Okay. So first of all, Wolf, you don't know what people are spending or not spending. I've observed the exit of some historically spendy regulars for various reasons over the last few months. I know they spent because over time, they've talked about what they've purchased and how >much they've spent. I have no reason to think they're >lying.

And neither of use have any way of knowing who is spending what so any assumption that Daz is somehow in trouble is ,based on a a few highly vocal forum regulars expressing outrage, is a foolish assumption as they dont represent an accurate sampling of the total Daz content buying population.

Second of all, you have no idea how Poser is doing under >Bondware's ownership. Neither do I. As I haven't bought >or used recent Poser,

I have a pretty good idea of how much Daz genesis female products I see in the Renderosity store verses Lefemme or the others.

Those products produce revenue that supports the continued existence of poser.

In the same way, the reallusion products look interesting, >but I have not spent money on them, either. So I have no >opinion.

There are only two reason you have not spent any money on Reallusion products.

The entry cost is too high (certainly understandable in these times)

Or you can afford them but your cost benefit analysis has determined that the reallusion products do not offer you anything that will be useful in your current artistic endeavors (stills) compared to whatever software you already own(Daz studio or Blender)

consumers make such rational decisions every day ..nothing complicated here.

Now..Ask yourself honestly WHY you have not seen fit to purchase any recent version of poser or invest in the Poser native eco system of figures & content.

But I do detect you looking down on DS users again, as >if you're somehow better. It's apparently a habit with you. >I've seen it many times now.

My opinion of DS user is based on years of pattern recognition&observation if my opinion hurts your feelings, please put me on ignore and get on with your life.

Finally, your conclusion about Daz company is based on >nothing.

My conclusions about Daz's postion in its market space is based on comparing its feature set& cost of entry to it next nearest competitors.

On balance Daz has never broken out if its little sandbox since genesis one.

I move in proffessional 3D/CG circles/communities and this is a fact. you not see any mention of the bridge/export plugins in any of the major online communitys outside of the Daz site.

Daz still makes great looking figures and content that only realizes it full potential inside Daz studio with Iray and that is fine as their core user base has made it clear that they are going to continue to buy... so good for Daz!!!

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