Mythocentric posted at 9:23AM Tue, 14 June 2016 - #4272403

If you are going to take a shot the usual advice is to take a deep breath and hold it before squeezing the trigger to ensure you don't go wide of the mark. Even then it's vital to make sure that you're aiming at the right target in the first place! In what way is SM responsible for Renderosity's failure to maintain the balance of products in it's marketplace? Vendors have been making products for Poser for a good number of years and still are. No complaint there. To claim that Poser content isn't up to snuff is frankly ridiculous and I can only assume that your view is that Poser users stick to SM's content and don't actually buy content and I am sure there are a number of vendors here at |Renderosity who would happily put you through the wringer for dismissing their products with such disparaging bias.

Rendo is not capable of dictating what the ratio of new products are because the vendors are not Rendo employees, they are independent contractors, and they are going to make what they think will give them a decent return on their time. Products geared toward Poser are not doing as well as ones geared towards DAZ, that was not the case in the past.

I think what is going on (and I can't prove it because the statistics do not appear to be available on the internet) is that new casual 3D program users are mostly heading to DAZ or Blender because they don't see any benefit to paying for Poser. The Poser community isn't growing, the DAZ community is. Sadly I cannot back that up with verifiable facts except on the Poser side: One only has to look at SM's figures (it's a public company) to see that their sales are way down all over the map (their main revenue does not come from Poser).

Sadly the Poser market seems to be contacting, and Rendo isn't going to be able to do a thing to change that. SM either from the looks of it.

Truespace anybody?