Quote - We will never be distributing zip files as is done here on Rendo.  It just isnt the direction we are comfortable with.  We will, however, make something as easy to use as possible, our goal is to make download and intallation non-issues that are no longer an obstacle.

Actually, some of your older installers - ones that remembered the install path and remembered the program to install for worked fairly well IMHO. There has been a problem with QC with your installers, but that has been down to human beings - it's no easier or harder to fix those particular problems with any other system as it's the human beings that are at the core of the problem.

Steam, too, has fouled up things from time to time.

Quote - [once again, it is useless to debate this at this point. If you would like to offer positive ideas for what a cool DL and install system could be like, then please do.  Realistically,  I have to say that we will not be going to a Renderosity-style zip file paradigm.

Surely after you have produced your intrusive DRM downloader will be far too late to debate whether it's a good idea or not?

IMHO DAZ development effort would be better spent fixing Genesis, fixing DAZ Studio, Hexagon, Bryce, Carrara and the web site and producing new 3D content. Not duplicating Operating System functionality becuase you think you can do it "cooler". That's how we end up with problems that Adobe installers and the like are prone to.