As a new convert to Poser (January this year), I always thought the Daz/Poser wars were just about what program you used. Having looked at these forums, I have discovered it goes far deeper than that. It appears that unless you use Poser and only Poser native figures etc, you are an outsider and don't belong here. Well that is fine with me but you will find with this attitude, you will not attract new people and the community will dwindle and die.

 

Now the question was "Why are you still using V4?"

When I started in 3D in January 2010, I downloaded the free basic version of Daz Studio3 and V4 came with it. She was the first figure that I used and over a period of time I built up quite an affection for her and spent a small fortune on characters, clothing etc for her.

Then along came Genesis and V5. Poor old V4 got pushed to the sidelines and I heavily bought into this new figure. We all know how quickly that was superseded and I personally refused to buy into this new version, as to me it was going to be a money making merry-go-round, having to purchase and support each new incarnation of Victoria.

Being a content Junkie, I reverted to using V4 and started purchasing all the great content for her that I had missed while supporting Genesis, as well as the new products that are still being released.

Being fed up with having to keep altering the materials to make them work in Daz Studio, in January this year I came over to the dark side and purchased Poser 10 and quickly upgraded to Poser Pro . Now I am purchasing all the Poser only content that I couldn't use before.

V4 is not perfect, but then who is. She has the largest amount of content for any figure and the speed at which new ones are coming out, I don't think she will ever be beaten.

To me, she is an old friend and I for one will continue to use her and support the vendors who still make content for her.

Now I have had my say, I will leave you all to your petty bickering and try to find somewhere that a Poser and V4 user is welcome.