"Lets face it, no new character will ever take off at this point.

People complain that there are no new characters of any value, and as soon as a new one is released it is bashed to pieces before it can even take hold.

Lots of people wanted standardized versions on Antonia. How long did that last?

Then they wanted a weight mapped version of Antonia, Same deal...

People wanted a weight mapped V4, that didn't last much longer.... And there are more than a few versions now to boot.

I could go on and on, but the story is the same. The arm chair developers control what happens to a figure by what they post.

There are a lot of arm chair developers around that bash everything that appears, because it isn't "insert whatever". Some have never even downloaded it and admit that. Sort of ironic isn't it....

If anyone else thinks they can create the next big figure, best of luck.

You can give people exactly what they ask for, and they still complain about "insert whatever".

Been there, done that......... On many characters....

The only way to force a new characters reign, is to remove reverse compatability in the programs. We all know that wont happen any time soon. The arm chair developers would have a fit.... "

Well has not DAZ Done Exactly that with DS & "Genesis", after a fashion,??

DAZ IMHO Did exactly what the late Steve jobs did upon his return from exile back to apple many years ago.

He (Jobs) Killed the mac hardware clones to consolidate tight control over the perfect compatibility of Mac hardware and the Mac OS and saved the mac platform from certain oblivion.

Note how it was Apple Computer themselves who got serious and upgraded their aged OS9 ,that could not multitask or even address more than 999 megs of RAM!! , NOT some disparate dedicated, Idealistic,often fanatical third party group of mac partisans largely motivated by an Irrational hatred of Microsoft

Reading these threads I see so many people&factions placing their hopes on one
Saviour figure/Poser vender/Group Collective.. blah blah after another.while inexplicably ignoring the obvious Elephant in the room....SMITH MICRO.

Remember Steve Coopers Meandering blog post Explaining why SM will Not invest development time & Money in a figure they "Dont own"??( paraphrasing)

Well*(no offense to Blackhearted),* but how did the Ryan2Alison2 renovation playout?,
not much later we saw Cooper eat those brave words in the form of a Half hearted, shoe horned, hardware intensive, Kludge called DSON.

Until Smith Micro actually puts some serious Money & effort into some serious alternative figure tech to genesis that leverages every possible built in capability of the CURRENT VERSION of poser then all of these "Crowd sourced"figures will follow the exact same life cycle:

Prerelease Forum Hype: replete with ridiculous Forum signature banners.

Actual release: with the new figures(inevitably short lived), relevancy maintained by the near religious devotion of party disciples through forum posts& images of renders.

Frustration: as the great mass of unenlightened start the usual gripes about lack of content,morphs etc etc...this is the stage where the figure partisans "leadership" take on a more "Combative" approach to the Luddites resulting many locked threads followed by the Exodus of the leadership & "faithful" over to the enlightened safe haven of their own forums.

Resignation: Would be Conqueror of DAZ  soon fades into obscurity and join the rest in the Ashbin of poser history while SM Still charges Hundreds for the next version of Poser Pro.
 

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