Afrodite-Ohki posted at 7:04AM Thu, 28 November 2019 - #4371527

movida posted at 9:50AM Thu, 28 November 2019 - #4371520

At this point I think the only real reason for the upgrade to 11.2 is that bondware replaced sm's phone home utility with their own (maybe more invasive - it seems so if it's calling home more frequently) and redirected to their servers, The extra content was a bribe and distraction:) I do think this was not quite ethical, consumers should have been given an option to keep their 11.1 running as is, and the lacking explanation of what was going on (no release notes for example) indicate a not serious concern with transparency. As for SM - we gave our money to them and they're now out of the country. How convenient.

They have NEVER hid from any of us that 11.2 was basically to rebrand Poser and replace the activation system. They constantly and openly called it a BRIDGE update because of that. If you want to call OUR gifts (as vendors who offered the extra content in hopes of giving back to Poser community and making it more active again) "bribes and distraction" please, feel free to delete the content.

Honestly, you people's desire to find insult in what is simply common software practice is ending up insulting much more than Bondware.

As one of the "you people's" so disparagingly referred to I'd like to direct your attention to the thread where some end user had the audacity to inquire about release notes: https://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/?thread_id=2939285#msg4368602 and was soundly attacked by the fan boy contingency.

Nobody wants to attack Bondware and we'd like to feel free enough to question the end results of decisions made without being attacked. We'd love to work happily in Poser without feeling like the new mark in a remake of The Sting.

So there.

PS: Jenn Blake was the one offering legit explanations, consistently