Quote - > Quote - The only thing that DAZ has that will draw new customers to them is a free DAZ Studio. Established users, have already made their choice. I know many people use both Poser and DS, but I suspect I'm one of many who thinks why should I have two tools to do the same thing. Yes I have DAZStudio installed, but I dont think I've ever used it. I certainly don't desire Gen 1 or 2 enough to start using it...

Yeah but it doesn't retain them. DAZ's lack of documentation is their biggest problem. Most people don't have the time or inclination to do trial and error or wait for someone to answer the same question they've answered 40 times over on the forums.

I'm primarily a Genesis user, my friend got me into DS. Both of us think that Gen 2 is a backwards step.  Gen 1 hasn't been around anywhere long enough to be releasing a new figure. The enhancements aren't that great anyway and could have been added as an update to existing figures in my non-technie opinion. Maybe a technie person can say they couldn't but to me it doesn't look like that big of a deal.

In addition to ticking off the Poser crowd, Daz has now managed to annoy and split the Genesis users. If all new Daz content is Gen 2 focused you've got to wonder if the customer base will be large enough for Daz's bottom line.

I also read somewhere on one of the forums someone was suspect of Daz and their content and whether they would have to repurchase content for G2/V6 that they already had for G1/V5..  Lo and behold about a day or so from the release of G2/V6 there are now G2/V6 versions of content that came out originally for G1/V5.

I use Poser more for rendering and what not and DS for making poses I never got heavily into DS I find that I just can't get it do things that I can do in Poser far more easily.

You know you enjoy 3D Art when you realize that your life is a piece of 3D Art. :)

AMD 7900X3D, 64 GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5 Ram, Asus Prime X670-P Wifi MB, PNY RTX 4070Ti Super 16GB, 14TB SSD's & HDD, Windows 11, Poser 9 / Pro 2012 / Pro 2014, Daz Studio 4.22.