All the last posts by anyone associated with SM and poser pro were all indeed acknowledgements that work was progressing well. What mor edo you need beyond that, Tasha?

The zbrush developement teams says NOTHING at all.. but then new plugins just appear magically.

The newtek developement teams says NOTHING.. and then suddenly there a new lightwave beta signup program.

The Max and Adobe Photoshop developement teams also say NOTHING, and then suddenly there are new versions released.

It's VERY common in utility developement companies to keep everything they can under wraps, and then burst new features and releases to make as much noise as possible for release.

Since the poser forum communities are SO negative and so many people revel in creating conflict, I don't blame them for avoiding them like the plague.

Daz's developement team also tried to avoid the forums, for the same reasons.

IMHO developement teams have plenty on their hands and I personally want them spending more time adding new features and fixing things, then doing public PR.

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.