Well I was somehow expecting some extra functionality out of it, and I won't knock at least the max plugin (as long as you have nothing more recent than 32 bit max 9 with SR2), and the LightWave (32 bit) plugin.

Which reminds me, I'd have figured the "pro" standard was up to 64 bit by now - forgot to mention that earlier.

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You forgot to mention one thought.... "it's obvious that poser pro is not geared towards me and I should have known better and spent my money on something else or buy the base version instead" You really missed that one.

On the contrary, though. I'm not a "pro", but according to what I read, the "pro" version was to be not only geared towards me, but to well exceed my needs. Unless, somehow, pros tend to like slow, buggy software. That could be, but I'm kinda doubting it.
Well, maybe I read it wrong, but I thought the 64 bit support meant true multithreading, including an update to the OpenGL preview. No such luck, as it seems. I exportt a COLLADA file, and I get a mesh in LightWave which not only has no UV's, but has only one surface.

As far as, "some who don't even use all the Pro extra's" is concerned, well, I can't speak for evryone, but I WANTED to. Not only that, but I still think it wouldn't have been too much to ask that they fix some of the decidedly NON-pro "features" Poser already had.
The 64 bit b/g rendering is cool, and it works fine, but that's a minor detail. Maybe the network rendering is the real pro feature, too, but still it has this black hole RAM thing, in addition to being very finicky with graphics cards.

Honestly, though, I don't think they did much at all to it since Poser 7. It's obvious the "fusion" plugins were developed by e fronteir, and I  imagine most of what became "pro" was already created before the purchase by SM.

So, we have another chapter in the continuing saga that is Poser, but the story remains the same - someone buys it, claims to be doing big things with it, then unloads it to the next sucker in line.

And then, they unload it on suckers like me. ;-)