It's safe to assume the high end market was targeted to pay for this release. The customer base I've seen is mostly hobbyists. They want new content. They like new features in Poser for the content in scenes. Quite a few of them can't afford the programs they built the plug-ins for in this version. A limited number of plugins at that.

It's funny you should bring up budget Gareee. I would imagine that building and maintaining  plugins or bridges for these high end apps is complicated and expensive. It uses lots of man hours to develope and fine tune. As time goes by the high end apps will update also and of course Poser plugins will need to upgrade with them. Now here is the question I want to ask you Gareee. What kind of impact do you think that is going to have on development of  Poser itself in the future if Poser Pro fails?  We already see it literally wiped out the content in the package. With no new content the merchants will only have Daz content to build for and texture for income along with other independent builders stuff. If Daz builds a rigging plugin and catches up a little with Poser's bells and whistles while Poser pursues the complicated high end market with no new content of their own plus Daz becomes less Poser compatible over time, what's to keep hobbyists using Poser? With no new content features of their own to build for. What future improvements need to be made that revolve around the Poser communities  income which centers around content? Without their own new content Poser is dead for lack of need to ever change or adapt. Really you exposed the problem. Budget. You have enough to do just so much. If you pursue the high end market trade then you might not have enough money left for content development which ends up employing the Poser community. Without the Poser community working, Poser won't sell. No new content. No new features to build content for texture or sell. They find a meal ticket elsewhere.

dogor,