Dave-So opened this issue on Sep 20, 2015 ยท 238 posts
michelvanspeybroeck posted Tue, 20 October 2015 at 3:48 PM
RorrKonn posted at 3:34PM Tue, 20 October 2015 - #4234464
michelvanspeybroeck posted at 4:15PM Tue, 20 October 2015 - #4234451
As a longtime poser user (since poser 2) i have recently downloaded daz studio and i am using it more then poser now. I did not like switching, but i had to. There is to much content out that is daz studio only and it is great content. I stil use poser, i will only upgrade poser to the next generation if it where possible to utilize new quality content.
All this in the long term is not good news for us users. I strongly belief in the benefits of companies having to compete. If daz would turn out to be the sole winner, we as user will pay for it money wise or in lesser quality. That is the nature of business.
So i hope that somehow there stil is a bright future for poser. I just can not see how that could be achieved.
I guess SM has some serious homework to do.
Smith Micro has a list of softwares they sell.Poser is a software.
DAZ is a vendor.I know they make DAZ Studio but that was only so they could have more control as a vender. make there meshes compatible for all softwares .They even have Max n Maya on there home page Poser to
Smith Micro is not a vendor. None of the companies that owned Poser ever was a vendor. 90%+ of Poser users has always depended on DAZ n Vicky.
I am aware that SM is a software company with many titles but as in all companies every product has to make a profit and as big as possible.
The succes of poser was in no small account made possible by the symbiosis between daz and poser. That is no longer the case and poser is in real need of other content creator(s). Sure there are content creators in this community and although i admire the hard work of these creators it is impossible as smal business to compete with daz.
So although sm does not provide content they surely must be aware that there profits from poser software will diminish if they do not come up with some third company creating content or if they would invest in the vendors that still are creating quality content from this community.