![]() Basically, every decision SMS made towards Poser was pushing its own community away from it. This, in addition to the lack of contents Poser was suffering from, has pushed many from the community to jump fences to DAZ Studio, which was not only free, but had no lack of contents. They removed essential Poser functionality, making it exclusive to a more expensive “Pro” version, which didn’t make sense in this essentially hobbyist, low budget community. ![]() That was alienating Poser’s own community. They originally sold it for almost the price of a Maxon Cinema4D license, which was simply absurd. They advertised Poser at professional 3D magazines as “The ultimate character creation and animation software”, which always makes me giggle when I think of it. ![]() It became apparent that SMS didn’t understand what Poser was, who used it, or the market it belonged to. It wasn’t just that, but Poser was being marketed to the wrong public, and for the wrong price. SMS has promptly ignored the store (they already had one), which eventually died of neglect over time. However, unlike other software they sold, Poser came with it’s own culture, long-lasting community, market, and even its own store (Content Paradise). To put things in perspective, SMS was a software retail company, so when they acquired Poser 7 from eFrontier, all they wanted was to sell it as another of their wide range of unrelated software they have in their store. On one hand, they have greatly contributed to the development and modernization of Poser, but on the other, every business decision they made was burying Poser further down the pipe. Let me just say that I wasn’t impressed or even surprised that SMS went down financially, based on the business decisions I have seen they taking towards Poser over the years. A lot has happened since then, like the fall of Smith Micro Software Incorporated (SMSI), which for a while, took Poser down with them. Yes, it’s been a while since I’ve last reviewed Poser or DAZ Studio here.
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