wolf359 posted at 7:17AM Tue, 05 May 2020 - #4388185

The ability to load a 13 year old legacy CR2 base figure into the latest version of Daz studio, and having it supported by the PA store content and programs features & addons are two entirely different things and you know it.

In what way is that "planned obsolescence", given that anybody, anywhere, can create content for any of it, and it'll run on the software? Anybody can make content for it, and sell that content anywhere (see also, well, here.)

If You *lack any content creation skills, what do you actually do with a Vicky 2 figure in Daz studio 4.12???

You mean besides download and use the zillions of freebies still out there for it? Or hey, let's just go buy Vicky 1/2 stuff directly from them

Besides, the question could apply to anything - if you lack the content creation skills, what do you actually do with Posette on Poser $latest, or iClone $latest, or Blender $latest...?

With those vestigial figures, You wont have access to HD moprhs JCMs, the latest lipsynch options,

Nope, but that obsolescence was not planned; the figures just never had 'em. Nothing is stopping you from adding those abilities yourself, however, since a huge chunk of the goodies.features you listed were originally third-party plugins, and some are just a matter of merchant/user desire+ability.. ;)

There is a reason that Daz will not allow distribution of older versions of their Free Daz studio software.?

Yeah, lots of 'em - liability, support, bandwidth, OS compatibilities (e.g. MacOS' shift to 64-bit-only), etc. There's a reason why you can't buy a legit copy of Windows XP Pro from Microsoft, either, so...

They want you using the Latest version of Genesis and re-purchasing the "new" content and addons to keep that hamster wheel spinning.?

...and yet I can still buy Vicky 1 stuff ...and it still works on the latest iterations of DS and Poser. - shrug -

But IMHO ,one cannot keep blasting Smith Micro for letting poser stagnate for years while insisting on still desparately clinging to 15 year Old "golden age" content that is not even compatible with the new features that would enable the software to compete with Daz studio or Iclone.?

I can agree to the premise, depending on context. But then, even old mesh can be rehabilitated to an extent, and a lot of folks want to get a bit more mileage out of what they originally bought long ago, and I can't fault 'em for that.