"And ALL of what you just said is Daz's doing! LOL They're the ones that started the freebie train and deep discounts and put prices in the toilet. THEY are the ones that devalued every other vendors product at the time. The fact that they are now trying to reverse that is testament to just how much prices fell into the pit because of them. I remember at the time thinking how I really wished they wouldn't put everything out for free, because I knew what would follow - an entitled customer base that thought that if they got the figure for free, the stuff for it should be dirt cheap or free. That's Daz's fault...lol. Adn the fact that they're moaning about it now falls on deaf ears, really it does."

Well said!
Daz drove down prices and peoples expectations to unsustainable levels.
 
And alternatively Curious Labs, Efrontier and Smith Micro, et al
Rode the gravy train along the way by focusing on a few new poser
application features while putting forth native poser figures that ranged from lackluster to utterly embarrassing.

Secure in the knowledge that poser buyers would remain comfortably in poser and get their lowcost/free poser compatible content from DAZ

Yeah yeah I know they built "content paradise" but IMHO frankly the overall quality of the stuff over there was often shockingly subpar compared to the DAZ store.

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