Forum: Freestuff


Subject: the Dawn of a new day...

HiveWire3D opened this issue on Jun 19, 2013 ยท 4422 posts


butohboy posted Mon, 01 July 2013 at 11:37 PM

Hey, I'm like you and the prospect of a figure that works for both is exciting. I'm just saying that if vendors go at it with a "support whatever" and hivewire doesn't have a group dedicated to making sure it works on both platforms, which if they are financially backed then that should be a priority, then it will go the same was as so many V4 killers. Without community adoption, which leads to vendor support, which leads to more community adoption, and keep feeding back on itself, it won't reach critical mass and just be another "man, that was a nice dream... back to V4." And community adoption either needs very deep pockets behind it to support a company for the year or more it takes to take root, or broad enough appeal that everyone will jump. And that latter I see having a hard time coming if it is essentially two different figures that DS built content will only really be useable if you are rich enough to own Poser 2014 for the changing room or the vast majority of content is put out with support for the most commonly used versions of both Poser and DS. Not a hater, just saying that being adopted by only the Poser community isn't going to make it the cure-all everyone is hoping for... and in order to be adopted by the DS community, content has to not be split which, from the sounds of it, vendors are already planning on it being that way. But hey, what do I know? I'm a bear. I suck heads off fish.