I agree with the comments from philebus. I've only been using Poser for about 3 years, but by the end of last year I was spending 3-400UKP (4-500USD) a month on content. My runtimes are now over 250GB. I retired at Christmas so now have less money to spend on Poser but still buy a reasonable amount. However, for me to buy anything for V4, it either has to be very cheap (such as the recent get 90% off 4 items sale from DAZ) or something original (such as the Red Army uniform from Cybertenko) as I have all the clothing or textures I'm ever likely to use for V4.

I realise that vendors have to put bread on the table, but perhaps this had led to short termism. The only native Poser figure to anywhere near match V4 in terms of content is Dawn, and this is because Hivewire has continued supporting her, I'm always hopeful whenever a new Poser figure comes out that it will be supported by a range of new and exciting products, but unfortunately this just doesn't happen. (It was a great shame that Sixus stopped supporting Scarlet, and Johnathon never appeared.)

We now have project-e and Bella has just been released. So far the only clothing on sale for PE seem to be dynamics items from Karanta, and as I tend to produce renders with large number of figures I rarely use dynamic clothing. I can only speak for myself, but I'm much more likely to buy stuff for PE, Bella, Pauline, Miki4 than V4.

I mean this as a suggestion to vendors, rather than a criticism, get away from V4 and help produce a market for one of the other figures by producing content that makes people want to use the new figures.