Quote - So, they're going to tell us one new thing per week until release?  I didn't catch that they were scheduling it that way.

 

It said "in the coming weeks" , rather than "one a week".  I still have my emails from the P6 release, and they did it over about 4 weeks (having a few "reasons" per email).  And, for that release, the content was the last thing revealed..

Maybe people had complained that content was the last reason to upgrade to Poser6, so this time they made it first to disappoint a different third of their users?  (With a remaining third left waiting to be disappointed when new content is one of the middle reasons to upgrade to Poser8, of course.)

Doesn't bother me at all!  ;)  Newtek does the same thing with Lightwave. I've upgraded to LW through each upgrade and the same with Poser since version One. It's good to know that if I actually DO end up skipping an upgrade I won't have to pay a penalty when I go to upgrade to the next version.

Someone already mentioned here, but most here don't buy the upgrade in hopes of getting the next upgrade for less - they buy it because it (hopefully) has improved workflow and will make life easier for them. You have been able to use the software all this time while those using older versions have not had the new updates.

Quite a few software vendors actually DO charge more if you are upgrading from an older version - it was one of the BIG reasons I decided NOT to upgrade to World Construction Set. Why should I pay more when I never got to use the improvements in the version above mine? Well, this is just my opinion, but 3D Nature lost a sale because it charges more for older upgrades.

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i know others wont agree with me but i'd love to see the grouping functions made better. a "hide selected group" button would make a vast difference to it. specially for doing between toe and finger joints and the eyeballs

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Quote - Quite a few software vendors actually DO charge more if you are upgrading from an older version - it was one of the BIG reasons I decided NOT to upgrade to World Construction Set. Why should I pay more when I never got to use the improvements in the version above mine? Well, this is just my opinion, but 3D Nature lost a sale because it charges more for older upgrades.

Well, presumably those improvements will carry over to all future versions, right?  For example, Poser 6 retains the firefly renderer from version 5.  So if you were upgrading to 6 from 4, why should you only pay for the features that were added to version 6 and not the ones added to version 5 that you never paid for?  I don't think the Poser 7 upgrade is unreasonably priced, but I expected at least a $30 difference between upgrading from 6 and upgrading from 5.

I still think blender has the best upgrade pricing. ;)

Quote - presumably those improvements will carry over to all future versions, right?  For example, Poser 6 retains the firefly renderer from version 5.  So if you were upgrading to 6 from 4, why should you only pay for the features that were added to version 6 and not the ones added to version 5 that you never paid for?  I don't think the Poser 7 upgrade is unreasonably priced, but I expected at least a $30 difference between upgrading from 6 and upgrading from 5. I still think blender has the best upgrade pricing. ;)

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Like I said...  " I never got to use the improvements in the version above mine."

If I decided to skip a version (for whatever reason) why should I pay for something I didn't get to use? I can see what you're saying about the technologies being carried over, but I would be paying for that next upgrade anyway. You got what you paid for and were able to use it while I was "stuck" using the older version. Imagine if your computer hardware had the same "upgrade policy?" In order for you to use that quad core Xeon you have to either have used all upgrades since day one (spending many thousands of $$) and pay $3.550.00 for this new PC....  OR pay $75,212.58 if you are now upgrading from a Pentium 100 with 16mb (yes, MB) of RAM. The fact is...  if you didn't upgrade every system throughout you didn't get the benfits of the better/faster systems. But if you want to upgrade now, you can - AND....   you don't have to pay for all of the previous upgrades!

Just a little perspective....

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