Quote - This isn't a let's trash Dawn thread. Seriously, you people drive me nuts sometimes. On one hand I have to deal with the Dawn cheerleading section over at Hivewire who don't want you saying anything remotely negative, and then over here where you mention the name, and people attack like piranha.

I see why people have left the Renderosity Forums. Maybe I should join the rush.

Well, if your forum base is mostly stuck in a Poser 7 timewarp, it shouldn't surprise anyone that people are leaving the forums. (And prefer V4 to any other figure)

The thing is - I was really hoping Dawn would let me retire V4.  My disappointments are based on the fact that I had such high hopes for the figure.  Those hopes were dashed by Chris' lacksidasical approach to developing morphs for the figure (and a corresponding male figure) and the vendors reluctance to do anything other than make yet more generic early 20's Caucasians. Which we already have an overabundance of courtesy of V4.

I have found the Faces of Asia & Faces of Africa products useful for Dawn, but without these types of morphs being available as a merchant resource, figures are limited for the most part to Caucasian only.

If Hivewire had released Dawn AND the full morph set at the same time, the Poser community could have easily moved to the Vicky Who? era.  Instead, we had an initial rush which has been reduced to a trickle of content.  Another thing that has slowed down my Dawn purchases is the fact that:

1.  With Lyrra's fitting room magnets, I can get V4 clothing on Dawn in about 30 seconds.  So there isn't actually a need to buy new clothing for Dawn.

2.  Most of what is being made (clothing content wise) is the same kind of hookerware that has already saturated the 'Rosity marketplace with V4.

Unfortunately, most vendors imagination doesn't extend beyond "Me too".  Seriously, how many strip clubs do we need in Poser?