Well I would be firmly in the 'concentrate on software' camp.  My reasons, easy,  I purchased the last couple of upgrades for the features, such as Sub Surface Scattering, lighting improvements, a better morph tool, the fitting room and so many more. I never use the Poser figures and, other than primiatives, I rarely use any of the supplied content.  It does not bother me as there are so many other places I can buy content. 

 

I am not bothered that I am still using V4 and that it comes from Daz, although I now longer shop there.  I do use the V4WM version as it does give me something that the non weightmapped version does not. 

If you are into nudes and/or Photo Realistic renders I can understand why you might want a better figure but whether SM should spend time building it is another question.  Unless it was a major step forward I would not pay for the next upgrade if that was the main thrust. 

I often see Poser compared with other 3D programs where you pay a vast amount more which seems so unfair. If I use a car as a runabout that is good on petrol, passes it yearly check, rarely breaksdown and is easy to run why would I change.  Why would I expect my runabout to out accelerate a sports car when I did not pay a sports car price.  Why would I complain that Foda of Skord should build a faster car when what I have suits me and I know the latest and greatest engine would just take their product out of the price range of many.

Many people have a different view and I respect that but why do so many berate SM because they have a veiw also and stick to it.  Why do so many say SM have to do this or they are lost, I would think keeping your present users while making your product within financial reach of many is a fair business stratagy.  There are others that may be equally valid but to predict the doom of a product or company because they do not have the business model you prefer seems a little unfair.

 

 

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.