Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Is Poser dying?

Robert_Ripley opened this issue on Nov 02, 2016 ยท 293 posts


qaz posted Fri, 11 November 2016 at 10:00 PM

At present many more people use Daz Studio than Poser. It's free. What would you expect. If you look at the Reality PBR web site, you will see that there are 5 times as many posts from Studio users than Poser users, and that despite Daz Studio having an in built PBR app for quite some time now. Poser users have been content to use V4 and the huge legacy content designed for her. Daz users have had to buy genesis, then Genesis 2 then Genesis 3 and with each release a regurgitation of the same clothes. How many vendors produce Gen 2 products now ? Daz users probably end up paying more than Poser users. However, that doesn't matter. Sex sells, and V7 is far sexier than any Poser figure. Don't get me started about Pauline.

If you are going to attract new users to Poser, you need to offer at least the same access to state of the art figures.

Superfly is starting to get there, and if the next Poser can include shadow catching and instancing that will be attractive. However Poser cannot continue to rely on a 10 year old figure. It desperately needs a decent figure. SM seem completely incapable of producing one. Hopefully Erogenesis will finally complete his figure in 2017 and there will be a decent competitor to V7.