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Well  in your predictably ultra cynical scenario, Daz would have to inexplicably lower their  P.A. standards down to... uumm..
hmm lets see...."content paradise" levels.

THis I find a little insulting.  I've spent hours upon countless hours searching through DAZ for clothing, I do clothe my figures, and found very little that would cause me to think about buying.  THe available clothing may be well done, and for some, "Terriffic!", but it doesn't, very uniformly, fit with what I try to reproduce or produce as the case may be.  I've found a few at CP, therefore, I may use a poser figure, and just how well that figure bends under the cloth, who cares?  You don't see it.  Dynamic or hybrid from PoserWorld, I have a ton of, as well as a lot of the freebies from sharecg which suit my purposes.  The quality of things from DAZ may be okay, but in being almost uniformly unusable by me, how much does the quality matter?  Most of it, in any world I'm trying to portray, would bring the wearer to be hustled away in a police car.  I realize there are probably more into the fantasy thing than I am, so I normally don't comment on the "latest and greatest from ______".  Nor do I buy it.  DAZ PA standards are no better or worse than anyone else.

The "I" in Doric is Silent.