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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

 

You know, I think at least part of it has a lot to do with vendors not wanting to get on board with native poser figures at launch (or just about any other figure for that matter), due to the misconception that most people don't use native figures. Again, just speculating, but drawing from passed-on info regarding a few of the more recent figures where vendors were supposedly signed on to have content ready at figure launch, but failed to show up, and never saw anything from them. The DAZ needles are dug in deep. If it's not somehow connected to DAZ, then it's pretty damned near impossible to rally any content support early on. I speak from personal experience there, as I have sent out e-mails asking others if they'd like to work on projects, and every response has basically been "its not DAZ so I can't risk it". Not those words exactly, but that's the basic jist of it. The only 3rd party figures I know of that have launched with any real content support seems to come from groups of people who are basically friends with a common goal. The rest of us are pretty much SOL. 

That's been my impression at least. 

 

~Shane