I started with Poser and stayed with Poser because of how well it integrated with Vue.

I was around when DS first came on the scene as an alpha. I bought DS3A and learned my way around it. I've also tried DS4 and Genesis and was not too lazy to find out how it worked either.

However, I stay with Poser because it is well documented so it is easier for me to learn how to do things. I find the rendering and materials much better in Poser and I adore dynamic clothing and the freedom the cloth room gives to make clothing items easily for any character.

Having a hybrid figure is not important to me as I have plenty of unique characters already. The bending is also not that important as I very seldom render naked people. If I do have the urge then there are Poser weight mapped characters. My main focus is females and toons. Poser gives me all I want.

Gensis is ugly out of the box. The Poser characters may also be ugly out of the box but there are so many possibilites with all of them. Blackheared has proven that with Anastasia and Tyler.

I am happy with V4 and will continue to support V4 for as long as vendors produce stuff for it. Just because there is a new kid on the block doesn't mean everything else has to stop. People should use what they want to use and create what they want to create and not feel pressurised into things because of what others think and do.