Studio is, and always has been a sales gimick. It's a tinker toy app that fairly usless to me with out the addons. Till studio 3 got the figure set up tools, studio was strickly a load&shoot app to sell you content.

If you go back to the zygot days there were 2 camps. One wanted to make a great app to use and make content. Poser was not in buisness to sell content, they were in buisness to make/sell an app to use and make content, and left content production and sales up to the users.

The other saw the profit in selling content so made an app that did little more then use it, then gave the app away.

The thing to look at is just what has DAZ developed lately? C8.5 sure enough, but look at the shape it is in, it's hardly what I would call a release version. Or the protracted time between beta builds. I have beta tested apps for years, I have never seen an activly depeloping beta that didn't get monthly, or even weekly updates. C8.5's seem about 6 months between builds. This leads me to beleve DAZ no longer has active developers.

Lets look at the eveidence. Genesis was realesed over 2 years ago and never got a update. Studio4 was of coarse released at the same time and has gotten 2 updates{?}. Anyone remember when studio3 was getting monthly updates? Look at the DAZ store, how many of those apps have gotten an update in 3 years? Or since they were updated to be compatable with studio 4.

I've come to the conclusion DAZ is out sorcing it's development, and out sorcing to the slowest cheepest company they could find.

What I am saying is it's highly doubtful DAZ will be able to do what it would take to bring carrara up to date with other like apps because they don't have the develpomental staff to do it. When even free apps are better developed you have to ask just what are you paying for. The carrara 8.5 beta went on for over two years, yet most of the issues that were in the second beta release have remained unchanged, and if anything the release version was bugyer then the last beta release. Note to DAZ, release versions are suposed to be better then the beta.

Yes I would like to see carrara go to a company that would actually activly develop it. But as I said I don't see DAZ selling it, or if they did, genesis and poser compatability wouldn't be part of that deal.