Quote - IMHO, I think that Poser 5 was the only release that really generated anything more than the usual grumbling. This was due to P5 being hyped beyond belief, only to fail miserably.

P6 actually behaves itself just fine (at least the Mac version does), and from most folks whom I consider credible, P7 is pretty solid as well, stability-wise.

I'd agree with you that P5 was by far and away the worst-received of all of the Poser releases out of the starting gate.  And it took a good while for the P5 problems to be rectified afterwards.  P6 -- I recall a fair amount of moaning over its initial release: most of the griping centering around the "Poser 6 is Poser 5.5; nothing more than what Poser 5 should have been; it's a service release for Poser 5" type of remarks.......but there was plenty of such grousing to be had.

Regarding Poser 7, I beg to differ.  Out of the box P7 wasn't very stable -- P7 had many inexplicable crashes to the desktop.  On the other hand, I have to give EF credit: they had fixed the problem within approx. 2-3 months of P7's initial release.  So that was good.  P7 pretty much took over after that: but you still saw lots of "I'll never buy P7!!!!!" types of forum comments at the time.  Still do occasionally.  And you also see the "Poser 7 is nothing but Poser 6.5" comments from time-to-time.

We've got a formula to follow, don't 'cha know?

Quote - I suspect that, aside from the bolt-ons, PoserPro (v 1.0?) is pretty much the same stable codebase as Poser 7 in most respects.

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Yep -- Poser Pro has likely benefited from Poser 7's SR's.  So Poser Pro gets the advantage of prior experience.

Heh -- so Poser Pro is Poser 7.5...........

From what I've seen in the forums thus far: Poser Pro is doing well overall.  As discussed throughout this thread: the main complaint seems to be about content.

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