Quote - *People seem to feel they are entitled to more than they are willing to legitimately pay for.
*I don't think so..... I totally agree with Penguinisto. I can upgrade soon to Carrara 6 for much less then I can upgrade to for Poser..... Yet it looks like I'm going to get all the features P7 offers and most of the features P7 pro offers and even more. Judging from the price EF is charging me for the P7 upgdate, I'm hardly get worth what I pay for. Others give me more and charge less.

The only problem I have is that I like Poser the best and I'll stick to it, but it sure isn't the best value for money anymore, not by far.

Well, since we don't know what the upgrade price is for P7 owners who want to get P7Pro, no one can say anything about 'fairness' on upgrade pricing. And there is one huge point being blythely ignored in the DAZ apps bonanza; they are not making their money on that code. It's content that powers the DAZ machine.....and with the current MCF in copyright laws, all it will take is one significant goof and DS, Bryce, Hex, Cararra, Mimic, etc, will vanish into the maw of litigation. None of those apps are selling well enough to fund their own survival; DAZ would be crowing if they were. It's the naked Vickeys and Mikeys that rescued Mimic and Bryce from oblivion. Since Hex and Cararra were bought from the creating company, they had to have been in financial trouble. Poser is making it from the application; which is impressive in the current environment. And folks need to keep in mind that the few features they mention for 7Pro may not be all there is. One of the things in that survey was weightmapping....which would go a long way towards remedying the issues with the current rigging system. And it is the kind of thing that could be retrofitted to all the previous models ever made, if someone so decided. I'll wait and see what the finished product is like before I spaz too badly one way or the other....but so far it looks promising (remember, the next logical step is bumping the modules up to 64 bits...which would make both cloth and hair a bit more robust if they benefited from the code update).