Quote - Daz is under new management and is not necessarily going to adhere to previous schedules and strategies. They're certainly not adhering to promises made by previous management to the customer base. They're doing what they think they must do for the good of the company and it's affiliated vendors, to heck with what the previous management did or said . . .

They're ignoring requests for bug fixes in DS4? Well, maybe they're saving those fixes and other improvements for the next, paid version.

Yep, they're definitely under new management (and some posts which are still filtering into the public light.)   They have definitely wanted to increase the base for DS4 and hence sell more DS4 content.   They get a 50% cut of the affiliated vendors, so that will work for them.  I do see a lot of the same 'ol DAZ though . . . shifting price policies & packages, excessive marketing hype, uneven forum moderation (for example, they're now hosting a thread on SM's latest earnings to promote the FUD that Poser is in financial trouble again), and the usual lack of attention to product quality and documentation.   I say this as one of the early adopters of Genesis and among the early independent developers to release morphs for the Genesis product.

Their new CEO comes from and Art & Craft store background, not a software background (as far as his CV on LinkedIn would indicate) so I don't know what to make of the new moves.   

I would welcome an announcement of a DS5 strategy.  I had orginally banked on a DS4 strategy, which told me I could develop for Genesis, and then through a magic "CR2 Exporter" my customers could just "dial up" my figure and load to use in Poser 9/PP2012.   To date, that has remained unfullfilled and left Genesis developers without a clean Poser strategy; and if I read the posts by the product managers at both DAZ and SM correctly, it will continue to be unfullfilled.  I had asked their team to comment on this, instead I got a list of what SM has to do to make their product work in Poser.  Maybe DS5 will have the promised Poser bridge?  Somehow I doubt it.  :lol:

-K

 

(P.S. To be clear, I'm not criticizing your thesis--DAZ's new management may have a good plan and I'm not seeing it.   I'm probably just suffering from "broken trust" syndrome when it comes to DAZ announcements these days.  ;)  )