Just been reading through a few similar threads and driven to throw in my 2 cents, given that, like many others, I’ve spent a fair sum over the years.

For me, the Poser interface has always been more Mac-like to use and so I preferred it to DS, plus DS hardly ran on the Macs I had, but Poser, in its current state is end-of-life (for me) because it is not written to work well on current Macs and their new OSs.

It is now slower than the hacked DS for Big Sur, version 4.15.0.30, not that DS doesn’t crash of course, but at the moment DS is just quicker to use and render quality seems sharper. Until I see an upgrade to P12 that shows equivalent speed improvements, I shall continue to use DS (ignoring the fact the Cloth Room is faster than dForce).

SSCHNEEW is right imho when he mutes Poser has had its day. 

I think it should be rewritten from the ground up to make use of Blender, Unreal, and external renderers like Radeon ProRender and Eevee. Why play catch-up when you can leap-frog?

You have great Artists and Content Creators, like Mech4D, making awesome stuff for Poser, but at the end of the day I think a lot of people would like to see Genesis usable in Poser for the simple reason it looks anatomically better, bends better, and there is a plethora of exceptional content.

A lot of programmes open up MS Word and Adobe PS files without seemingly breeching copyright issues so why can’t Poser use duf files? A revamped Poser should be able to bring in DS figures for use in Poser without Daz having to write a DSON like module. 

If you look at the Daz development path and its desire to integrate with the likes of Blender, Unreal and Unity… that would suggest the way to go for both Poser users and content creators. 

Greater flexibility and compatibility makes for a dynamic market, not isolationism… Make the Dawn figures useable in DS too… why should creators have to sell to a restricted market? 

Or… is it the end as some have said? La Femme was another patch…. Blackhearted’s own GND was better, again imho. 

A couple of renders below, both with one single spot light on a black background, one Poser, one DS. The DS took a third of the time to render on the CPU… Both are with textures as they come so they are both with bump map flaws… I won’t say which is which… though the clothing is a clue.