butohboy, first, I'm a ten year Poser user, maybe plus or minus a little.  In that ten years, I've seen a lot, and in that time, the daz figures were considered the best of the lot.  For most of that time, had Poser gone under and not resurfaced, it wouldn't have been long and daz would have joined the "also ran" group. 

It was daz that split, two years ago,maybe plus or minus a little, and since then, not one new figure that is natively poser compatible came from daz.

Poser Dawn, Daz Dawn, same figure.  The same cannot be said for V4 and any version of Genesis, which I have just refrained from using the name I prefer for it.  Any version, anything made for genesis is totally unusable in my computer, without putting in that great time waster called dson.  Even then, to me it looks like a low res figure, almost as good as Posey.

The situation now exists, anything made for genesis, I can't use, and I don't cry about it.  It doesn't make any sense to me to sit there with an unfamiliar, quirky, undocumented software to get what I can with one double click to load the figure I want.  It would be nice if some of them had a few more morph dials, but I have enough I can work, and I do NOT have any daz figures left in my computers, I've deleted them all.  (42 of them if you want a number)

Modeling, it seems rather to me and you'll see a link to my crappy  freebies at the bottom, but what I want for structures, forget daz, and even stonemason doesn't make anything I want.  I ain't no city jerk, I'm one of them that was raised three miles from the nearest town, population about 1300.  City scapes are something I don't need, but what I do need, didn't exist.  Getting the picture?  You have vendors that make nothing but DS, and you have vendors that make nothing but Poser.  It exists.  It has existed.  It didn't bother you when the genesis stuff couldn't be  used in Poser, so turn off your tears now.  There will be things for both, if you can't use one in one or the other program, use something else, there isn't any shortage of viable alternatives for either one. 

Knock off the whining and daz versus Poser, there will be a new figure for both, one for you, one for me.  Not one for you and one for me if I could get that software to run in my computer, and then jump through three or four hours worth of hoops to get it.  I'm too old to jump through hoops, if it's going to be a problem, then it's not worth it, I just won't mess with it. 

You've already got it in your head that it's going to be one way or the other, and it isn't.  daz knew there was a hole, they didn't move to fill it, someone else did.  And if memory serves me correct, they weren't the ones to start the split, I seem to remember there was already dissent at daz before genesis came out.  But I didn't watch that too close, not interesting.  They're putting up a new figure, that from what I've seen here is just fantastic, you'll be able to use it, so what's your beef?

Doric the pissed off.

The "I" in Doric is Silent.