My main concern over this is what will happen with all the extremely useful Poser tutorials, forums and scripts that are hosted there. Obviously these things will not be going to Daz - SM have already said they will be moving the forums, but not where they are going. And as external links aren't allowed here it's going to get difficult to track down a lot of useful stuff!

I'd also like to know what is happening about various vendors - some of whom I know moved there in the past after leaving Daz for various reasons. And I will be very sorry to see the Deep Freeze items go. So far as I know Daz doesn't keep items for older figures any more.

The comments I've seen on the Daz forums are excitement that 3rd party figures will be available for Genesis - presuming that's the direction the vendors want to go I guess - and that older items will be available in the PC club (except you have to pay for that don't you? The Deep Freeze stuff was just heavily discounted with no subscription payments to access it). Other than this I really can't see what's in this move for DazStudio users..... if they wanted the RDNA content couldn't they just buy it there? But anyway.

I don't see this as an exciting move for Poser users. Daz have said they are keeping the Poser content, but given their past record with Poser I don't see this lasting. There is also the problem of content for 3rd party figures (Dawn etc.) and whether all vendors want to sell at Daz. I don't see the older stuff lasting very long or being moved to anywhere else, I think it will just disappear.

It would be great if SM would take this opportunity to revamp Content Paradise and put back the forums, but I don't think they're too interested. It's a shame. Unlike apparently everyone else, I find CP easy to navigate and way easier to find items for a specific figure than just about any other site - including here where I've just about given up buying because the MP is such a mess. It's just the promos at CP are so feeble it's very hard to see what you are getting.

(Just to add - I mostly use Blender and Vue these days, but I do find Poser useful for a lot of things. I'm not going to stop using it anytime soon.)