AmbientShade posted at 8:04PM Mon, 22 July 2019 - #4357780

Then why is it that still so many of those daz users are begging for Genesis in Poser? Can't go a week without hearing about how great G is but they hate the DS interface and miss Poser.

Where are you seeing these threads? How many are there? How many folks who use DS exclusively are saying it? Give me solid estimates, not assertion or anecdotes, please - seriously. Oh, and most importantly, how many are new users who got Poser, then decided they preferred it but are bound by the Genesis figure?

Forget the comparisons or which app reigns supreme - the reply to those questions, if they're backed with solid data, are important answers that the Rendo/Poser team will need - and they need solid data so they can make an intelligent decision or three from it. Do you have that data? I'm honestly interested if you do, but I bet Rendo would be even more interested.

Provide a quality set of figures with good content and update some of the content creation tools (which would not take a whole lot, contrary to popular belief) and you might be surprised just how much of that 'lost demographic' find their way back. LaFemme has already been pulling some of them, maybe not permanently or in large droves but they're taking notice.

Maybe. I honestly do not know these days, but a quick look at Alexa just today tells a pretty grim tale if you're simply trying to chase newbies/hobbyists, or if you think they should be trying to recapture any serious chunk of users who have left...how long ago?

Renderosity might be able to pull it off, but they have to think it through, and come up with a solid set of strategies to attract and keep these users.

Are you willing to stake your future income and career on your particular assertions? Renderosity will have to stake their futures on whatever they decide - one way or the other. I don;t expect them to take advice from me either -at least not without researching the facts - a lot.

Show me a laptop that can run a 32-core threadripper without melting down and I'll believe desktops are dying. Until then it's just a bunch of bs. Enjoy your underpowered paperweight that doesn't offend the wifey's safe space, I'll stick with an actual PC with real power.

I honestly don't care. Sure, your computer has a bigger wang or whatever and it makes you an uber-he-man - cool! Now square that with the computing usage patterns of the world at large, and more importantly, where the world at large is trending... and then try to tell us all how your big, bad machinery is going to sell more copies of Poser.

The point: You can wave your 1,500W multi-CPU water-cooled ePeen all day long, but that won't sell copies of Poser to a world going mobile, now will it? Seriously - we're not dong-measuring here, but looking at the market at large. There are laptops that are sufficient to run Poser 11 and/or DS all day long, and they're not even top-end. The point wasn't to bruise your feelings about whatever form factor is more powerful, but to point out that not even a majority of your potential market is going to have a desktop these days, and definitely won't in 5-10 years. Hell, the majority of the human population doesn't even have much more than a phone, but tailoring to that extreme market is silly, and for obvious reasons. However, accommodating the laptop-owning market is obviously not, and is already more than possible today, as long as they keep that in mind.