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congrats! you've got gold! ;) i'm afraid though, that euro price will be somewhere around 800...

Dadgum I wish they'd give the price for upgrades so I'd know how many pennies to save...:>0

A lot of people would love to know the suggest upgrade price, no doubt the UK price will increase a couple hundred over here like it always seems too.

nothing is going to stop me getting poser5 short of worldwar3. Rob

Ziggy, the pound's very strong against the dollar right now. Each 1 buys you $1.57...

Yeah I know, just UK prices never equal up to $ Prices after current conversion rates added, a prime example would be the pro pack. Strength of pound good for buying currently, not for selling mind.

It could be worse. You could be in Australia. With the value of our dollar so low compared to the US doller, it is going to be almost double the cost for us. So, I am looking at roughly $1089 for Poser and that is not including any shipping and handling :(

ouch poor Bella :( oh heck I forgot about the shipping, damn that'll add more to the price. Rob

Upgrades Unlimited are usually about 8 for p&p

Glad I won't have to pay for the full version - that would be $700-$800 Canadian. Don't know if I'll be able to afford it even with the upgrade prices - eager to see what they are. I don't have pro-pack so I'm guessing the upgrade price for me would be around $350 US or more - still rather expensive in Canadian dollars. Looks like Poser 5 will be real step up from P4 when I do eventually get my hands on it.

"details about a Macintosh version will be announced later this summer." Grrrrrrr jeepers sometimes I feel like the red-headed step child 'cause I own a Mac. Me want poser 5 now! Sigh... the price ya pay for having the greatest computer on earth.. ; -) Any idea what the upgrade path'll be like??

The upgrade price is going to be the make-or-break for me. I can't spend $549 to upgrade poser, or even half that. IIRC, Poser 4 cost me something in the ballpark of $150-$200 when I got it from Meta. Anything more than that and I have to fold... I quite frankly cannot see many hobbiests paying $549 either. For those not using poser for profit, it would be a really expensive toy! Sure, a few people would get it, but most people will just feel like CL has screwed things up by over-enhancing Poser to the point where it can't be sold at hobbiest prices. Every other major 3D software is actually coming way down in price! As for the mac version coming late, that just sucks. It had better have the same price and upgrading structure as the win version though, or there will be a true uprising from the mac folks. -Adam

We have the greatest tool ever for telling stories and creating the best and most impressive art ever. It is worth every penny. With the Vue enhancement as well, the ability to create a low budget animated feature film just came within reach of the public. These tools are phenomenal! Cannot wait! Go CL!!! JG

How much is Poser 4 going for now (or at least before the announcement?) I'm going to say that the upgrade price will be at least $550 - that, which is probably going to put it at least $350, ne? Yowie. I could probably afford that, but I'm just not sure I want to bother. I upgraded to Poser 4 two years after it came out because it was difficult to make my story characters and their outfits in Poser 3. I'm pretty happy with the results I get from 4, a good chunk of the stuff features shown for Poser 5 I probably wouldn't use since I avoid photo-realism for most projects as a stylistic choice, and the simple fact is that I think the chance of my system effectively running it around much like those of a snowball's in hell. Even a hardware upgrade there would only help so much, since I'm still on Windows 98 and haven't found an acceptable OS upgrade. Well, to sum up my self-pitying whining, I just don't think it'll be worth it to me for a year or two at least. When the majority of the freestuff section won't work for me anymore.

I guess if one looks at the ProPack being built into Poser5, then the price is only slightly higher than what Poser4 + ProPack went for.

In ProPack we have pose and set-up tabs for the two "rooms". Look at the images Steve posted showing... how many tabs? :) Carolly

Seven tabs :-) Anthony H. Curious Labs

chuckle @ Anthony Maybe Steve should have brought those 7 veils with him to Texas? Squares of silk and some fabric paint... we could round up some artists and for each area create a distinctive veil with a handy and clearly marked pull-away tab. You probably wouldn't want to allow punsters near the paintcans, though. Carolly

Um, people, point of order here... The $549 price quoted is NOT the UPGRADE - it's the Original Standalone for people who don't already have Poser 4 or the ProPack. Sheesh. If yer gonna worry about something, at least make sure you're worrying about the correct info. ;-) Kate (wondering why she feels like she's walked in on a game of "telephone")

Well, I feel for me, I will probably purchase the standalone because my version is from Metacreations and I don't to have to deal with any incorrections or complications. I'd rather start from scratch with Curious Labs. I may feel differently down the road. But I also feel that I may wait a while for people, like yourselves, to give it an overall review, and for perhaps their first patch or something.

I'm not waiting for anything, soon as it's released I'm buying, I haven't been this excited about a piece of software since the first time I loaded Doom :) Rob

Rob, I have a feeling you won't be disappointed :-). Anthony

Im not waiting for its release. Im digging a tunnel right now under the CL complex. Took the floorboards up this morning, the house is filling up with dirt, and I might be there by the time they have a MAC version, but they can still bill me, theyve earned it.

the step forward with Poser5 will be like moving from using poser1 to Poser4, to all those out there that say poser is a kids toy, guys it just grew up. My credit card is primed & ready all I need now is the go ahead from CL, the big countdown has started :-))))

Not that anyone cares, but like FyreSpiryt, I don't think I will be rushing to purchase Poser 5. As a hobbyist (who also unfortunately lives in Europe) it would be very hard for me to justify the expense. Unless the upgrade turns out to be $200 or less, I don't think I want to invest in it. The new Poser will include a lot of very exciting features, but I doubt I would really use them anyway. All I wanted was a better rendering engine. Kimberly

any chance of a list of the minimum specs sometime soon? This will also decide things for a lot of people. Rob

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