Azath posted at 12:39PM Sun, 04 April 2021 - #4416132

Personally I do not mind Updates Upgrades it can be useful for many things. But when looking at the whole story that from a working poser 11.1 it just went into a 11.2 beta with already a broken pyton engine and many other things that gotten removed , that never got out of Beta , just got dropped , this does not show allot of strength . Considering that all started in august 2019 One year and never fixed before Poser 12 Beta came out , after all the release of Poser 12 Beta was almost a half year ago , so we are in the 2ond year of Beta that is not really realistic !

Sure If you are experienced with Poser it is a great thing you can fix the stuff your self that you Purchase, but where are all the Pro's now ?! the ones who made all the great modeling and Pyton scripts !?

Just a simple strategy would of Prevented such disasters. Would of Bondware and Smithmicro worked together and removed the call home in Poser 11.1, 11.2 - 3, and 2014 Game Dew they would of had allot more success and would of kept allot of users over the Globe! But well control fanatics always get what they deserve. They could of left the Call Home on Poser 12 . Users would of gotten trust Creators would of been motivated to make more releases for Poser attracting more customers.

Creators would of had a Working essential Pyton engine for creations and would of also been motivated to learn using poser 12 , but no instead they just excused there moves saying " It was Smith Micro " kicking out allot of valuable Creators and Members " Trying to make em Mouth Dead " .

Good moves would not of shown weakness, it would of shown strength and a will to bring Poser back up on feet.

Don't forget that SM really slowed down with Poser 11: V11.2 was released in 2019-09-20 and V11.3 in 2020-02-06: 4 months later. Something like 10 months later, Bondware has already released at least 8 versions of Poser 12, in 4 months. Furthermore, Python 2.7, used by Poser 11.x, was officially stopped on January 1st, 2020, , whereas this Python was slated to be retired in 2015! One can really wonder if SM had one day ever planned to follow Python's life... Just as a reminder: Python3 started in 2006.

I've dived in my archives, and I've found that the PDFs installed with Poser Game Dev, which corresponds to the last Poser 10, date from March 6th, 2015. And That means that Poser 11.0 should already have been planned to use the Python 3... And If I look for files that date from 2006, I retrieve a lot in... Poser 7.

Now, Bondware doesn't any choice: upgrade to 3.x. And only the 3.7 because of Apple...

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