"Don't ONE of you have any faith that a new figure will come along for you to spend your hard earned cash on?"...

"it's become too much like the forums where they debate politics and religion"

Within these two statements you may find an explanation for the bitter emotionalism around this issue.

IMHO knowingly or unknowingly For too many people here
V-chick,and to a lessor extent, poser itself has become an Iconic Idol that has become subject of a bizarre form of pagan style worship.

You had a precarious balance between the Main Orthodoxy that set "Church" doctrine
(File Formats, Runtime structures,trends, Vendor requirements, etc)

You had the priest class (ie  poser merchants/vendors) who faithfully applied the doctrine and produced the content and called the "faithful" to come and buy
and you have  the "Faithful" worshippers who happily disposed of their(mostly fixed) incomes faithfully hoarding gigs upon gigs of content that they will never use for anything more than one or two gallery renders.

And of course the" Goddess" herself ( Vicky) along with her erstwhile ,less popular ,cuckhold( sp?) "Micheal"
was faithfully maintained and updated by those former Zygote Acolytes known as DAZ.

Along that way you had popular high priest of the DAZ branch
Put forth a "revelation" that the DAZ branch would be  soon creating a  FREE competing figure posing& rendering application(Church) of its own following recent turmoil in corporate  ownership of the Main branch(poser).

This announcement was soon followed by a Dramatic ,albeit short lived,  breakaway and direct challenge to the Daz branch of the holy alliance by this very same popular former high priest
and some of his most ardent followers in the personification of
the Doomed $90 USD figure  "Apollo Max" .

Its producer and his followers
Woefully underestimated the depths of the pockets of the DAZ branch ,the overwhelming influence of its marketing juggernaught and loyalty of its followers.

The "rebellion"soon dissolved
"Apollo" became a freebie,
and was rendered completely inert by a deadly combination of the successful release of a well made  "M4" and the highly public "bridge burning" by its  eccentric leader with every major poser content outlet.

To this day he remains in a self imposed "exile" although some of his former disciples still run the old "Apollo Ultimate poser figure" Forum banners as a matter of
rote religious habit.
(perhaps secretly hoping for a miraculous resurrection of their  Elusive leader)

The DAZ branch with its ever evolving "DAZ studio" Application  ,quickly grew into its own Sect
that began boldly Deviating from traditional Orthodox Doctrine
(File formats ,Figure,Construction,content creation etc,)

Many orthodox "practitioners"( poser content vendors) embraced  the "new testament" and joined the Elite ranks of the  DAZ sect as Favored "PA's".

Those orthodox "practitioners" that followed the established traditions remained  Exclusivley with poser and derisively dismissed the "Dazites" as an insignificant sect/cult with  no real real relevance as their "Church" had no Dynamic Cloth or  hair.

Secure in the Assumption that ,despite the relatively minor acts of heresy in traditional doctrine being committed by the new Dazite Sect (File formats ,Figure,Construction,content creation etc,)
Their venerable "Goddess"
V-chick"and her highly and endless deluge of coveted slutwear,
would always remain available to the true original "church",

After all making her a Daz Studio only product would most certainly destroy  all commerce in the Emperium,
(the hooker wear must flow!!)

Minor skirmishes continued between the sectarian groups until
the Daz Sect did the unthinkable and Created a new Form of the
V-Goddess that does not fully function on poser (GENESIS)

Resulting the the all out, Bitter angry Hate filled Jihaad  that continues unabated today.

Cheers

 

  

   

 

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