hornet3d posted at 3:01AM Sat, 23 April 2016 - #4266683

It never ceases to amaze me that we continue to judge if a piece of software is floundering or not based upon how much money vendors can make from it. I do no use DS but I don't hate it or the way the market has gone. You can't blame the vendors for a perceived floundering of Poser because a lot of Poser users moved to Genesis, which works better in DS, that is the way it was designed. That included the Posers users who just wanted the latest and greatest and those who saw real benefit in Genesis, the vendors just followed the buyers.

Poser has always concentrated on the program and not so much the content, the inclusion of the Wardrobe Wizard and then the fitting room decreased the reliance on third Party content. I still use Poser, I still buy for Poser but I use Dawn and mainly buy dynamic clothing that will work on Dawn and V4 and any other figure really. I have no need to buy specific V4 clothing anymore.

To me the success of a piece of software is more based around if it does what I want it to do and do I enjoy using it. I don't really base it's success on how much vendors can make out of me.

Actually the misunderstanding comes from mistaking the market for the software. The software can still sell, but the content market based on it could dry up. If you make, modify or use things to work in that software it's not going to affect you as much. But the content is only going to do as much as the underlying software will allow.

But still, this has absolutely nothing with the topic at hand, time to let this go.