Quote - If I want something badly enough and it is marketed well, I'm a sucker for that as much if not more than the next person. Which is at least one of the reasons I was in the pre-order queue waving my fist-full of dollars at SM.

Ditto. But then, I've always upgraded Poser, regardless.

Quote - I've grown cautious, now.

Ditto again.

I don't mind they put the programs out for free. Nice. I have "bought" them, although I don't plan on installing them. I already own Hexagon anyway, but now have a second licence. DS? The last version crapped out on my machine and I don't like the way they handle meta data. I don't want "dirty" software that leaves processes running when I don't use the proggy. I hate it that Photoshop does it.

The motive, I would think, is to boost content sales.
Not only is the economy slow, many people didn't take to Genesis quite the way Daz probably hoped. That's gotta impact sales quite a bit.

And how many of us Poser users are now shopping elsewhere? (I do.)

Silke