Well the last few threads have raised an interesting point.  The thread started because someone selling content was clearly not selling enough or not as much as before and drew the conclusion that the Poser/DS base was shrinking.  That is however a biased veiw as it looks only at Poser/DS users that are buying content.

I am certainly buying less for a number of reasons.  Firstly I can use the fitting room in Poser Pro 2014 but I have also learnt to model simple stuff which also allows me to adapt someone else mesh for my own use.  I also continue to use V4WM and have a vast Runtime of content I really don't need to add to.  Had a new Poser figure been introduced that was massively better than V4 (from my point of view) I would have spent more than I do at the moment.

I do not want to open up the usual debate but it is a fact of life that changes at Daz also changed and split the market so this will have impacted where people spend their money and thus there is a possibility that the buying base has fragmented. 

Even looking at the buying section of the user base leaves out a large number of users that fill their runtime with free content. 

All this shows it is impossible to give a answer on the size and state of the user base and no one can predict the furture.  One persons 'must have' feature is another person irrelevant feature, for each person that stops using a program how many people start. No ones knows, so predicting what will be around in 4, 5 or even tens years is anyones guess but if Poser is no longer sold does that mean I will stop using it. 

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.