Succumbing.

I'll kick myself later...

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would you be willing to fork up the extra bucks for a super Poser?

Is it financially smart for efrontier to invest money into that avenue?

How much more would you be willing to spend for the Dream Poser version

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No.
Yes.
It would have to meet my dreams -- not possible, since my dreams conflict with other peoples, as we'll see...

(But well phrased!)
Assuming it's simply a "better" poser -- maybe. Will depend on what it can do for me.
#4 - Cassette, that's just plain wicked :)

#5 - Take a look at their other products. Not a fantasy.
#7 - The original BASIC command used to print "hello world" that most folks learn in grade school, round these parts. More accurate: Show me a piece of software as comlicated as this one that doesn't have bugs...
#10 - Poser 6 does work. Your mileage will vary. (yeah, stole it from someone else, lol).
#11 - what "stuff"?

#12 - They did, to an extent. THat's the price for asking for more stuff. A lot of what was in P6 was asked for around the time they were getting ready to release P4. Indeed -- most of it was, including cloth and hair and materials. But with those extra capabilities comes greater complexity, and less simple enjoyment.
Perhaps a new, sub-version that uses wizards and something could come out down the road. Lord knows they've got the start to it...
#14 - Did you know that the memoery management in Poser 6 is almost the same as in Adobe Photoshop? And did ya know that PS uses extra tricks to get more out of it, essentially cheating the system?
All 64 bit systems currently available allow for 32 program operation. FIve years from now, this will likely be a different case.
#15 - Lose the "silly" interface and they'll lose more customers than they'll gain. Adapt the one they have, and they might get even more. Good thing it's not our choice or decision, huh? As far as making it compatible with V4 -- bah. Should work the other way around.

#16 - well said.

#19 -- Oddly enough, they think the same thing, from what I understand.

#20 - Excellent question. for my answer, see #1.

#21 - How about before they deal with hyperthreading, they wait and see what the result of the lawsuit twixt the largest two chipmakers is, since hyperthreading will only work for about half the market and is known to cause problems with the other half.

As for your other question -- Wizards. Option driven menus that totally reduce the fun of learning the damnable thing and increase the amount of sameness. That or release a "lite" version.

#22 - Note that regardless of owners, the same people have always worked on Poser. Always the same team -- some folks added, but the core team that is writing it is the same one that started it. Thank God for Uli.

Your ideal essentially makes it D|S -- which the presence of now has most likely assured it will never be

When I started a thread like this some time ago, I asked about "stepping" versions - that is, a Basic, advanced, and Pro step -- which is the norm for most of E-Frontier's particular products. THat's more likely, or at least so it seems to me.

#24 - E-frontier has publically stated several times they will not be developing tools for that themselves. If ya want it, go to the makers of the other programs and ask them to.

#30 - Every single one of those programs has bugs - the makers all have (or had) lists of them that were being or are beign worked on (a simple search in the MS KB will pull up about 300 bugs in Word alone). Some of them also have "vulnerabilities" and "exploits" that some idiot decided to go out and find for themselves just to say they can. As you noted in your response #32, however, youhave fewer problems with them. This is, as noted earlier, because, for the most part, you aren't pushing the program to its limits, as we are with poser on a constant and continual basis.

thou and I, my friend, can, in the most flunkey world, make, each of us, one non-flunkey, one hero, if we like: that will be two heroes to begin with. (Carlyle)