I don't understand why e-on did that... they really don't have a strong use case these days. I originally bought Vue for exactly two reasons: One, its render engine was WAY superior to what Poser could provide at the time (DS wasn't ready for primetime yet), and two, you could make awesome landscapes with it.

Nowadays, DS has iRay, or Poser and Superfly, wipe out the need for a decent render engine elsewhere, and landscape/atmospherics/HDRI/etc elements can be built and imported, since I assume both can handle massively large scenery these days. So, umm, where exactly does that leave Vue that they can assume a subscription model?