Quote - > Quote - > Quote - One of our main projects right now is to revamp the download and install experience. We realize it's a pain and we are fixing it as a high-priority

Might one ask HOW you are fixing it?

I can't reveal too much about it because it may still change substantially. But in a nutshell we will implement a download manager... Perhaps closer to steam or Mac app store. You won't have to think about what to DL or where to put it (outside of your designated preferences)it will just "work" I don't want to debate this too heavily just yet because it's still very much a work in progress and there isn't much I can tell you concretely. I will share more as I can.

Hello,

I think that is exactly the opposite of what people would want.

If you stick to the installers, a simple improvement would be to let them remember to install for Poser as the selected application, similar to the content path (currently they remember the runtime path, but fall back to "DAZ studio" every time. One is tempted to think that this is intentionally). Ideally I would like to see zip files, really! The tons of "program hasn't installed correctly" messages are really really annoying. 

I still buy a lot at DAZ (despite the installers), but if you switch to a "steam-like" content purchase option,  I won't buy such items.

Back to content, I see the development of Genesis from two sides. I welcome DAZ' initiative to create new technology (after all we don't want to stay at old technology all time) and competition drives innovation, which in the end is good for the customers, but of course the concern is that the interoperability of content is reduced more and more. I use Poser, Vue and Carrara. All 3 have different material systems. 2 of them support dynamic hair, but it's different. If now also the core figure diverge, there's not a lot left for a flexible workflow. I therefore hope for a workable good solution to have support for the full feature set of genesis in all my apps. Once that's there, Genesis will go into my shopping cart as well.

 

Best regards,

   Michael