To be fair, I never started this thread over subscription suspicions, I started it over internet requirement suspicions. The subscription discussion is most welcome though, and actually, I very much doubt Poser would go "Subscription", and this is for one simple reason, that reason being DAZ.

DAZ and their DAZ Studio software, are direct competitors of Bondware and their Poser software. This is because both softwares are geared towards the same market, and DAZ Studio is completely free. If anything, far from the subscription route, Bondware might even have purchased Poser with a view to making Poser free too. Maybe they have seen that it is DAZ Studio being free that is attracting their content-buying customers to DAZ by the shipload.

And how could Bondware put an end to their content-buying customers moving over to DAZ?

• Buy Poser and offer it for free, naturally

No one should start getting excited over that comment, I could be completely wrong, but it would not surprise me if it happened, because remember, DAZ Studio was once quite an expensive product to buy (especially the pro version). So who knows, with good default base meshes designed to withstand permanent residence in the Poser Runtime, and a bunch of much needed updates to the Poser software, we just might see hoards of new people signing-up to the Poser forum on the release of Poser 12, these could be content-buying people who would not otherwise have been here if Poser had not gone free!

So to hazard a guess between:

• Poser going for subscription, driving content-purchasing customers away from Poser.
• Poser going for free, attracting content-buying customers to Poser by the shipload.

Personally, my cash would be on the latter of those, cause I doubt Bondware are commercially suicidal