I'm a bit suspicious....why aren't the improvements more widely advertised?  They're offering 2 free figures, free membership etc with the $79 which doesn't  entice me because new figures usually means purchasing new mats and clothes etc.  Posers upgrade notification unfortunately came after finding out that  the price for Xtivity ..a flash authoring program I bought last year for $200US has been dropped to $79 bucks..  Luckily I took advantage of a special discount and didn't pay the full amount of $399.00..but they used to have a forum (since deleted) and lots of people did pay $399 so I'm not as badly off as some.  I'm off to lick  my wounds until I feel like forking out any more money for software :-/