I've never heard this much whining and boo-hooing over a software title before.

sure, the decent thing to do would be to offer a little more of a discount to those who paid full price for p5 and p6. but as it is, everyone is still getting a discount, unless you've never owned a valid copy of poser before. be glad they're giving that, as they don't have to, and few titles I've ever seen do. Those that do are exactly that - an upgrade. You don't get to keep the previous version of the program on your pc - the upgrade updates all your current files.

example.
i played ultima online for over 5 years and saw several expansions/upgrades to the game in that time. (At least 5 that I can remember). I paid $30 for my first copy, (on sale) and less than six months later another expansion was released. There was no discount for current customers. If I wanted the expansion when it was released I was going to pay $40, like everybody else. All the expansions included the entire game, not just the expansion. Which meant that for new players, they got the previous version of the game along with the new expansion. Should EA Games have refunded their long-time player base the $30 to $40 they paid back when the previous game was new? Not to mention the monthly $10 it cost every month just to play the game.

NO. Why would they?

And every expansion after that ran the same way. New players got the advantage of not having to have paid $40 every time a new version came out, while long-time vet players had to fork out the cash if they wanted to keep playing.

Same for WoW. They're about to release the first expansion to warcraft. It's 40 bucks. It includes the same game that's currently being played, along with the expansion. I've played it for two years (off and on). Should I get a discount on the new expansion?

NO.

Stop whining. And be glad that you don't have to pay the full $250, unless you want the program in hard copy and orginal packaging.

And what is with ALL the criticising of a program that NOBODY has seen the first features of? Where is the logic in that??

"Uli Klumpp, Director of Product Development at e frontier and long-time Poser Product Manager said, “Compared to all previous versions, this release is the most significant one to date. Poser 7 will have a powerful combination of new content, new features and improvements that modernizes and invigorates its foundation. We have also added many features that our long time customers have requested. The bottom line is that both the Poser professional and the casual enthusiast will have more robust and more powerful 3D figure design and animation software. Poser 7 will make their creative workflow more enjoyable.”

Listing the bonus content first doesn't mean it's the best feature, or the #1 feature of p7. All it means is that it's the first new feature they've listed. And since the content specified in that feature is limited to pre-order sales only, it makes sense that they would list it first. Had they waited to announce it in week 7 of the promo, you'd all be complaining that it's unfair because it's LE content and there wasn't enough time to pre-order it.

Because it doesn't matter what a company does, SOMEBODY is ALWAYS going to find SOMETHING to complain about.

My suggestion is, if you really feel like you've been shafted by poser, you always have D|S to use instead ;)

~E.D.