About 3 years ago DAZ was taken over by some online avatar company I had never heard of. It's been in a steep downward spiral ever since. Development has come to a stand still; even on Studio. Genesis was released then aparently abandoned. Carrara development seems to be little more then a badly ported autofit, compatabilty with a 3 year old buggy figure, and adding DRM as a nessity to use ether. That sort of out ways the good tweaks to existing features we did get. Don't get me wrong, C8.5 isn't all bad, but there just isn't enouogh good for it to have any value to me. Really, the only part of C8.5 I am missing is soft cloth for draping. And after having used the beta for 2 years that should tell you something.

Lets face it, DAZ has become little more then a content brokering company. I'm sure they are making a tidy little profit off the backs of the PAs, and developmently costs would cut in to that profit. So development has pretty well been dropped.