HKHan99 posted at 1:55PM Sat, 21 September 2019 - #4363151

I don't know how Hivewire works, is it pretty much a sales platform? In that case, I withdraw my remarks. My impression was that it was more like a business that creates content, from the way it has been presented in discussions here. I understand the challenges of small producers, but it would be nice for consumers if some of these issues were fixed in-house by whoever is building the original items- or folding them into the package they're selling. I can't complain too hard about some of the details here because Bondware upgraded me from Poser 11.1 standard to Poser Pro 11.2 free of charge, but the Poser 11.1 I bought was really a mess and a good example of what I'm complaining about. I appreciate Bondware trying to improve that situation, but I think they have a long way to go.

Okay that's... a lot of mix ups of different things.

-Hivewire 3d IS a content creator group AND a brokering/sales platform. Basically they create the base figures and some other products, and their site sells those and also offers a place for other vendors to sell their products there as well. So HW3d created Dawn, and Ken1171 is another content creator who made that fix.

-There's a problem with fixing things in-house after release - it can break previous content. When a third-party releases a fix, you're accepting that content (mostly in this case: clothing) may not come ready to work with the fix. And this isn't new at all, either - I remember that I had some five different products to fix various problems with V4, and there were dozens more available.

-None of this has much to do with Bondware - Poser has been in the hands of several different companies, and a lot of times each would simply add things to the previous Poser version, leaving everything working on top of an outdated, buggy core. For now, the only thing Bondware had the time to do was a patch to convert the license server to them and address a few bugs/problems they could tackle. We'll have to wait for what it's done for a possible future Poser 12 (not to be confused with Poser Pro 2012), but that's likely to take a couple of years to come around.

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