Quote - Isn't that why it is free or why the mil 4 figures were free for so long, why genesis is free with studio 4?

Genesis free with Studio is about the same as the Gen 4 figures being offered for free.  At the time I got the Gen 4 figures, they weren't free, but even then, if you wanted to do anything with them, you had to buy the morph paks and textures unless you could settle for the base figure.  Studio may have been an attempt, how successful I don't know, to increase the market for their figures, and of course, the associated paks to go with it.  Dork and Posey, Judy and Don, Penny and Will were all free with Poser 5, probably because it offered something to get started with.  They weren't bad, but the DAZ figures were better, even if at higher cost.  My gut feeling, DS is secondary to the figures, the figures are secondary to the clothing etc.  If you want to use one of them, you have to have the other and on down the line.  

A marketing strategy, maybe successful, I have no idea what it did.  But buying hair with no figure to put it on doesn't make sense, nor does buying clothing with no figure, and each of them is a sale.  Poser was then "expensive", I had to think on it a long time before I decided to jump in.  Poser had the benefit of being at least halfway easy to use, compared to anything else available, and was far cheaper.  So, DS, free, a lot of people that couldn't afford or justify the price of Poser became customers for figures, clothing, props, that wouldn't otherwise have been customers. 

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