I agree with you :)

SM is doing a lot for Poser since they manage it. And they listen to their customer, this I can honestly say.

I am a betatester for Poser and each time I report  some problem in Mantis I get very quick answer back, each time I point the developer to one forum where people have some strange issues with Poser, they take care of it ASAP.

What email subscrission and advertising for 3rd party character has to do with "Does SM listen to his customers"?..this I really can not understand.

I think too that this is rare today to see something like this. For me it is a real Fair play from SM.

And not verybody who use Poser know about the HireWire shop. Maybe they want to reach all , or most of the Poser user with this kind of advertising for Dawn.

I think we are singing from the same hymn sheet and, as I have said before, it is a very easy to forget that only a small proportion of Poser users use these forums, so there may be little knowledge of Dawn in the wider Poser population.  I do think is it good for SM to make users aware of new figures so once more we agree.

I would much rather they do this and give me new toys like SSS, IDL, The Fitting Room and a very useable morph brush than spend their time on content. Particularly when these features can be used on a third party figure of your choice. 

If SM decided to take Poser in a different direction I might have to review my present policy of buying every upgrade they come up with.  Up to this point though, I love what SM have done with Poser and they have my full support.  A personal view of course, and others have equally valid views which will differ but if SM keep going down the same path they will have my money.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.