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3Advanced and it's successors, 4 basic (which will no longer be free after the intro offer expires)

---You wont have to suddenly pay for it to keep using it. If you have it, its yours including any of the following free updates. Only new adopters will have to pay for it once ithe intro pricing expires.  And it will only expire once we have finished the version that was always meant to be free. As of right now the plan remains to keep a free version indefinately.

4A and 4Pro have broken that nice mould. Heck, I rarely if ever use many of the "built in" features of 3A as I only do still pics and my system cannot handle the excess memory load some of the built in features like UberEnvironment and the HSS impose.

As I mentioned over in the Daz forums, I agree that Genesis is a major stride forward not just because of the improved joint bending and weight mapping but because it also can combine character morphs in a way the Figure Mixer in 3.x couldn't, and do it so more efficiently.  Given time and practise, I feel almost anything could be possible with it, which for me, included developing characters for an SF story in graphic novel format which has been shelved for years. However that is all moot as the technical stakes have been raised beyond the limit of my means.

...this is the "thank you" I get for all the support I have given Daz3D over the last four years, not only with my hard earned cash, but discussion on other forums and in person with others.

---I dont really know what I can say. Software advances and requires more and more powerful computers to run it.  It really isnt that we dont want you as a customer or want to write you off... but this isnt a situation that is unique to us. Backward compatibility of Operating systems are a good example. when Lion came out earlier this year it discontinued a lot of compatibility... even for those with perfectly capable computers. I wish all software could work forever on every machine but that wont happen, the cost to maintain that infrastructure would be enormously prohibitive. if we stopped making use of advancing technology to enable lesser host machines, not only would that be illogical, but we would likely be branded as out of date or told to get with the times. There would be just as many angry from the other side. We want you as a customer, but the minimum requirements arent personal, they just are what they are.

...oh and I don't do computer games as I'd rather be spending my time (and money) doing something more productive and meaningful, like 3D CG.

---I hear ya. With the exception of infinity blade and angry birds, I dont have time for games. I havent played my precious rock band in ages.