The focus on weight maps and high end lighting screwed Poser out of long-term sales because it depends solely on the sales of Vicki4 that has been out for over 4 years and whose market is saturated.

Smith-Micro's approach depended on a Vicki5 that had the exact same approach as Vicki 1, 2 ,3 and 4... they assumd it would be useable in Poser.

 So... my thinking was

 A year from now... what does this mean for this entire market?

 

A year from now I have no idea on what I will be spending my money on.  Last year I spent a lot at Daz but towards the end I stopped my PC membership and now spend very little.  I had no trouble spending filling my shopping cart here for over $75 to claim my prime money off voucher.  That included a a few scenes, a few tutorials and other orders included stuff for V4 as I have used her so much more in her V4VM form. 

So a year from now, who knows, accept I doubt very much I will be using any new Daz figure.  I bet I am still spending on Poser though, somewhere - assuming I live that long.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.