It's my opinion that not everything is a formula or based on a specific process.  There are many other reasons that artists do things beyond profit margins, popular support or whatever else someone finds to be an ideal that galvanizes folks together.

Artists are also driven by passion, their environment (online or not), their peers and all sorts of other touch-feely-fuzzy things.  I wager that a lot of people do this because they want to be independent and not truly employed.  Most of us have been there, know what its like, know how hard it can be to find a great employer, good working conditions and so on.

I feel like okay, DS and Genesis floats your boat? Fantastic!  Being at DAZ does it for you? Awesome!  But some folks feel that way about Poser (with or without true or perceived shortcomings or whatever else is cited).  Some folks feel that way about RDNA or Renderosity or YUR or wherever else they want to call home.

I just don't get that someone cannot calculate that people might want something different than they want.  That's how it comes across on some of these threads where people are arguing and pointing and griping.  Want galvanization?  All this fighting and nonsense does nothing but firmly entrench each person on their position.

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