AmbientShade posted at 7:02PM Sun, 21 July 2019 - #4357658

...The goal here is to provide a vehicle that anyone can start using and get interested in the content that's available. Chances are they'll eventually decide to start making or modifying stuff and want to upgrade to the full premium version....

I can't stand predatory "Lite" versions of software packages. :) By "Predatory" I mean software who's only purpose is to show you how much you didn't get for the amount of money you spent. (Which is what a ton of top-end 3D software developers produce for "non-professional" licenses for their darn software, despite claims of "giving non-commercial users the tools they need without the price of full professional licensing..." etc.)

I am more in favor of "Free Trial Periods" of fully-functional software that may have some limitations. For instance, the old "Everything you render has a big watermark" and/or "Content can not be expanded" or resolution/etc limitations. The point being that, in my opinion, everything a developer puts out needs to be a top-grade product that is fully functional for its intended use, not a "Give us money for something that is not worth buying."

Ages ago, I bought a Photoshop product that acted as a sort of introduction to Photoshop. What the heck was that thing? You could do some editing, cleaning up, etc with it, but it wasn't "Photoshop Lite" really. It was more of a full-featured stand-alone product that pushed itself up to the full limits of a "Novice Image Manipulator" sort of thing. Great product, got my full money's worth out of it, it was great for what it said it was targeted to do on the box description, and inspired me to end up getting the full suite. (I even had Corel Draw 4/6 whatever, IIRC, and still got CS because of the quality of that psuedo "Lite" version.) Unless a sort of Intro package does that for Poser, there's no point in producing one. It'd be better to have a free limited trial version, IMO. (Provided Renderosity/Bondware have the expertise to do that.)