wolf359 posted at 3:15PM Sun, 26 November 2017 - #4318687

I have stated before - I have lots of V4 outfits that have never been worn by V4 in my stories. My bloated V4 clothing runtimes are available for any figure I care to use. Hair is decoupled from figures thanks to Netherworks' Hair Control System. I harvest V4/M4 textures via Texture Transformer and Texture Converter (both excellent investments) for use with other meshes.">>snip<<

Hmm...... here is the problem (from a marketing& businees survival perspective) Poser loyalists are still using V4 and her content as their standard. poser will not survive unless there is growth its user base from NEW users.That is the reality of market growth.

New users want to see NEW stuff.

No new user gets excited about an Iphone because it is promoted as being able to run some 10 year old app from IOS 1.5 with some "extra steps" involved

No new user gets excited about an android phone because it still supports some 10 year old app from android 3.1 with some "extra steps" involved.

No video gamer gets excited about a game platform because technically you can get it run/play "Duke Nukem"with some "extra steps" involved.

Sure it remains possible for us DS users to still use V4 's catalogue on the genesis figures via the autofit technology in DS, but spend some time in the Daz forums and it becomes obvious that content buyers have long since moved on to the new stuff being sold.

And V4 Clothing is made even less relevant by the new built in hybrid Dforce cloth engine in DS that makes any CONFORMER dynamic.

Put the $349 VS $0 USD price disparity aside for a moment.

And try to convince a new user to learn those clever 8 step hacks to use older V4 clothing from the crumbling caves of the past.

Or give them the option of DS ,the lates genesis figures and automatic use of the new and shiny content being sold in the Daz store daily and it is a no brainer which platform the new user is going to choose.

I object ,I object .to the $0,000,000.00 Cause after you go shopping it's a long long very long ways from $0,000,000.00 ;)

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