Quote - my thoughts exactly 99 euros now and who knows how much later? how can they expect a group of customers who are largly hobbiests to commit 99euros  when they dont know the final price,i like many poser users am of a limited budget and am very wary of spending money on the beta when the total cost could end up being anything out of reach of my kind. if they want us to go for their software tell us whilst the beta is out how much it will be on final release.or is that just too logical?

I think the term "beta" has a different meaning there. As far as i can remember the beta started somewhere in 2010. Since then the requirements for the hardware as well as the pricing have changed multiple times, the company was sold to another owner, etc. With this in mind, they probably simply cannot make any price commitment, because they do not know themselves what they will have in 2015, what the Euro will be worth then, and what  kind of graphics cards the users will have when the final is released (if a final is released). So you should just base your decision on what you will get now, not what a final version would cost at some unknown point of time in the future. Think of it as buying a finished software, accidently called "Octane-Beta" like the "Shure Beta-58" (there is no "Shure Final-58" either and probably never will be).