"so choices have to be made"

Yeah, more bikini sets and lingerie... wow. Some choice.

And no, dude, I'm not making it an "emotional issue". I"m looking at a business model where vendors are apparently saying, "Oh, I dont want the additional income!" As a publisher, I can just say, "Well, the paper version of this book is good enough!" and totally lose out on the sale that would come from the extra work needed to create a version for both the Nook and the Kindle. Yeah, it takes time to do it right — probably a day for a small book, as long as two weeks for a larger one — but it's worth having it out there. When a new version of Creative Suite comes out, yes, I have to weigh the pros and cons of upgrading, but I usually do, every other version, because sufficient tools have been introduced to make it worth the money. It's called a business expense, and it makes me a bit more versatile at what I can do for my clients. In that regard, I picked up Poser's latest pro version for ninety-nine bucks. That would be a pretty cheap business expense.

The backwards compatibility issue comes with files created in Studio 3 that can no longer be opened in 4.9 (or so I have read, please correct me if I"m in error on that). I dont know who made that bonehead decision, but there it is. And every time DAZ releases yet another hootchie-mama, I constantly read on these fora that nothing from previous hootchie-mamas will work on the new one. They seem to have corrected that, a bit, with this Gen 8 and Gen 2 talking to each other, but apparently 3 through 7 are SOL. I wonder how much people invested those. Sure, M3 stuff wont work on M4 stuff — but I have tools at my command that can bridge that gap and extend them even further. But DAZ reinvents its character tech every six months, so taking something you shelled out twenty bucks and some change for Genesis 4 will no longer work with Genesis 8 because the adaptors arent in place for it to do it properly.

So explain to me again what I dont "get" about this mysterious industry. Perhaps if we are all so enlightened, then the recurrence of threads like this, which appear to vex you so, will go away. But I'd also ask to remember: when DAZ first introduced Studio, it ran around to every fora out there and, with hug and a wide smile, said, "We wont abandon the Poser base that made us successful."

And yet they have done exactly that.

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