I'd suggest not buying it at all. It just encourages DAZ's thinking that $285 is a "neglagble" upgrade fee. Or has everyone forgoten?

neglagble: so small or unimportant as to be not worth considering; insignificant.

Seems everyone is looking at that $85 and not the actual update cost. The actually update price is $285, everyone has been blinded by this discount and that discount. Do you all honestly think $285 is a fair price for a .5 update when the actual full price of C7pro to C8 pro was only $225.

And I agree, the V5/M5 probundles just don't cut it for me. G1 has been out for two years, the V5/M5 probundles have been out nearly as long. If I wanted them I would have gotten them by now. And every one knows, G1 is dead, 2 years with no update.

So what are we getting for that $285? A few nice tweaks, light icons that look like lights. A change up to the UI so it is more freindly for studio users. And the ability to use genesis; that is free in studio. Do you honestly think that is worth $285?

If C9 had improved atmospherics, full dymaic clothes, full soft body, and maybe a few dozen other tweaks and features it might be MIGHT BE worth a $285 upgrade.

But a .5 update, with a few tweaks, and giving us the privelage to throw a few hundered in to G1. Not hardly.

Bad polititions are put in office by good people that don't vote.

Bad business policys are kept in place by good people that buy anyway.

Before you blow me off, think about this. My most pesimistic assumtion at the cost of C8.5 was $225 LESS then the actual cost. I am the harbenger of gloom and doom, the pesimistic, cynical, critcal, conspericy theorest. And I was wrong on the optimistic side on this one, and by a big margen.

Seriouisly. If I had posted 3 months ago that the update cost for C8.5 would be $285, what would you have thought?