very little content. I can't find pictures of what content they have anywhere. What content does Poser 12 contain? I'd like to at least see it before I buy it.

Yes, lack of a PDF preview brochure for the 5Gb of free content is a drawback. It would be a big booster if they could produce such a thing and have it look good (hide Barney and his ilk, maybe). But there's a lot of good stuff in there. Including La Femme and Robokitty.

It also had a link on the page to see extra Downloadable content you get with it and it went to a 404.

Not sure which link you are clicking. But you need to enter your serial number to get the extras. Presumably those who are still running the free trial don't get the Extras until they buy.

Poser 12 is still Early Access though. One low-risk way to do it at low cost would be to get the $80 Poser 11 licence from Neowin, install Poser 11, get the free content bundle that way. As far as I know the 5Gb free bundles are basically the same.

lose Internet and Poser tries to check you your software

Poser 11 and 12 will occasionally 'ping' the licence server to check you are using a valid serial. So you do need to run it while being online, or it may refuse to start up. Being offline will not wipe your licence though, obviously.

Genesis figures may not be able to be brought in anymore.

So far as I know the new Renderosity version of Poser 11 can run the DSON importer for Genesis 1 and 2 in all versions, or so I'm told. But the installer for DSON is no longer on the Daz store. You would need to ask around about that.

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