My perspective on what snuffed the flames for myself.

I was excited about Dawn on her release, as it was a new figure to work with. I had my reservations about the HW3D crew, but pushed that aside.

Upon her release, I only had Poser 7, which I was taking her into Daz setting up the scene and exporting it back to poser as obj, applying textures in poser for rendering, and making dynamic clothing for.

They had my support until they extended their big contest. It may sound petty to some of you. But from my perspective, when I work hard on something with a very limited computer and spend money on content in which I normally don't need, and modelled out my own stuff for Dawn for the images I made, by the deadline of the contest using what was available and making it work. Which is what I am guessing was the "challenge" in the first place. Using a dino pc from 2002, Poser 7, Daz Studio 4.whatever version # at the time (which I had to take the time to figure out certain things), wings3d, I didn't get Poser 10 until I had 3 images left for the contest entry limit, which 3 were allowed for each site holding entries.

When they extended the contest, their reasoning was for mainly because the quality of the works already submitted, people wanted to use the morphs that were initially part of the prize pack and weren't even created yet. I am sure there was more reasonings that I am forgetting, but those were the two that miffed me.

The way I see it, is I just spent the past 2 months of my life doing this contest in the spare time I had, with my at then limited resources,when I could have been doing more productive things. and now upon the deadline the contest extending it because the above mentioned reasoning.

Also when stating the discontent with the situation to be met by responces which were in my eyes lacklusters from the vendors and the reps from HW3D. To pretty much getting torn apart by the supporters of the extenion because I expressed an opinion that conflicted their interest. And trust I was being as nice as my claws were allowing me to be.

Sure could have went with the fact that I could do more work for an extended number of entries per site holding the contest. Sure I could have, but why? At that point was when they lost my support on using their figure, any vendor which got snippy at me for posting my disatisfaction over the extenion, lost any future sale from myself.

I could have seen an extenion by a week or two, but not the whole cycle of the contest. The reasoning behind their extenion was weak in my opinion. It made me feel they didn't do as they expected in content sales for the contest, which I get the have  a contest boosts sales angle, but if it doesn't pan out the way you dreamt up, learn from that mistake, but honor your initial conviction. The way it went showed me that their hype they were all about when trying to get Dawn popular was just a marketing angle to try and dethrone a past entity which they may have soured issues with. That single action speaks louder than the empty words of forum posts about patching a warring community. As many others have stated, their $ eyes were too big.

Who knows maybe I am the one wrong. Because how dare I speak my mind. But to give insight as from my perspective, that is why I don't use dawn at all, and is why I don't buy anything for Dawn or buy anything from their site. And is my reasoning to why Dawn's flame has been snuffed out of my content folders. Take it or leave it, it is just my perspective from my experience, and is not everyone's common experience.