Ardiva... same here, all I really want is a fairly priced upgrade path to 5.5 and nothing else attached to it. I strongly suspect that there are many many others that will be looking forward to a 5.5 upgrade. When they find out that there will be no option other than to buy 5.5 at full price there will be a great wailing and gnashing of teeth. Some like you and I will stay at version 5, some will bitterly buy 5.5 and some will move on to other programs. I really believe that folks need to understand that the potential is here to loose your upgrade path because you did not buy the DAZ version of BRYCE. As DAZ moves forward in their development of BRYCE it could very well work out that COREL BRYCE 5 users will not be able to use anything that is designed for DAZ BRYCE 5.5 and beyond. I still remember what CL did with their move from POSER 4 to POSER 5. Folks really need to think about this and they certaintly should contact DAZ and express their concerns. DAZ does listen to their customers.