Quote - I'm quite surprised to see several posts over at Daz saying that this will entice Poser users to D|S instead. Is that just because it's free? If so, wouldn't they already be using the free D|S version anyway? Or are all other Poser users that desperate to get Genesis?

 

Snerk......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

And why would this particular ploy be any more successful than the ones they used when DS, DS2, and DS3 came out? Those posts you mention are more group delusion than anything else. Yeah, they will get some newbies to CG who have no clue what they are getting, but I'm sorry. Their Apple-fied pseudo app has already had the chance to woo the Poser user. Didn't happen. And sure Poser users would like to play with the  g-thing.....but it doesn't work in Poser. You can kludge it to an extent, but you get a crippled featured knockoff of a unimesh Vickie.

 

The only 'game changing announcement' in this whole thing is in subtext: 'We screwed up in our assumptions that one unimesh figure with some nifty morphing ability was going to hypnotize an educated, experienced user base into tossing a familiar app aside for one that has fewer features and no documentation. Even worse, we broke the carefully assembled habit machine that has had users throwing $$$$$$ at us every time we announce a new figure. Since hell will most decidedly be hosting the Winter Olympics before we so much as suggest we screwed our own pooch, we'll toss a moribund modelling app, a horribly slow landscape app that languished in Corel's vault for nigh onto a decade before we scarfed it, and our Great App Hope(tm) with the content tools that others paid for out there for free and hope for the best'.

 I wish them luck, but the sad truth is that two of the three tools are generations behind the curve. Newbies won't know, but those of us who have tried in the past to fit those apps into a useable pipeline know how behind the curve they are. And with the g-thing not working in Poser, and no new v-thing or m-thing in the offing, all the figure creators out there see a chance to make something new and not have it bulldozed under by a slick ad campaign.

 

How it all works in the end?

We shall see.......