Afrodite-Ohki posted at 4:05PM Wed, 17 July 2019 - #4357244

How many of those times the owners of Poser were a marketplace for products for Poser that has been going for years and years? Oh, right.

Tell you what -- let's hop on over to Content Paradise and see how well that's working out. Oh, wait...

I imagine a hot mess with this. Imagine the amount of content buyers going confused because a product can't possibly support all the addons and versions of Poser that would come from that.

How many different versions of Linux are there? Marketplace seems capable of supporting more than one, while maintaining a surprising level of compatibility between them. And really -- how many different versions of Blender are in use at any one time? Really only one, unless for whatever reason someone chooses to use an older version. Still FOSS, and still community-based and -supported, tho', and successfully, too.

Blender is made for content creators. It requires someone who's tech-savvy. Poser's model is content-library based, meaning that the bulk of users will be people who only know how to load library content, maybe adjust the poses a bit.

And your point is... what??? How is that supposed to rule out a FOSS-based Poser? Poser would still be Poser, and it would still do the same things that everyone expects Poser to do. You're going to have to explain your point here. [EDIT] Keep in mind also that a FOSS-based version of Poser eliminates the price barrier to entry for new users, same as with DAZ Studio. And Poser definitely needs to grow its user base.

Well, I'll just be here glad that I haven't reached a point to be so pessimistic about everything. I highly doubt Renderosity would give us yet another disappointing version - specially seeing as they're composed of a bunch of people who does use Poser (or used to, at the very least).

Yeah, that's probably what the Smith Micro crew said in the beginning, as well.