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But, somehow the people owning Poser seem to get away with releasing inbetween upgrades for full upgrade prices. Imo they should scrap all this additional content (especially their new figures) and focus on additional features instead.

You got that right! Who do they think they are, Autodesk? ;-)

You should see the features we got in LightWave, between version 9.0 and 9.6, two and a half years later. Every upgrade from 9.0 to 9.6 was absolutely free and the stuff they added along the way is just amazing. I mean, they cut the render speed in about half, added fur and hair, several new nodes, and all kinds of other features, plus bug fixes. In Poser Land, that would have been 2 or 3 paid versions later...

Poser pro, IMO, is the only real useful upgrade they've had yet in all of Poser history, and Poser 8 just doesn't seem to be anything particularly special. Aside from the improved CPU usage, there's not a single thing new about it that was on my list. I couldn't care less about the new library, and I had no problems with or complaints about the interface.