I actually had no interest in Poser at the time I first aquired it, but I purchased a Metacreations bundle when they launched Bryce3D (Bryce 3), and Poser 3 was one of the products in the bundle with Bryce (them both being under Metacreations at the time).

And from the first time I used Poser, I've always liked it.  But I think it was only the fact that I could make pictures with naked women in it, that 'hooked' me in to it.  I don't mean porn, I just mean that I could make images with a naked woman in it, make her look how I want, posed however I wanted her to be posed.  To this day, that's what Poser still is to me, really, if I'm honest about it.

After I'd been using it a few years, I had the idea to make a business out of creating a figure for it, and belive it or not, what DAZ have done with Genesis is pretty much what I had in mind - just done differently.  I saw the figures that were available back then and thought to myself, you know what would really sell, is a figure that could be any age and sex you want it, all in the same figure, something that could morph from young to old, and even male to female (by giving each version the same universal mesh).  I started developing it (I even had a name ready to call the mesh) but gave-up for various reasons, and I never could find a program that I could get along with enough to model the mesh in anyway, and now that i know a little more about the way morphs work, it would never have worked anyway.

After that idea died, I got obsessed (very obsessed) with the idea of creating a super-lifelike virtual babe (but strictly for my own use this time).  Because back then, Athena street stores used to sell posters, and I thought to myself, if I were to really put the effort in and create a convincing babe, I could keep her to myself and use her exclusively to create my own posters and maybe scrape a living from the royalties or whatever, creating the sort of thing Athena sold in their steet stores (nicely framed posters of babes and stuff).  Today, reality bites and the web is bursting at the seams with this stuff, and any thought of making a living from it has gone right out of the window for me.  But I still like to play around with Poser, I'll always love Poser as long as they don't destroy the interface, and I still do have that obsession to try and do things convincingly if I'm in the mood for it.

So, long live Poser, just sort the freaking bugs out, please :-)