randym77 opened this issue on Aug 03, 2014 ยท 237 posts
shvrdavid posted Sun, 17 August 2014 at 7:52 PM
Quote - I know for a fact that the Poser userbase is shrinking cause there's me for a start, that's one less customer they won't have next release.
Yes, but don't forget that someone that is new to 3D is not going to jump into Blender and rig a character. Someone that is new to 3D is going to want the point and click route. And lets face it, Poser can do just that.
For everyone that moves onto a more complex program at some point, and there will also be others coming into it that are new. If someone came over to your house and saw your 3D stuff then wanted to see how to do it. Would you start Blender or Poser to show them? Chances are good that you would show them more than a few programs, including Poser. Which one would a newbie more likely use? Chances are better than good, the point and click one. Whichever one they choose. If just one chooses Poser, you have been replaced and not affected the user base at all. Two, and you added to it! How many people have bought Poser, because you showed it to them? Either directly, or indirectly. Only the directly part of it can be answered. If someone overheard you talking about Poser and bought it, you may never know that you influenced their decision to add to the user base.
Just because you are going out, does not mean that no one is coming into it either. That is sort of like saying that you will never buy a Ford again (for whatever reason), and suddenly Ford goes out of business because of it. Ford won't go out of business because you bought another brand of car. And someone that never owned a Ford before will buy one the same day. You can say the same for any major brand of car, they get sold everyday no matter what you or anyone else thinks about them.
On a similar note, if everything you ever wanted was added to Poser would you still not use it? Interesting question isn't it. Yes you probably know how to use other programs that can do everything and more, but you still have it. You bought Poser, so even if you stop using it, you are still a registered user on the list of people that used it. Publically stating that you stopped using it does not change the fact that you have it installed, and will probably still use it since you already know how and it is there. You probably have a large Runtime as well, which includes saved scenes etc. If you want to use them in Blender, you will still load Poser, export the scene, then use it in another program. There really isn't a direct route to load a Poser scene directly in most applications. Same goes for Blender, and that can be even more complex because Blender has multiple routes in many areas. (Render engines, which change texture setups, etc)
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