My Jeep needs a powersteering pump, the neutral sending switch is giving me greif, the turn signal is broke on one side so wont auto off and being half deaf I don't realize it's on, the drivers seat is shot, the paint is scratched. So should I give it up?

Are you mad?   Give up my Jeep?   I'd rather do what ever I can to fix it

And with DAZ and carrara all I can do is gripe 

"Developers have finite resources."

"The hard reality is maybe Cararra is not selling enough to generate a high enough potential return to invest in solving these issues".

You make it sound like DAZ is doing poorly, quite the contray, DAZ is doing quite well, it has an exsive amount of money coming in compared to it's cost of operation.

And DAZ has never promoted carrara with the vim and vigor it does with Studio. Look around, the only place you saw anything about the release of Carrara 8.5 was on the carrara forums, and pretty much from users not DAZ. That is the way it has been since DAZ bought carrara. DAZ has always fail to promote it well, if at all.

So the free app; Studio, get 6 updates in 3 years, and the paid for app gets one. Does that sound right, or fair to you? Why should I buy something DAZ is failing to suport? So once again DAZ costs it's self sales.

If carrara isn't selling well all the blaim is on DAZ.

DAZ doesn't seem to realize carraraests are just as much customers as Studioers.

I wouldn't be in this forum if I didn't use Studio and was a DAZ content customer. But I am forever made to feel like a second class citizen at DAZ. The way to change that isn't to leave DAZ.