Quote - > Quote - What Wolf359 said in their first post and...

The entire market now rests on Gen 4 DAZ people who are years old.

How are you going to get brand new customers to buy Poser? Another complicated new advancement they can't figure out on their own - an advancement that is rarely used?

You can no longer depend on DAZ to supply the content base of a person. Poser has to make a 2014 Posette/Dork or die

 

Yep. The logic is simple: If it forms the backbone of your business model, and you don't control/own it, you're screwed.

Quote - Ok, the DAZ Gen 4 base items are a couple years old.  So what?  

...and if DAZ woke up one morning and decided, hey, let's stop allowing downloads of gen4 figures to all but past purchasers w/ it specifically in their order history?

I guarantee you that any further growth in Poser would stop almost dead cold, right then and there (Pirate Bay pending, natch). Smith Micro knows it, and even though you won't admit it, upon thinking it through, you know it too.

Quote - A new Poser user will start out with the folks in Poser - Ryan, Alyson, Simon & Sydney etc just like I did. 

...until they see all the pretty renders using that "Victoria" figure they keep hearing about. Then the default figures (which are grossly unsupported anyway) get dropped like a radioactive turd. You know it. I know it. You may as well just admit it.

'course, there is this option:

Quote - The great thing is unlike when I started with Poser 5, there are products like Xdresser, WW (included with Poser) and Morphing Clothes - V4's wardrobe has been every girls' wardrobe for some time now. 

...which curiously does bupkis for fixing the bad joints, limited (if any) morphability, and the often glaring mesh problems found in most figures out there.

Hate to say it, but until SM gets off their butts and comes up with a decent mesh set of their own, they're at DAZ' mercy.