wolf359 posted at 2:26PM Mon, 26 April 2021 - #4417737

So why wasn't Poser in trouble back then? Answer, it >wasn't until DAZ figures stopped working natively in >Poser (i.e. Genesis), >that Studio had any actual inroads. >Even with Genesis, DAZ had to sabotage Poser once >again by dropping support for the >DSON Importer.

Daz chose to make Genesis 3 more "exotic" in its basic structure and removed the ability to export it as a poser CR2. IMHO opinion Genesis 2 was the best version of Genesis with the highest level of compatibility with external apps via basic FBX export.. but its all water under the bridge now.

"Sabotage" is bit melodramatic ..yes??

No, I don't think so.

Did bondware "Sabotage" Maxon C4D or Autodesk Max when they dropped the "Poser fusion" plugins??

Could be. I don't know their reasons. Truth, I don't know DAZ's reasons either, but I rather doubt "market forces" was behind it.

The obvious lesson is to NEVER let someone else's external tech become the single point of failure for your business model.

On this we agree.