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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