My posts on Daz forums seldom go through lately, despite being honest and not inflammatory. But the mods really seem to be oversensitive these days. So I need to vent here... I've been using Daz about 10 years.

The way I see it and hear it, many of the long time users are saying: we all have enough content already, we are tired of rebuying the same stuff over and over with diminishing returns. We are sticking with G8/G8.1 as there is no real advantage to G9 (unless of course you cater to niche Futa or Transgender porn which I understand is very profitable, so if that's your thing more power to you, not judging you, we all need to make money). But for everyone else G9 sucks. It is impossible to make good looking men or women, mostly due to chest area problems, but also the joints suck, I have struggled with it for so long, I finally gave up and went back to G8F G8M where I can make any female or male that I envision in my head. I wasted way too much money on G9 and should have returned it all, but didn’t. I struggled for quite a few months, trying to give G9 a good go, buying the necessary tools, morphs and add-ons, all for naught.

And now with subscription based 2-tier Daz Studio (Premier or Free) that is also making people hesitant to buy-in, since the 2 tier system could at any time switch to a 1-tier Premier only system with the Free tier no longer upgraded, especially regarding all the plug-ins we all count on, many of whom have PAs who have moved on or in some cases passed away, RIP.

So if that happens and the majority long time users are stuck with Daz Studio 4.x and G8 in order to use all our existing plug-ins and scripts, then there will be no market for a Genesis 10. There will not be enough new money coming in to support it. Especially with the way AI is advancing. And also the newer user base seems to be coming mostly from overseas from China and India. That could be a good thing, since they are large markets BUT there is so much pirating of Daz assets now with these overseas sites, and no respect of copyrights at all. So many sites exist now where all the content is free, and it is not taken down EVER. In the past I would see these sites get pulled, but now they flagrantly stay up indefinitely. If I was a PA I would be sick of that and probably quit. Within days of new release, new content finds its way onto those pirate sites, I can only assume because it is out of the jurisdiction of any US authorities or maybe it is just not big enough to go after. Like who even goes after that? Interpol? I don’t know.

On top of all that is now the lack of incentive for artists to post their work on the major social media sites due AI using your content for AI training and remixing into their own content.  Why bother uploading if the algorithms will steal you content, then effectively shadowban your account, then remix the content and profit from it on promoted accounts? That is already happening, so a lot of artists are leaving social media. So then who is left? Strictly those of us who are poor, masochistic artists who simply want to create for the sake of creating, something drives us to create, but we will just use our old software and old assets until we croak. The future is indeed grim for Daz Studio.