wolf359 posted at 8:34PM Sat, 24 December 2016 - #4293477

"Poser is not the property of SM really, its that of the stupid motherf**kers like me that have invested time in it. SM are a bunch of dumb idiots that don't know the first thing about marketing......I'm kind of hoping the cute little white girl figure will wake up the dinosaur that is Smith Micro (along with some Japanese and African options of course), or at least the company that will buy Poser from SM."

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No matter how much end users want to believe in a commercial product. in the end Corporate bean counters will decide the fate of those products,

yes.

Pursue your creative objectives Dont try to change the minds of people who run corporations its not worth the stress...Life is too short

sort of agreed. they do have a role to play in my future however, so I do try to get them to improve.

Also stop trying to please your online "Fans" at your personal expense....

Disagreed. They made me. I owe them... in as far as I am able of course.

Seriously!! A major Daz merchant just had a stroke and DIED recently

Not cool for that person. I hope he/she had a good life.

only four or five posts into the "Condolence thread" someone expressed concern about how long that DEAD Daz merchant's products would still be available.

Those people should burn in hell.

and Please don't bash SM about their marketing.SM's poser marketing in particular has been brilliant and exceedingly efficient. It is based on the Empirical Data gathered from the result of previous releases.

that might be the problem. We live in the facebook era, personal, online... trumpian. Things are much more actual and in our face. SM's marketing is super crap, I am not kidding, its oldschool. The way they presented Pauline was dreadful, and they're appeal in a very commercial predictable way, not one-on-one. Even the movie Wolf of Wall Street could have taught them a lesson. No sir, we disagree here, they's bad.

Release native figures that few people actually consider useful.

Poser's fanbase are not predominantly forensic detectives... ahem...

Tack on a third party crippled fork of an open source PBR with virtually ZERO documentation except that which resided in the head of a tempermental Forum GURU who appears to be on sabbatical

Cycles? I learn something new everyday. I cannot get the hang of cycles... but that's mostly because I'm too busy doing other sh*t.

...Privilege of being "earlier adopters" rewarded with nice red badges to add to their online avatars. Within six months lower the price to $49 USD and watch the loyalist ooz with glee over what a bargain they are getting. Microsoft are rank Amateurs compared to Smith Micro.

Politics that may be, and in as much as I might not even disagree with you, Poser still works bro. That's it for me. I honenstly couldn't give a fat flying f*ck about the loyalists and all that stuff, for me, its an application that ANNOYINGLY successfully straddles the line between useful and horrible and allows me to ultimately do the work I want to do. Trust me, if there's a better option that allows me to do everything I can do in Poser minus the bugs, I'll be the first in line...

... and no that is certainly NOT DS! I've tried since f**king 2012.

"The fool is not the one that does something foolish, but the one that does nothing at all."