Random thoughts:

I think some people may be looking at this the wrong way.

Yes SM is promoting Dawn, but at the same time they are also promoting the developers of Dawn.

Yes, Dawn is (insert what you think about her here). But that is not the whole story in any way.

Hivewire is a group of talented people that make characters and content. They don't wade thru millions of lines of code for programs everyday. Some of the crew at Hivewire have a track record for developing Poser characters that actually get used. Who would have thought..... I seriously doubt that Dawn is the last character that the folks from Hivewire will ever make, it isn't the first. I can also tell you from personal experience that Hivewire does listen to what users say.

SM didn't make V1-V4, and look what happened there.... Just about every other character that came out during that run was not embraced by the average Poser user, including the ones that came with Poser.

Lots of people complained when you know who stopped making Poser characters. Now we have a developer that is making characters for Poser, again. Dawn is in version 1, how many of you gave up on Victoria at version 1  ????

Food for thought...

Now before anyone fires back at me I would rather we have tons of characters to choose from, than not. Use whatever characters you want too, and be glad that developers take the time to make new ones, and build on them. I still use characters as far back as Posette, and even earlier ones for crowd scenes.

I look at SM decision about Dawn as a good thing, not a bad one.

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