will2power posted at 8:59PM Wed, 02 December 2015 - #4242084

Male_M3dia, You have your opinion and I have mine, and what I see tells me the direction that they're going is not the direction that I want to go. I made the decision and I'm sure you'll make whatever purchase decision you want to make, just like I did with Poser. I've never used smart content and working on this for 4.9 tells me that they have prioritized DRM and features useless to me over improvements I have seen develop in other softwares who are less apt to hold on to outdated methods. That is the DAZ priority --it's not mine. So I'm transitioning to environments that provide the animation tools and components that I deem necessary. That's the wonderful thing about the free market. If you want to hold onto DAZ, then that's fine --I choose to move on. The funny thing is, the only thing this whole thing has done is galvanize my resolve to do it.

I'm sure people's speculations will drive them to do things that end up costing them in the long run rather than taking time to look and understand the facts. I'm simply not that alarmed right now based on what I see and will wait until it shakes out. I'm doubting it anywhere near doomsday, and like always, those people tend to come back.. just don't make too much of a fuss because the words you leave are the words you end up eating ;) And over the last few years, I've seen lots of people eating hearty word salads from their angry posts that I still remember.