I guess a lot of people just aren't familiar with the depth of Poser.

I had started a 900 frame rendering on Poser 6 shortly before I got P7 and I was up to frame 400 when P7 arrived. I decided to restart that same rendering on P7 and I've noticed a serious speed boost, while being able to jack up the render quality a bit. THAT is worth the upgrade price. Extra bonus points for Firefly's ability to work as a separate process now too - that seems to improve stability a lot.

Multiple undo's - while a feature that should have been there a very long time ago, finally made it in. THAT is worth the upgrade price alone.

I haven't gotten into the animation layers yet, but if it works as I understand it should, that's a wonderful new feature.

Then there's that new morphing tool - I haven't used it much yet, but I'm seriously hoping that with enough experience with it, that tool will have a lot of power.

I've no idea how the Talk Designer works, but it's a new feature as well, and there's a bunch of stability improvements too - all for $130 (upgrade price). That's quite cheap for everything in the program. The new content is just the icing on the cake; I haven't used Sydney yet, but  Simon looks like he has a lot of potential, and the screenshots posted of face room work seem like the tool gives wonderful results.

Anyway, my point is that this software has a lot that justifies the upgrade. I thought P6 with the addition of video card support was a godsend (I started using Poser on version 5 which didn't perform very well at all IMO), but P7 with all the aforementioned stuff is pretty darn good too!

Use the tool, get familiar with it before dissing it; your post almost seems to have the same tone as those who like to say that there's been nothing new in Photoshop since version 5. I guess those people have no need for type design options, do not appreciate the perspective tool's time saving options, don't care for the improvement in vector handling capabilities, etc etc. They probably just check the filters and make their decision based on that. Sad.

Whoah, sorry for the long post. Guess I got on a rant myself heh.