Looking at the original question and the recent responses tends to suggest that, if SM does not promote it's figures then it is a foregone conclusion that they do not listen.  It could be that they do listen but have decided that spending time with content is not their game plan.

There was a similar thread about two weeks ago questioning whether SM should concentrate their efforts on software features or conent and there were a number of users who felt they should conentrate on the software and not content.  That is not to say there weren't a lot of people of the opposing view but, I suspect, that while someone from SM will have read the thread, I doubt very much if either view influenced SM very much.

I do think supporting Dawn is a good idea and I do not see it makes them beholding to Hivewire any more than DAZ in the past, or Rendo and RDNA for that matter.  The fact is SM, rightly or wrongly, appear to see the software features is a higher priority and I doubt little said on this forum or any other is going to change that in a hurry.

 

 

 

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