I don't think Daz Studio is over-hyped actually. We are all aware of what the first release will be basically capable of. I think it will be superior to Poser 5 in the long run because Daz has much better business practices than CL. It seems obvious so far that Daz isn't rushing out the product, instead taking their time and working out the bugs. Plus they admit it will be a beta version, some of us paid a good deal of money to beta test P5 without knowing first. :) So I think people know it won't be a better program after that download is complete but should feel it will be eventuallly. Daz is the kind of company that will listen to it's customers and stick with this thing until it's right. It also has the blueprint of what not to do in this situation courtesy of CL. We'll all have to contribute to build Daz Studio. But I'd rather invest the time and money on something like this because CL isn't going to see another penny from me ever.