wolf359 posted at 8:45AM Sat, 24 April 2021 - #4417556

Like it or not selling Genesis content is still lucrative as it has a very loyal following.

Any attempt to force vendors to support other figures is a fools gambit, as hivewire discovered when they required and sellers of Daz genesis content to make a matching product for the hivewire natives.

Where is the hivewire store today???

Bondware should sell whatever vendors choose to make

IMHO poser is a commercial dead end for content creators....dead... end!!

And frankly even Daz's days may be numbered if Epic Games provides a really easy way to create custom third party content for those incredible Metahumans

Reallusion has wisely hedged their bets.

Their online ActorCore Character motion store is better than Mixamo, as it delivers quality motion capture in the native format of the major 3DCC's (Maya ,Blender, C4D)-no Daz studio support.

Reallusion Already has a beta connector app for NVIDIA's Realtime ,RTX based "Omniverse"system that supports the major 3DCC's (Maya, Blender ,C4D)-no Daz studio support. And the $199 CC3 pipeline app can convert any genesis figure ,clothing & hair (prior to 8.1),to a native Iclone look alike avatar

We even have a free Autoset up tool for Blender that easily converts our native CC3 Avatar textures to blender nodes upon import via FBX

The 3D Character market is moving forward at rapid pace and is very competitive with many NEW options beyond the old Daz studio or poser paradigm.

I think you're misreading the market, Wolf. Besides, Hivewire hasn't gone anywhere. Chris is still there making figures, as is Alisa, Paul and Ken. Sadly, all we've lost is Lisa, and that wasn't due to any market forces.

Chris has stated many times that the store was closed to concentrate on the figures which, after ten years, tells you that they're very viable. The store wasn't bought out, it closed. Besides, we know where your loyalties lie.