"Everybody who contributes to the Poser galleries and Forum owns a version of Poser." Yes, but legitimately? Or... "How many would spend $3000 or so for a computer application? Look how active the Max and Maya galleries and boards are here." The foundation verson of Softimage XSI is only around $500. That's extremely competitive, and you get many features that were considered very high end only a few years ago, and by Poser's standards are still very high end. I think other software companies will soon follow suit, as the mid-range software like Carrara and others bring more of the same powerful features to the table. If they incorporated a Character tool that made it as simple as Poser to morph and pose pre-rigged figures, you bet they'd blow Poser away. I think Poser is going to be fighting an up-hill battle financially for a long time unless they change some things.

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Tools :  3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender v2.74

System: Pentium QuadCore i7, under Win 8, GeForce GTX 780 / 2GB GPU.