Quote - ! But business models and marketplace behavior... THOSE, I do know more about. I'm sad about the way things are going, because I've seen it before, I've seen the ultimate results, and I'm afraid that I now see the writing on the wall. That having been said, it has nothing to do with the software or the products, and I think that these would continue to be available and possibly improved in a Chap. 11 or 13 situation. I'm excited about the future of 3D, and I hope that users continue to get together and share ideas and work. I've learned so much from these boards in such a short time. :)

I think you are very right from a business point of view. DAZ manouvering smacks of something burning under their feet to hit a big one, or else. They havent hit a big one since V4, and thats a long time. Content sales frm her are no longer sufficient to support the store AND software development. 

My take is that daz has been overextended for a while and the investors ae looking for returns on the capital already, and getting tired of returns way below the projected. You know there have been investors, daz had press releases about it, not so much in poserdom, but elsewhere. Daz was piositioning themselves for serioys expansions, but none of them caught on beyond the aveage market percentage capture. (Dynamic clothing, gaming marketplace, bryce, cararra and hexagon, genesis... are the ones I cam recall off the top of my head)

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