chaecuna posted at 10:03AM Fri, 23 October 2015 - #4234862

All this discussion is irrelevant: that is relevant is that vendors throughout the community are massively and increasingly offering Studio only content. Since they keep doing so, it is not a question of just testing the market but a sustained users preferences shift. That some prominent vendors have officially dropped Poser is just the icing on the cake.

Well, that's the question -- in a nutshell. Is it in fact a "sustained users preference shift"? I think it probably is. But that doesn't mean that the loss of those customers is necessarily a huge hit to SM's bottom line, particularly if they were in the habit of upgrading their software once every ten years.

Again, possibly not a big problem for SM. But a big issue for Poser content vendors -- at least until the market stabilizes. And it will be some time before that happens.

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