I am more than happy with Poser and I have been having great fun for years.  When the next version of Poser comes out I will probably buy it but only if I think it is value for money and will increase my enjoyment of creating 3D renders.  So far I have decided to buy every Poser upgrade from Poser 5, when I first discovered it, to my present version Poser 2012. I even spent more on buliding a sysytem to run Poser 2012 in a reasonable manner.  Poser 2012 was worth every penny I spent in my book and I have enjoyed playing with weightmapping and SSS.  

I will buy new figures on the same basis, purchasing them only if they will improve my enjoyment of my hobby but no figure, from any company or vendor, has yet pulled me away from V4, although I am very greatful to the Poserplace team for the new V4WM.  

In the new Poser I would like to have some way of creating realistic models based on real life people without having to be a very skilled modeller, something that is probably unlikely but that will not stop me buying the new Poser if it is not included.  I did not know I wanted Sub Surface Scattering until I saw the renders that Bagginsbill uploaded to thread at RNDA.  I placed my pre-order on the basis of this alone although the other improvements have given me so much fun. 

I have no magic advice give SM on where they should go in the future and I suspect  that many of the soothsayers and doom merchants have any more valid suggessions than I do.  I also suspect that a few even have some hidden agenda or completely different motives to their posts. I like what SM has done so far with Poser and will keep spending wherever I can find improvements.  

If I can find nothing to justify spending my hard earned cash I won't spend but that won't stop me having fun with what I have working at the moment.     

Mind you that is my view and quite frankly the one benefit I do have is that, with my advanced years, I can pretty much ignore the doommongers because their view of the future, even if true, is unlikely to effect me that much.

 Happy rendering.

 

 

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.