Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: 11.3 anounced

ghostship2 opened this issue on Nov 27, 2019 ยท 131 posts


DCArt posted Mon, 02 December 2019 at 3:53 PM

The other Issue is that actually it is not in any concern for Bondware as we found that it is stated that Smith micro can not just deactivate sold Licences and sell these to another one they guarantee the activation of Poser 11.1 and Game Dew the only reason for the call home is to Prevent Piracy and not intended to shut down a sold Poser Version. But well as we can see it happen and this has been abused by sending the notification that you have to update to bond-ware else Poser will stopp working.

For the nth time. The reason that you have to update from 11.1 to 11.2 is because SMITH MICRO SHUT DOWN THEIR LICENSING SERVER FOR POSER. Smith Micro is the company that initiated the "phone home" feature in Poser. Not Renderosity. The licensing server used by Poser 11 and 11.1 is OWNED by Smith Micro and cannot be transferred over to Renderosity because there are other software products that Smith Micro still owns that use that licensing server. The ONLY option that Renderosity had was to provide an update that would allow Poser 11.2 to continue working under their ownership. Which meant changing the activation method so that it didn't involve the Smith Micro licensing server.