You were also fortunate to have people like LesBently and Diogenes in your corner IIRC. And a tremendous amount of support from the community. The landscape is quite different now... or least it seems like it to me.

Yes, that was a pretty exciting and fascinating time. I bet I could learn (or re-learn) a lot by reading this whole enormous thread once again from the start.

Since you mentioned a feature that DAZ has but Poser lacks, I'm wondering what the incentives are these days for new users to buy Poser rather than trying their luck with DAZ Studio. I would assume Studio eventually caught up in terms of features, but maybe there are still some that are unique to Poser. Or is it ease-of-use? Word of mouth? Renderosity pushing it?

-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.