Poser as a means to an end, is limited. But then curious labs has made pro pack. Now you can easily port poser stuff into LW and others for doing all of the things poser lacks. Plus when you consider, that if you want to do serious character work you would be porting the obj files into modeling programs to make adjustments and modifications anyway. Dollar for Dollar Poser is as good a value as Bryce. As for business, why would curious labs want to reinvent the wheel and compete head to head with the likes of Alias Wavefront, Discreet, NewTek and a host of others. In professional production you would turn to those software anyway and import and export to and from programs like poser, (Character Studio, Messiah etc) anyway. Poser fills a niche and does so very well. If I can take a poser character pull it into lightwave, modify the mesh then bone it and animate it, I save the work of creating the entire model from scratch, This in it's self is a huge money and time saver. Poser also allows for the fast and easy testing of motions and character attributes before commiting the time in LW or other programs to finalize a animation or character. In the business time is a valuable commodity. Any tool that can shve the time spent on a project is worth every penny. In this aspect alone poser is a worthwhile product.