Soooo...., if I'm right PoserPro comes with a base and a pro version, so you'll have a PoserPro-base and a PoserPro-pro. Besides from being the stupidest thing I heard in weeks I'm afraid this will be the end of Poser as we  know it. If you look at the comparison-chart, there won't be much advantage for the regular Poser-users. This is an "upgrade" to make Poser more digestible for the Big-application users like 3D-max, MAYA and Cinema4D. The only "significantly" lower price, I'm willing to pay for this upgrade, does have to be lower than the upgrade-price for Poser-7. As far I'm considered the 64bit-render support had to be in release 7 instead of  the many useless horn and bells, like talkdesigner or animation layers which nobody uses (at least I don't see anybody use it), because there is no support for DAZ-models.  I agree that multiple-processor support was a big step forward, but when you implement that, 64-support isn't the next step, but has to be done in the same time. No, E-frontier waits untill the next "upgrade" and charges double the price for a new poser-version, which is only meant for major application-users and not for the common Poser-user.
I hope this upgrade is only a side-step, and we'll have Poser 8 within some reasonable time and for a reasonable price. But for now I'm not upgrading to Poser-pro.

Best regards,

Bopperthijs

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