soccer coach posted at 4:56PM Mon, 23 September 2019 - #4363602

Look, yeh I get it, but I do this as a hobby. If someone from Renderosity wants to stop by the house and spend all the time it is going to take to get up and running again, they are invited over. I think its funny that I can still fire up Poser 3 on an old box and it runs fine.....The program was running fine before....get it? I Paid for the program. What right does anyone have to suspend or stop me from using it? Maybe Ford sells out To GM. Now your car wont run until you contact gm for their approval and a software update, even though You own the car? I paid for the license already, the program was running, get it?

If you want to blame someone, blame SM for adding in the license check not Bondware. They're doing what they can with a stupid decision that they had no control over. Though I'm not sure if they did, but I hope that the phoning home was removed because I've always hated it.

Though it's odd that you compare owning a physical property like a car to buying software since what you're really paying for with software is just a license to use said application. You also agreed to the ToS before installing the initial program, Sm/Bondware can revoke a license if it's in those terms but that's usually if someone broke those ToS.

Just download the new version, use your current PP11 serial and it should work. If it doesn't, contact tech support or post about it in this thread that the new version isn't accepting your SN. If your SN verifies than the installer makes it quick and painless, and when it asks, just tell it to use the existing preferences and most people have had 0 problems getting right back to work in Poser.