This thread is supposed to be about the new render engine in Poser 11. Please keep it on topic and stop derailing into all these other aspects that have not been brought up by Smith-Micro yet, as it just creates a breeding ground for more arguing and hostility.

There is nothing to discuss. Nerd3d vanished, leaving the poor Teyon to not-respond (since he appears not to have been cleared to state even if he is alive or dead) and bagginsbill confirmed that at least currently only the previous FireFly nodes are avalable (therefore critically crippling what you can do with the renderer). Since it is August, people are on vacation so, even in the most optimistic hypothesis, nothing can come before early September. My take is that the users reactions have been quite different from what they were expecting (instead of kudos, well grounded critisms) and now they have to decide, discussing with the accounting people what to do: go ahead and disappoint a lot of people, with the easily foreseable effect on sales or bite the bullet, do more work, spend more money and take more time than what was budgeted for. If this is true, expect a long time (easily many months) before further communications.