Male_M3dia posted at 8:38PM Sat, 23 April 2016 - #4266684

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.

Not really much for me to let go of, I don't care much, I enjoy my 3D art when I have time and I try to see what others are doing, anything else in the 3d world does little to excite me.

In your other post your referred to treating the store like a store, come in buy and leave, well it may work like that for you but for many it is a very difficult store to work with, too many adverts, search functions that are very poor compared with other stores. Further than that, this place used to have a thriving community and that is all but dead which is another reason for the change in relationship.

If it works for you, great, but clearly this thread and many others, are about the changing relationship between Rendo and it customers. Yes the thread has drifted but part of that is because some of the replies discussed where the customers have drifted to and why. Apart from that I think it is the norm for all threads to return to the perceived Daz - Poser war, well at least at Rendo it is.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.