I don't think the price would be much difference. Let's be honest, what we've seen for new stuff in Poser 7 and Poser 8 isn't really worth the upgrade price at all. For $129 one would expect a bit more, perhaps quite a bit more. I've got a number of applications that are in the same price league then Poser is and comparing new features on all of them, Poser doesn't even offer 25% of what the others offer. I expected a lot more, when going from Poser 4 or 5 it will be worth upgrading, you get something good for your money. But not really when going from  P7 to P8.

When looking at D/S and all it offers for free and what you get when do go up one number, I wonder how SM still gets away with offering so little in a new version. One would thing they would be awake by now, but it appears they're still sleeping. I really wonder how the odds will be when we have D/S 4 and Poser 8. DAZ seems to go a bit faster then SM and offers a good selection of additional features with each major (and at times even minor) release. How long will it take DAZ to catch up or even overtake? If Poser 9 will be another one of these mediocre releases (and the odds are that it will be) then the choice will be a lot harder then it is now. Poser still has the edge for me, but if SM  isn't going to act soon, they will loose the edge.

I love Poser, but I'm fed up with mediocre new versions. We, as users, deserve more for what they're asking us to pay.

Quote - I got 1.7Gb of new content besides the 1 gb+ of legacy. Did you download the new content?

I got that also and I'm still wondering why in the world this download was even 1.7Gb. There's hardly anything in it. I'm even wondering why I even bothered to download it at all. I've browsed through the content and 90% of it will be added to all the other content that came with previous versions of Poser...... it has been gathering dust on my hard drive for years now. Will the time ever come that something really worthwhile will be released with a new Poser version? It's getting worse with each new version, especially the new figures.

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Food for thought.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZw0dfLmLk