"Well, there are plenty of other things to go on to if you feel this unhappy towards Curious Labs. Poser is only a small spot in the overall 3D industry. ;)

Very true. It's not the product that pisses me off so much as CL's handling of it. They could have found many people happy to beta test every aspect of the program. It's almost as if they're going along, slowly developing new features, then someone says "WE NEED MONEY" so they announce P6 and then go to the developers and ask "What can you have ready in 2-3 weeks? Don't worry, it doesn't have to work immediately, just give us something that sounds fancy. Oh, the customers will pull out their credit cards as soon as we say 'P6,' we don't have to tell them what it is yet."

If they were smart, they'd hire someone like Geep and pay him big bucks to quality test and document the features. ;)"

Well, considering they had RDNA, SIXUS1 on board for that and it was more then your present exaggeration.

Bioware makes you go through their content updater in order to update Neverwinter Nights. If you want to join in forums with Ultima Online, You have to sign up with Stratics and they have Spyware that makes Mcafee Scream in agony... And then EA Games is notorious for buggy content as well as making you wait for patches and throwing in eye-candy just to appease people. Just see what their track record is with Ultima Online and the Sims.

What you are describing seems to be status quo for the software industry.

Message edited on: 04/07/2005 12:15