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Subject: Poser Artist from Curious Labs

Curious_Labs opened this issue on Aug 29, 2003 ยท 96 posts


who3d posted Thu, 04 September 2003 at 8:42 PM

Katherine:- Nice to see you haven't been scared off. There's a rather nasty feeling among some of our members after the Q&A session that Poser 5 is entering it's "stable" period soon (by which I mean no more updates rather than any ability to perform on any particular machine) and that Poser 6 development will concentrate not so much on continuing the evolution of the product as on delivering a subset of what was actually promised for Poser 5. It's possible to get the impresison that the Poser 6 "target specification" is currently viewed as being "Poser 5 - but reliable". Given that even with SR3 (or SR4, when it comes) we apparently already have somewhat less than was promised by Curious Labs members in the past (the new animals comes to mind here as an ideal example, though "new code built from the ground up" can't be ignored) the thought of paying to upgrade to Poser 6 "just to get what we've already paid for" has not endeared CL to some P5 owners. By some I include myself, as when I saw this implication CL immediately lost considerable ground with me. While it's now clear that, whatever Curious Labs's original intentions with Poser 5, the feature set isn't going to be expanded during version 5 to include any promises made and taken by customers in good faith, I hope that CL have/will manage to see considerable room for feature expansion in Poser 6. Just releasing "a largely fixed Poser 5" and asking for money could cause more anger than you'd imagine!