Azath

There has been plenty of information released as to why the upgrade to poser 11.2 was required, but getting people to read it was a different matter. Then it only takes a few people spreading incorrect and misleading information. to confuse the situation

Lets clarify. Poser Pro2014 game dev and and poser11 versions stopped working because Smith Micro closed down their servers. This is a fact.

Did the deal between SM and Bondware include the requirement that Bondware takeover responsibility for serving these licences thus releasing SM from its promises that in the case of the demise of SM contingency plans had been put in place to allow those poser versions to continue working, or did SM unilaterally decide that they were no longer involved with poser so all commitments to poser users were now null and void? Only those involved in the deal know.

In either case Bondware then produced a FREE upgrade so that everybody using poser versions affected by the SM server closure (except for those using poser on a 32 bit system admittedly) then had working versions of poser..

So Bondware had no option but to release an interim update to keep poser working. If it had called it poser 12, it would have made no difference, poser 11 would have stopped working and all poser 11 users would have been forced to update only to find they had the same version of poser as they previously had, and would really have felt cheated.

And of course poser 2014gamedev and poser11 basic users got a free upgrade to poser 11 pro

So where has money been stolen? No-one has had to pay for the update? Why has trust been stolen, Bondware rushed to get a working version of the software to users, gave many of them a free upgrade and also provide a large amount of extra free content.

But some people are never satisfied, can never look at the situation with a balanced view and will do nothing but complain, posting ridiculous and inaccurate comments such as your statement about stealing money from customers.