The major advantage that Poser has is the pre-modeled, pre-rigged characters right out of the box. The thousands of aftermarket figures makes it that much more attractive. Then add the price that is being charged for the models, figures and textures and you can't match it. I have said it a million times and I'll say it again. This is comming from a Max user (me). "Owning Poser just for the content alone is worth it". Poser, Max and Reiss studio's plugin is what I use for all my projects. In the work I do I don't have the time to model objects and figures. I use Poser and the Poser plugin as a portal to bring high quality, low cost models into Max for my projects. Face it, you can't get really nice pre-made, pre-textured models for that kind of price anywhere. The first place I ALWAYS look for my objects is my Poser archive, then Daz, then Renderosity.