"The more I look at the situation, the more I think that Poser users are not interested in creating 3D art but in specifically using Poser.

It would be an interesting experiment to offer them a perpetual 3DStudio/Maya/MODO/Houdini ownership/upgrade in exchange for Poser: I bet that they would decline the offer."

Well to be fair I use Maxon Cinema4D,Blender ,Daz studio,Iclone pro & Natural motion endorphin ,to name a few, all along with poser content for motion transfer to poser or rendering poser content.

However if I had to agree to Cease All poser usage as a condition to get those licenses I would have declined the offer.

I do not believe in Zero Sum absolutes when it comes to  creative tools.

 I am a "CG generalist" for whom tools, OS's Company politics do not matter.

I will learn &use whatever tool/OS  to achieve My paying clients specific objectives

And I have observed that the people, in web forums, who have this Zero sum Mentality about their beloved program or OS,

Rarely, if ever ,have anything compelling to show Their

ACTUAL SKILLS & CREATIVITY using that beloved program or OS

 Just alot of predictable evangelical preaching about how their APP/OS will "rule the Future"

My point is that most of the poser user base feels no need to even use poser content in OTHER programs if it requires leaving the old Kia Krause interface and  workflow.

Thats fine no harm.

This is why SM ( or whomever may own the poser program), will always have a "captive core of paying customers no matter what Draconian,cumbersome product activation scheme they choose to implement or whatever sub par native figures they choose to fob off on the buyers.

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