XENOPHONZ Wrote.  *Quote. "And BTW II -- if anyone wants to feed on speculation, then here's some Pure-T speculation:
 
I tend to suspect that e-frontier was primarily wanting to use Poser as a vehicle by which they could get Shade into the US market in a big way.  But what happened instead was that while Poser itself remained just as popular (& growing) as it had always been -- Shade just didn't take the US by storm.  If anything, Shade has remained as a virtual unknown in the 3D/CG world here in the US -- while Poser's own name recognition (good or bad) is unquestionable.  And so, disappointed, e-frontier decided to concentrate on their home market in Japan -- and sell Poser back to a US company."

*I like that one. Helps explain the lack of Shade 9 English. Ya, we'll go with that one.