wolf359 posted at 8:38PM Mon, 04 May 2020 - #4388172

Of course ,Planned obsolesence is what Keeps the Daz content Hamster wheel spinning.?

If that were true, then hows come I can still use V4, A3, V2(!), M2, etc etc etc etc etc etc... and all their stuff.... in latest-greatest versions of Poser or DS?

Did you mean that DAZ no longer distributes Vicky 4 (like 14-15 years after it was first released), therefore "planned obsolescence"? Oh, wait - I just looked - you can still buy Victoria 4.2 as part of a massive starter kit in their store... like nearly 15 years after Vicky 4 first hit the virtual shelves.

So yeah, c'mon man... stop that.

First I agree completely that NONE of the Female figures from Antonia to PE and lefemme could compete with Daz V4 even without SASHA16, they all still Fail to compete IMHO

Kinda agree here, but only insofar as the figures' relative and perceived inflexibility (in appearance, not joints. Wanted to point that out.). Now if they could work the topology a bit (or if enough folks get real creative with ZBrush, etc), then we could see some improvement... and it may well get there, since LF just came out, relatively speaking.

Would I use any of 'em? Prolly not, since I have my investments (time, money, cursing, etc) elsewhere, and imports look like sheer drudgework (barring a porting-in of a Python version from, err, this geologic era ;) ), but the potential hasn't vanished entirely here, especially for the newer folks.

However If V4 is the pinnacle then yes, everyone could have stopped at around Poser pro 2014 (Where I Stopped& bailed)and live off of their 50+gig content hoards,and the trickle of new bits here & there, until Death

You could, but for how long? Unless you have Stage-4 something-bad, I doubt that even you could hold out until Death. I know I couldn't/wouldn't.

(PS: 50GB? Those are rookie numbers! You gotta pump those numbers up! )