Quote - ..."if it didn't cost at least $1000, then it's garbage".  As has already been mentioned -- both ZBrush and Vue aren't super-expensive apps: but they are both excellent apps.

I'm not saying that this reflects your attitude -- I don't really know you.  But the mere fact that something costs less doesn't automatically mean that it's worthless.  Or even that it's necessarily "less than".

I was using "cheap" in the positive sense - and pointing out that EF is positioning "Pro" to go to a not-cheap model.  From reading the press release, I didn't get the impression the price is going to go DOWN, and the a la carte model they're switching to, seeing how successful it is for other companies like Maxon and Autodesk - I think it is very likely they're moving away from cheap.  How much money are you willing to pay for the same basic render capabilities that you already own?

Quote - Well.......I'm not going to make that assumption.  E-frontier has presumably been working on this new version of Poser for some time now.  They've still managed to turn out some SR's for P7 in the meantime.  We might see more of them.  To me, this fact is evidence that P7 users have most definitely not been "abandoned".

 

Look, you can't have it both ways - either: 
a) Pro will be a cool, valuable app packed with robust new function, in which case, unless they immediately hire a bunch of people and instantly get them trained or did such on the QT - the existing EF staff will be busy writing, testing, debugging, re-writing, re-testing, documenting, packaging,  marketing, shipping, and supporting this robust new function
b) Pro will be very much like Poser 7 with little new function or increased robust-ness except the few things mentioned in the press release (content export of unknown accuracy, networking the aforementioned poor render engine, some memory management improvement under 64-bit).

Which product do you think will be dealt with "in spare time" - the copies of P7 they've already got the money for, or the new product that hasn't paid for itself yet?  Sane business practices dictate the latter.  We'll see how it turns out, but I find very little to be optimistic about in this announcement.

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