kobaltkween posted at 6:48PM Mon, 19 October 2015 - #4233437

For me, "Why leave V4?" isn't quite the right question. For me, it's at least three different questions.

Why support a new figure? Because vendors won't keep making things for V4 (or M4). If you like buying new stuff, and you want that new stuff to work in Poser, you should support a modern Poser figure. Otherwise, vendors will eventually stop supporting Poser altogether. It's about time to you know what or get off the pot.

I have Dawn and SE Dawn and Dusk and their morphs and some skins -- and some gorgeous dynamic clothing. But before I buy anything else for them, I need to see something I want. I'm not just going to buy for the sake of putting money in vendors' hands. Hivewire might as well put a "donate" button on the site, if that's what we need to do.

Unfortunately, it's a catch-22. If people don't buy, vendors don't make. But if vendors don't make, people won't buy. This isn't solved by asking people to buy things they don't want. Nor is it solved by asking vendors to make things people don't buy. That's the market, and unfortunately, if Poser content cannot make it in the market, then It speaks to a weakness in the business model somewhere. This was predicted by numerous people. And now, when I look at Renderosity and RDNA, I see those predictions coming true.

Now it's got to the point that customers like me aren't asking whether such and such a figure will continue to be supported, but whether the software itself has a future. [Edit: I think it does -- among those DIY'ers who like to kitbash, convert, and model their own stuff. But I don't have the same optimism about Poser content because, for obvious reasons, content was never strongly enough supported by the very people who like to boast that they make their own. It's the non-creators that get belittled so much in the community who mostly funded all that development you described. And now, I guess, too many of us are saying, "No."]

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