ssgbryan posted at 3:20AM Mon, 18 January 2016 - #4249818

Part of it is due to how people here use Poser. There is no point in upgrading if you don't actually use anything that has been added to Poser since the release of Poser 4. And I think that is why many are attracted to DS, it has a Poser 4 feature set with a PBR bolted on.

LOL you know that's not even true. People are switching because it's not holding on to anything of poser and its advanced features: UDIM, Dual Quaterion, auto fit, auto morph generation, Iray the ease of use in making and using content and most of all figures that spur the most arguments in the forums because they surpass the low quality stuff being offered for a premium.

Poser may be dying in the 'Rosity forums, but let's not kid ourselves - most people (and vendors) here are still stuck in October 2007. I think that is the reason 'Rosity has gone from 4500 - 6000 members online at any one time to not cracking 3000 since the last site "redesign". If you want to see a good example of that - dig through the forum archives - the level of vitriol is the same as today, but back then there was a lot more information available.

So the user base is splintered across versions because not everyone has actually upgraded. So if those people haven't upgraded because they're not finding the value, whose fault is that?

Timberwolf earlier mentioned how SM was surveying the forum members over at RDNA. Well, those forums ARE the official SM Poser forums. In addition, that community is more open to letting go of a Poser 4 workflow, IMO - I have no idea where you are getting that "backwards compatibility is most important" nonsense from. Figures that take advantage of modern versions of Poser are sold there - not here. In addition to that, those new figures aren't savaged in the forums like they are here. Nor do they allow vendors to disrupt threads the way the mods do here.

Actually it was a big argument here and there about not wanting to let go of their vast library of content. So if they won't let go of the content, it's hard to let go of the workflow either. And that spills into how the weight mapping and superfly was bolted on to keep compatibility rather than move forward and replace it with actual industry standard features.

Tools to extend Poser capabilities are sold over there, not here. Subforums to leverage features in Poser are there, not here. If you are using Dawn as your primary female mesh - why spend a single minute here? Your time would be better spent at Hivewire. SM figures, 3rd party figures, or Poser itself - The RDNA forums are where the action is.

Those things are barely selling, even there it's Genesis 3 and V4. A few are making some pauline items, but it will probably fail like antonia, michelle and dawn because they are so flawed and no customer ends up buying them.