Definition of Tribe: a group of persons having a common character, occupation, or interest

Definition of Tribal: of, relating to, or characteristic of a tribe

So basically describing the Poser community as tribal is saying that it is made up of various splinter groups who share common or similar beliefs and interests under the umbrella of the larger group of the greater "community". The thing that makes the Poser community different is that there are so many individual factions and that at times they will tend to act quite obviously in their own interest and over the best interests of the Poser community as a whole. To the point of angry confrontations, denigration of others work and the portrayal of other aspects of the community as being direct enemies open for scorn or attack. Such is the artificial construct that Daz 3D and Poser are warring factions in some kind of war. A belief that I believe does nothing but reinforces a rift in the community, which would be better served by collaboration and professional respect amongst market competitors that at the end of the day each contribute to the growth of a niche market sector. Using the word "war" is extremely inciteful, all's fair in love and war. Describing Daz 3D as a market competitor would be more accurate IMO, and a market competitor more prominently competing with the Content market sites such as this one, way before they indirectly compete with SM's Poser.

If you don't want to see the evidence that the creation of Genesis was an intent from DAz3d to get all the Poser people to their software, DAz Studio, well, you see, but I think it was evident.

I see the creation of the Genesis figure from Daz as a company putting innovation and creativity to a forefront to create a market leading figure series. Even to the point of breaking the restraints of a binding Platform to deliver said innovation. Poser is a 3rd party Software platform that could of easily of chosen to add support for the Genesis figure range to their own platform in collaboration with Daz 3D. And even so,I think you may find that every version of Genesis, has been ported to Smith Micro's Poser. Most recently by members of the community here with Genesis 3. The question is why would a platform maker choose not to include support for the market leading figure developer? I believe the official answer is that "they do not wish to be tied to a Daz 3D development cycle". Which is a reasonable position to take for a company, but also declares that Smith Micro has no actual interest in the content market nor in 3rd party content developers for their platform, they're a Platform developer, which is their primary focus. 3rd party content developers must work within the boundaries that SM define or choose to step outside them at their own risk. It's not an act of war to do so but a brave expansion of the boundaries of the market niche, which despite what some portray is a good thing for the community as a whole. A richer and more colourful tapestry full of variation, innovation and creativity. It's not "war", it's known as business or even healthy competition.

RDNA had been making a transition to more and more Daz Studio content in their own store which was doing well before the announced merge, which progressed to Syyd releasing some products at the Daz 3D store to test the waters. After that she made the decision that her and the RDNA team's future was best served with the formation of a partnership with Daz 3D . It wasn't an aggressive takeover aimed at annihilating Poser support as it seems many would like to portray. And in fact time will tell If that is the arguments being presented are true. As you would see vendors being told not to submit any products but ones that support DS and you could expect to see none of the Poser Content from RDNA to be made available from the Daz Store. Neither of these are true at this point. So please adh3d can you backup your claims with anything other than personal intuition or opinion?

Over the last month Daz 3D has released a number of Poser only products in the store. Why would a business who has declared war on Poser be offering content that exclusively supports said platform?