I think Daz may have just made a truely bizarre mistake when they annouced (last year was it?) they were no longer going to be giving the program away for free. Looks like they had no idea that a large part of their user base are hobbyists who just aren't going to pay out the comparatively large amount they were asking. Well, either that or they really have lost it somewhere....

I moved to Poser when 2012 came out as I was totally floored by all of the stuff being shown off by the testers. OTOH the stuff Daz were showing off with ver4 and Genesis didn't interest me at all.

As an early adopter of Poser 2012 it's hard to say how I'd feel if SM suddenly announced it was free for a month.... but I have a feeling I'd be quite happy to just grab the extra licence in case I ever need it. :) Poser's not perfect and there's more than a few things that drive me mental about it, but it suits me so much better than D|S ever did and if I get stuck I can look stuff up in the manual. Wow.

I did try the time limited demo of Bryce7 a while back as I used to use Bryce before I moved to Vue, but I seem to remember it wasn't too stable at the time.