wolf359 posted at 12:53PM Mon, 02 December 2019 - #4372015

... I still run Adobe CS 3( including After Effects) on my old intel Mac. I was delighted to discover that My 15 year old Old $2000 USD Endorphin ragdoll physics software runs on my new windows 10 PC.

Some companies ,like Autodesk ,can get away with forced upgrades,calling home and deactivation of older versions because their user base are professional companies with steady revenues AND they offer feature sets that these people really want/need.

Bondware /Poser is NOT in such a position and does so at their own peril.

I Do-Not-Like the idea of software shutting down and I very much agree with the "Bondware is not Autodesk" comparison above by wolf359. Charging for the software is ok. Copy protection in the form of registering it like Nero does is pretty much ok (I’ve had some problems when I upgraded disk sizes and changed memory configurations). But having the software phone in or go dark is NOT ok, at least for me.

I felt that a lot of that other thread (https://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/?thread_id=2938693) was a mostly well spoken and informative discussion and am sorry that one or two writers got emotionally combative at the very end, the last half of page 3 or so. Before that it was interesting.

I am not rich, but I am not poor and I operate offline because in the past I've been hacked and had conflicts due to virus support software that caused crashes and have had to rebuild hard drives and load software and serial numbers, losing one or two programs along the way. It happened more than once and I vowed ‘never again!’ with my more expensive stuff.

I don’t care so much about my laptop and tablet because I don’t run much proprietary there other than Office.

So, my one wish is for 11.3 NOT to phone home or expire, and that the honest and definitive statement ‘it is what it is and will not be changing’ regarding that aspect at the end of the other thread is actually malleable at the higher levels of Bondware leadership.