PrecisionXXX posted at 10:13AM Fri, 27 November 2015 - #4241152

icprncss2 posted at 12:52AM Fri, 27 November 2015 - #4241143

Basically, Poser now phones home every 60 days if it has a dedicated connection. If it does not, it must contact the activation server at least once withing 180 days or Poser deactivates. There is a way to manually activate but it does require an internet connection to obtain the activation information. Sometime in the future, SMS is supposed to create a portal that will allow you to register your copy and make the manual activation permanent to avoid the deactivation. How this works or when it will be available is anyone's guess.

No software in either of my two serious computers "phones home", there is no connection to the net in either one. Not even a LAN card. Sounds to me like sometime in the future, before it will activate again, it's going to be saying it has to have my CC number. 'nuff said, I can stay with 2014. Installed this morning, uninstalled within an hour because of needing "activation". They have my name, address,phone number and more than likely, the SN recorded. They shouldn't need any more unless for the reason I stated, to sometime in the future pry more money out of me. Done with them now.

Doric

I am keeping an eye on it but I have become resigned to the fact that I will stick at Poser 2014. I did upgrade to Game Dev but that will have been my last upgrade I suspect. There was enough flack after the introduction of Game Dev for SM to know there were some that did not like the deactivation. They seem to think it is still a good idea when it is fairly clear it will not deter the pirates only some very loyal customers. Nice to think your loyalty has been so well rewarded, but then SM is not alone in this, sadly loyalty never seems to be rewarded these day.

 

 

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.