I don't see Poser dying anytime soon. There is some shift towards DAZ and the Genesis figures in the marketplaces, but please keep in mind that SM does not rely on content sales. Poser comes with a good array of stuff, the Fitting Room does allow to transfer clothing to the weight mapped figures pretty easy. A lot of Poser users still use V4 and the stuff they bought for it, the figure is still functional and has lots, lots of stuff. I don't see why I should change to DAZ or to Genesis.

We don't know how many Poser licences SM sells, thats the number which makes Poser's life and death. I like the new version a lot (probably I will like it even more after a couple of bugs are ironed out), I think a lot of people will change in time. I hope that more vendors will make stuff for the newer SM figures. But still I have more than enough stuff to play with, even if I would not make my own.

For a vendor, well, I don't know. As long as the majority of Poser users still use V4 as main figure it will be difficult to sell the Poser fraction a lot of new stuff, agreed. But I guess you don't mean that with "dying"?

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Sail out to sea and do new things.
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