the real bottom line, is 3d utilities have dropped considerably in price over the years, however complexity, feature sets, and developement costs have gotten longer,and more expensive. Companies have to make money somehow, and supporting mulitple levels makes sense from a business model standpoint. *The poser marketplace wants everything free or dirt cheap, and that mentality is hurting content creators, AND major players like EF as well.

*Sorry, but I do tend to disagree with this. First of all the price drop was a necessity, most 3D applications were overpriced (some to this day still are), while others with some excellent features were free. There seems to be a better balance these days.

As for dirt cheap, no one is really hurting, especially not EF. All of this content sold by EF (and DAZ as well) has enabled them to take over a good number of applications and even complete companies. EF is making more then enough money, and being able to purchase applications and even completely buyout others proves that.

*Compare the cost of poser (heck even poser pro) with Modo, Zbrush, and Lightwave, and you suddenly see that Poser7 is probably underpriced, and that poser pro is probably priced properly.

You cannot compare Poser (not even Pro) with Modo, Zbrush or Lightwave. They're far beyond Poser, they're in a completely different segment. You should compare Poserr to other applications being able to do the same and then you'll quickly find out that even the regular version Poser is completely overpriced. If you want to compare Poser then compare it to it's peers and not with oranges.

Poser is overprices and always has been. As long as there are other applications that can do the same for much less or much more for the same price, it's overpriced.

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Food for thought.....
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