Well I am beginning to wonder if the whole thing is not a huge ball of smoke hiding something else again underneath it.
The 30k issue for one. If you are selling a product like Victoria, say 20,000 legal units (remember there are 100,000+ users here alone) that comes to around $1,000,000 and the 20,000 sales is probably very conservative. Add all the extras that Daz create, add their brokerage fees on Victoria related items and the figures will really mount up. Then there is mike, the kids etc. and of couse upgrades.
In that context 30k is small beer considering the work of calibrating that is supposedly involved. What would the enhanced useability be worth it in terms of further sales or an upgrade costing $10? Well if they only sold 3,000 Face-Room-compartable upgrades to the Victoria owning members they would cover their costs and probaly push many more Victoria sales as a result of her full face room/P5 comapatability.

Now it just so happens I am trying at this moment to make a hi-res version of Victoria (120,000 polys+) using a variety of subdivisional tools and programs. However, there is a major problem. Victoria has over 40 Polygons with more than 4 sides. all the subdivisional systems I am using cannot handle these, the result is holes in the mesh. Now I wonder if trying to calibrate Victoria's head to work in the face room was a non-runner in the first place because of these 4-sided+ polygons.

Here are the stats for her head
The Victoria head contains 14 4-sided+ polygons.
4x5 sided on the cheeks and beside the nose,
2x10 sided at the back of the teeth,
2x16 sided at the internal terminus of the nostrils,
4x18 sided at the back of the toung and inner mouth,
2x34 sided at the back of the eye sockets.

For the record I admire both Daz and CL and the work that they do and I am saddened by this row but the issues go to the heart of the Poser community so I feel I must say something about it.

BTW the above is just speculation on the whole smouldering bonfire!

Regards
STORM