Moriador, I don't care about DAZ.  I don't have a personal relationship with DAZ. 

I have (actually, it is moving to had) a business relationship with DAZ.  Which is why since the new webstore rollout, most of my posts have been deleted and I have been counseled by the DAZ forum mods about my "negative attitude and unreasoned criticism".  Which isn't true, my criticism is very reasoned, my negative attitude is based on the facts on the ground and I broke my rose-tinted glasses a long time ago. 

DAZ is very dependant on customers believing that they have a personal relationship with the company.  DAZ's attitude should have that cleared up for everyone by now.

DAZ has made it very clear in their actions, that as a Poser user they don't want my money.  And based on their lack of programming skills on the OSX platform, I have no interest in getting ripped off (again) with their shoddy software.

So the money that used to go to DAZ ($100 a month average from Dec 2004 to Aug 2011) is now going to other vendors.

As a Poser user, the best thing that has happened in the past year is DAZ trying to inflict the grey golum on us.

A year ago, the DAZ Gen4 characters were all that anyone used.  Very little of the Poser 5 or later technology was being used, everyone for the most part was still stuck in the Poser 4 world because of DAZ refusing to move forward.

Look at what we have now - More figures (The SM G3 figures, Antonia, Bella, Michelle, Kez, and more on the way (Lucas and possibley Brad) - Better legacy figures (With weightmapping - people are starting to pull out older characters & freshinging them up).  All of the updates to Poser systems (lighting, rendering) and a thriving ecosystem of experts in everything from figure creation to lighting.

 

The Poser community is no longer waiting on DAZ.  We are forging our own future, where they simply provide sets and props.

 

I am sure DAZ will survive genesis, but I believe they will survive as a much smaller company.