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I'd have to agree for the most part. Having that stuff alongside the launch is a must.

 

So why do we think that never seems to happen?  Is there a reluctance from SM to reach out and get people on board early, like pre-launch early?  Or is there a lack of willingness on the vendor side of things, and if so does that come from a place of 'well SM is a big company if they want me to make stuff for them I need to get paid up front' 

or does it have to do with the development cycle? Sometimes it seems like the content side of things has been rushed through at the last minut, or pushed out before its 100% ready for prime time.  Maybe the cycle could be more phased, wher there is a large content 'update' that trails the poser version release by a month or more.  Going this route would allow some more time to get things right but the content release would -really- have to be worth the wait for the customers to swallow it