Male_M3dia posted at 10:29PM Sun, 08 April 2018 - #4327645

CybersoxXIII posted at 9:13AM Sat, 07 April 2018 - #4327590

The problem, unfortunately, is two-fold. First, there's the simple fact that a large portion of the Poser base allowed themselves to fall into the "good enough" syndrome. Poser with V4 generation product was good enough for them, they already had invested in the key V4 base products, so why invest heavily in new ones if what they had worked?

Not really a large portion. It was really a small number of unqualified, but vocal people that decided to speak for the masses, silencing and intimidating any dissension that allowed poorly made figures to be "good enough". Rather than getting vendors involved, they also spoke for vendors although they hadn't sold a single thing in their lives; which ended up with a figure that had issues, including mesh and weight map, that made it hard to morph and develop for.. and just throwing the result at the vendors then saying "here, now make stuff for it".. and those that did, didn't recoup their investments with flop products because the buying public could care less about any tribal loyalty to software so much that they'll actually pay hard earned money for something that in no way they would want to use. And that's really the heart of the matter: things only become popular when customers want to buy its content and vendors make money off of that content to continue. And this scenario happened several times, with the same exact result. After several of these failed releases, it's not hard to imagine why vendors and customers moved to other platforms.

The sad thing is that I couldn't figure out which company/group you were talking about from the text of your response, because parts of the scenario you sketched out pretty much fit all the various players at various points. SM, DAZ, the users, the vendors... there have been a lot of missteps by all involved in the last ten years, and in retrospect a lot of it turned out to be a "Blind Men describing the Elephant" situation where very few people had access to all of the same facts at the same time. ;/