DalekSupreme opened this issue on Jun 23, 2015 ยท 332 posts
Keith posted Wed, 01 July 2015 at 5:01 PM Online Now!
Just like how Autodesk doesn't create any significant content on their own, which is why no one would ever consider using Maya, Softimage or 3ds Max, amirite? No. You're not right, in fact you're so wrong you just divided by zero.
Comparing Poser to Autodesk's software is like comparing an old dusty VCR to the entertainment industry.
Your VCR is useless if you don't have any content to go with it.
That whooshing sound was my point going by. DAZ Studio is absolutely no different in that regard: delete all your content, and what are you going to use Studio for, hmm? My point was that just because the software company doesn't provide content does not mean by definition the software is useless or less valuable or whatever.
Think about your VCR analogy, or any related kind of technology: just because Samsung doesn't produce movies doesn't mean their product for watching or recording said movies is worthless. It just means there's a separate market to supply the content for them. No one says my TV on the wall is worthless because Samsung doesn't produce any television shows that appear on it. If people went around proclaiming that "Hey Samsung doesn't have any equivalent to Game of Thrones! Man, their TVs suck!", people would wonder what was wrong with them, and yet when people go around saying "Man, Smith-Micro has nothing like the DAZ Figures, so Poser sucks", people nod sagely even though those are two identical statements.
This isn't slagging Studio users: the Poser users who think that the most important thing that can appear in the next version is a new figure make the same mistake.
Complaining that a piece of software doesn't do X, or that another program can do Y better, or that X can't handle content Y can, that's fair and legit because you're comparing apples and apples.