Afrodite-Ohki posted at 10:50AM Wed, 18 September 2019 - #4362396

Because the program needs to change some things at base-level, and for that an update isn't enough. Remember that the very registration server is changing, and the old one will stop working - Rendo isn't to blame for this, SM is the one that instated the phone-home system for Poser 11.

The installer will ask you first if you want to uninstall the previous one, but if you refuse it will just shut down. Your old Poser 11 will stop working anyway because it won't be able to phone home - the "number" has changed, so to say.

OK, can someone clarify this for me, since everybody keeps mentioning it? I don't recall my Poser ever doing this "phone home" thing, unless it's so far in the background that I just don't notice it. In fact, I'm pretty sure I've used it a few times when my DSL was down, and I had no internet connection.