It has always been a struggle to justify the cost of software upgrades and, in the present financial climate, it has become almost impossible to justify such costs.  There is always the trade off of use over the cost of an upgrade, if you wait for another six months hoping to save money fine, but what price do you put on the fun you can have using the new software now.  The changes from Poser 11 to Poser 13 is a rather big step and much has changed, also,  there are some who found Poser 12 almost impossible to use for content creation, so your intended use for Poser 13 could be a big factor.  As a hobbyist I found Poser 12 to be a big enough step up to justify the upgrade price, moving up to Poser 13 I am blown away with some of the changes.  The last few weeks has been a bundle of fun for me as I only use Superfly these days and the changes with Superfly in Poser 13, for me, justifies the upgrade price alone.  What price you can put on that is difficult/impossible to quantify but I do feel, with the world looking so depressing at present, we still need to find our fun somewhere.

At the end of the day it is an individual choice as to when or if to upgrade.  Having said all that I do wish the powers that be would offer a better upgrade price to poser 11 users.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.