It has some bad bugs. Every Poser I've ever encountered had them. Smith Micro seems to be working very hard to resolve them. And they're working with the community on this, which is something that e-frontier and Curious Labs didn't seem to do. They even closed their own support forums, which at first seemed like a negative thing but now that they are interacting with the community in forums that they don't control seems good.

I initially had a very negative opinion when Smith Micro bought Poser. In the past they seemed to buy old software and then keep trying to sell the same old thing with no improvements. I've likened Smith Micro to the software equivalent of an elephants' graveyard, where old programs go to die.

I bought it and I'm happy. (Or I would be if my 1TB hard drive hadn't died! Maybe I should blame Poser 8 :))