erogenesis posted at 7:26AM Fri, 20 September 2019 - #4362683

mr_phoenyxx posted at 5:53PM Thu, 19 September 2019 - #4362668

For the record I really do support Bondware/Rendo's upgrade, and if you can, definitely upgrade , but yes some of us might not be ready to upgrade just yet. An upgrade can change up a lot of things unexpectedly and is not recommended smack in the middle of a very intense project.

So for now I recommend you make your licenses permanent at SM while they're still up: https://pgportal.smithmicro.com/authentication/signin

Just fill in your license info and if you see this: Poser Pro License type: permanent License state: enabled then you're in business.

Then block Poser from accessing the internet using Advanced Firewall just to be sure. That way you can keep using Poser the way you wish until you're ready to upgrade to 11.2. Obviously, unblock Poser when you do this.

PS: if you by chance have to move your installation to another PC in the next month (you never know), if the SM server is still active you can unblock Poser, deactivate the license in Poser, and then install and activate on the other PC. Then go back to the pgportal and make permanent again. But that will only work if SM is still active.

I expect this should work... hopefully. This is the road I am taking for now, until I'm done with my comic end of this month / beginning of October.

If the other option was for Poser to completely disappear forever, then I am happy that someone purchased it instead of letting it die. I am just very gun shy at this point because of the many, many problems that have occurred with Poser over the last 5 to 10 years or more. I truly hope that Bondware and Poser are successful, but I won't believe it until I see it.

And I don't feel this is a good start. Maybe I just missed it. Maybe this has all been talked about for months. But to me, this all seems like it's coming totally out of the blue at the last minute. That doesn't bode well. I feel like another option besides forcing everyone to upgrade should have been possible. Giving us options and choices would have been the customer friendly thing to do.