Quote - Well, to be fair, not all vendors are using a version of Poser that even has GC, so they can't update (though the shiny new upgrade price of Poser might persuade some of them to get in the game -- one hopes). Others have so many products that it would take them a year to update all the shaders, and I'm guessing that they're just trying to avoid getting a barrage of emails from panicky customers telling them their stuff looks horrible.

But in an ideal world, true, they would not be giving that advice. :) And hopefully it goes the way of the Dodo soon. Edit: Because you might as well return your Poser 10 or PP 2014 and get a $10 version of Poser 7 on Amazon than follow that advice. ;)

Those vendors are part of the problem.  Everyday more of us are using later versions of Poser than they are.

They shouldn't be worried about panicky customers - they should be worried about angry customers giving 2 star reviews from people who expect up-to-date content setup.

I expect content built for Poser 9+ figures to take full advantage of the capabilities of Poser 9+, and my reviews of content I buy for those products reflect that.