If it were a question of character meshes and clothing, where the two are now totally incompatible, I'd believe you. But when it comes down to some pretty simple tweaks to the textures for a prop with zero rigging? You're telling me that not one single merchant at DAZ, in the past four or five years, thought there was a market for any Poser materials for something that simple? Not one?

The whole supply-and-demand thing is a bit of a canard, sorry. It's like this place.The logic would seem to be: Men's stuff rarely sells because no one's interested in men's stuff because there isnt much out there because it doesnt sell — the prophesy can only self-fulfill so many times. If it's not out there, of course it isnt going to sell. But this is such a niche market with, according to one vendor who's been in this game for a really long time, a shrinking marketbase... so a vendor is going to say, "Well, I dont really need to make those additional sales that would come from providing this in both platforms"? Seriously?

Sorry, I really do not buy it. That makes zero business sense. Of course, we're also talking about a platform where backwards compatability has now also been brought into question — essentially telling the user base, "Sure, we know you dropped serious coin on all that stuff that worked in previous versions of Stdio, but, hey, we dont care! Start over, ya losers!", even as they wonder why people still make things for V4 and M4.

THere is just so much about this business model that boggles my mind.

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