I bought 8.5 and still use 8.1

main reason is I still felt like I was beta testing 8.5 - mainly because of what the other user's feedback was. I cant afford to have my work screwed up

second reason - daz moved things in Carrara and made it a pita to find - so stuffed up my work flow. If it's not broken dont fix it - there's the idea that people have that they have to change things so they can say " look, I was here, I existed, see, I fixed something that wasnt broken and I;m worth more money"

third reason 8.1 works fine for me - I dont use genesis

4th reason _ I love buying new Daz stuff - most of the new stuff being released is genesis and up related - so I am saving a stack of money