Quote - I seriously doubt that a solution which involves constant usage of a another 3rd party program will succeed with Poser users as its main figure. DAZ has to do better than that to succeed with Poser users.

 

Perhaps they're not focusing on Poser users, and are slowly working to let the Poser users do whatever they will. There is after all a far larger world out there.

 

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Quote -  I know that those caught up in the exhilirating air of rebellion don't want to hear that war is hell and people may not flock to the black flag, but it is and they may not. If SM decides to sit back, waiting to fly in like Khomeni and reap the benefits of other people's struggle, then good luck with that.

This, right here.

 

Solid point... I'd only add that "war" also requires work. Lots of work.

If you want to capture hearts and minds, you're going to need something that those hearts and minds can actually use to their own ends.

I don't care if you cough up a model that has a talking visemes/phonems capable vagina, and fully articulated breasts... if the mesh is hard to morph from its original shape, the character merchies by and large won't touch it. If they won't touch it, then sales won't get very far, so the clothing merchies won't really bother. If that happens, then sales will crater, and development remains with a small hard-core team. After that, that's pretty much it, until it fades into the same forgotten Runtime bin as Neftoon Gal, Koshini, Natalia, Alexa, Dina, Jessie, and dozens of other meshes that were fun for a couple of renders, but were then cast aside and left to rot in the toybox.