A_Sunbeam posted at 2:15PM Mon, 21 October 2019 - #4367758

gate posted at 8:04AM Mon, 21 October 2019 - #4367711

A_Sunbeam posted at 4:29PM Sun, 20 October 2019 - #4367705

@gate

I use an external drive just for testing; that doesn't affect your working installation.

well you just gave me an Idea , Lets assume that the activation file is the same , should actually be so it would mean having two versions running, then remove the activation data generated from Poser 11.2 that in theory would deactivate both as there will be only one at the same Place , then reactivate Poser 11.1 " e voila " a permanent activation for both in one... this might work out unless that an error would occur and only one activation could run at once , this would be baad as activating more then 3 times the 11.2 version would cause a message that you activated it to many times !! this case would cause a pretty baad issue with bondware as I would insist for my right using my Licence.

Perhaps I haven't made the idea clear. The external 'testing' drive is a clone of tne Macs internal drive.

So if you do the same and clone your main drive to an external and then start up from the external drive you can install Poser 11.2 on that, replacing the existing Poser on that drive alone and not affecting your main drive. Then you can run Poser 11.2 and test everything out without messing up the main drive.

Ok that would mean on Windows to make a secondary boot drive for example with "Paragon" then boot from the secondary Drive , ok this would sure not affect the main system. but allot of work again... it is already known that there will be some issues especially with Py's so actually there is no Updates on Poser 11.2 that would be a reason to really have it ....

I made some other tests with Poser 11.1 and it seems that I managed to have it Permanent activated no more call home as far as I can tell ( Best solution ) So I am on the good side until Poser 12 is released before that I'll not be changing anything to much risc with all these Updates that do not even have Information and force a Full install ( It is like buying a Cat in a Bag )

Naturally it now will show on how many Users loose interest , as far as I can tell it went down by 70% on my side since Bondware took over that sure means that either Customers are upset, or do not want to take any risc of further investments , or just jump Ship ..... but really it does not look very good . ( I Hope that it is not a Permanent Issue ) ----> That new Strict Bond-Ware Licence seems to be a real Poser Killer <----

I do not understand the strategy, as Bond-ware depends more on the Models sold then on the software , there are allot of Honest users out there , there is no need for such a activation process and even if one would use a Hacked version he would buy Poser models to fill he's library ( Unless Bondware share the same bed with Daz and want to kill off Poser ) < ----- It already went this way with RDNA ( Buy and Kill )

Bondware can not sell Poser to users that potentially buy models, if Creators STOPP creating models for it. If Creators drop down as it already happen then users will not get Poser , if users don't get Poser then why should there be creators making models for sale ?

Bondware better think it over well ( And Fast ) as every user that turns the back on you is a big Loss !