Quote - I will flip it around, within days of every Poser release starting with P7, I have been right there at the front of the line, with my wallet open, screaming gimmy, gimmy, I want to play now, not 4 months from now. Not wait for Amazon or some other website to run a special or run to the book store to grab a magazine with a CD-DVD attached.

 

I do the same with Poser, it comes down to trust and I feel I have had value for money on every version of Poser I have purchased.  When it came to 2012 SM went a step further by showing people what the new program could do before people put their hand in their pocket.  To me that shows they were confident that the Program could sell itself, lots of hard facts or, more accurately some stunning renders.  In my book that is more likely to be successful in than an over egged hype providing of course the software is good enough.  

With the pre-purchase voucher I paid around £90 (after conversion) for my copy of 2012 and if they give it away free now I would say good luck to those who got lucky.  I have had around 5 months to play with 2012 and learnt a lot and that alone is worth very penny I spent.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.