I would not be at all surprised if there is a downturn in the number of products being purchased here for Dawn, and thus an apparent lack of incentive for vendors to produce such and so the spiral down continues. I doubt however this has much to do with Dawn and a lot more to do with Rendo.

Since September of last year I have purchased a number of products for Dawn but none of them from here, I purchased them from Hivewire3D in the most part. There are a numbers of reasons for this. Firstly their voucher system is fair and easy, the more you buy the more you save but everyone that buys earns vouchers. Much fairer than the coupon system here that has limited use as they cannot be used on many products. Secondly they know how to run a forum and despite the recent hack they had they have come back with a better forum than before, it also works and was clearly tested well before going live. Amazing then that bigger sites and bigger teams can't seem to get a forum running or moderate anywhere near as well. Even more amazing is you can read forum after forum and thread after thread with Poser and Daz users not only being civil to each other but actually helping each other. Of course the fact the Dawn can used in both Poser and DS means we have a common bond and an interest in what others are doing irrespective of the software used. Put another way, it is a group of people more interested in the art than the software used.

I am firmly behind Dawn since the SE version and all the stuff I purchased for the original Dawn still works with Dawn 2 and Dawn SE. So rather than having to repurchase all the the Dawn stuff I have been able to invest in Dusk and the Hivewire horse instead. I am also confident that Dawn will be around for a while and will stay compatible rather than the, "we have just released version 8 so you had better start buying all your stuff again but make it quick because we are already working on version 9 and 10 which will, of course, be totally incompatible with all earlier versions.

For me, Dawn has become not just another figure but a way of life, at least as far as my art in concerned.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.