@pumeco

I agree to a point. I thinks it's obvious that the reason DAZ made Studio Pro free was because users were far more willing to shell out cold hard cash for Poser to create their scenes and shell out cold hard cash to populate those scenes with DAZ and DAZ compatible content. I've used both Studio Pro 4+ and Poser Pro 2014. Even tho Studio is free to me, I'm still more willing to pay for Poser Pro because I like it better. There are things that Poser does - Face Room, Cloth Room, Hair Room - that I would love to use but don't because they are either not compatible with the figures - Vicky and Mike - that I prefer to use or they are just too hard to use with those figures. I've seen Nerd's tutorial on Poser's fitting room, watched it a few times in fact, but I sill can't make that room work with Vicky. I'm sure that's more my fault than it is Poser's fault. I'm a dilettante, a hobbyist. I'm a professional photographer, have been one my entire adult life. The reason why I do CG 3D is because it gives me the opportunity to create realistic scenes that would be very difficult, maybe even impossible, and hugely expensive to create in a camera. One of my biggest complaints about Poser, other than the messy library organization, is that the various customization rooms - fitting, hair, cloth, material - are so Byzantine and not at all intuitive. They may be discernible to professionals or people who've spent countless hours over long years using them, but for most of us, they're simply too opaque. There's really nothing at all intuitive about them. And let me be clear, I've been a Photoshop user for over 20 years. I've learned it and know it well because I've used it daily since Photoshop 2.5 was introduced. In fact I'm quite comfortable using most of Adobe's creative suite. So I'm hardly someone who doesn't know and isn't comfortable using complex, high end CG software.

**I think the reason why Nerd created this survey and started this thread was because, as the now head of product development for Poser, he wanted to know what Poser users liked and didn't like about Poser. The problem with surveys is that don't always ask the questions you'd like to answer and they don't always give you the option to answer questions the way you'd like to. I truly do hope that Nerd's been following this discussion. I'm just one of thousands of Poser's users but I hardly think my concerns are in a vacuum. I like Poser and I'm still willing to pay for it rather than use the free option that I can get from DAZ. I don't think making Poser more compatible with DAZ's content is a threat to Poser and I don't think that giving Poser users better native character content is a threat to DAZ. It just gives all of us more and better options. What's wrong with that. 
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