go round, the fear kicks in. DS5 will be free and for many of them, that may be all the need. Poser 10 will cost. Maybe some will think about switching. Perhaps my faith in Daz' strategic intelligence is misplaced, my suspicions of their cunning an illusion. As they say, bankruptcy is to capitalism what hell is to Christianity. I just think that the game being played is chess, not Old Maid. </admittedly insane fantasy>

I may be misunderstanding the technology here, but my impression is that the exporter solution will only work for Poser9/2012? If so, that means that anyone who doesn't have the latest version and wants to use V5 will have to use DS4. How many people is that? How many die hard Vickie fans would at least give it a try if she were available for a limited time at a very nice price - given the amount of crap people buy and never use anyway?

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken