you also would not say that Blender or iclone is a >competitor . So I do not believe that Daz would start >to clean out there store from >Poser >assets.

First.. Blender is a full 3DCC/animation/VFX suite Like Autodesk Maya or Max and Daz studio is just a freeware, loss leader toy with a high quality,well integrated brute, force path tracer to render still images of their excellent Genesis figures and the content sold in thier store and here at Renderosity.

All of the gensis content sold here in the RMP is revenue for Bondware and FREE advertisement for the Genesis figures.

simple, honest commerce, both parties benefit

If you want to know who Daz considers their competition, you only need to look at what is allowed to be discussed on the official Daz forums.

There is a Poser forum on the Daz site where you can Discuss poser 12's new features and post pictures of lefemme or renders with the new superfly with your fast RTX cards etc.

There are Forums for Autodesk Maya ,Max,Maxon C4D,and the two major game engines Unreal 4 & Unity.

This is because Daz has released their own free export plugins to send Daz figures & Content to those apps& game engines in a ( very likely futile) effort to get the pro users of those apps& game engines to buy Daz content.

Reallusion Iclone pro & Character creator 3 are a strictly forbidden subject on the Daz forums and any post/thread you attempt to make discussing the features of Reallusion Iclone Pro & Character creator 3 will be promptly eradicated by the Daz mods.

Fair enough, their forums ..their rules.?

However it is quite clear which 3D figure platform Daz would prefer did not exist, and it is not Poser

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