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Why does everybody care about the release date anyway? What do you do differently?

For my part, I don't care.
I'll probably miss it by several weeks just like I have every other Poser release.
And I'm getting out of Poser mode for now in a day or two, having used it for what I need and am moving on, so I'll likely not even notice when it's released.

It's software. Better yet, it's Poser - every new version seems to create more aggravation than solve old problems, so a release date is more to be dreaded than anxiously anticipated. ;-)