"Point 2. I also firmly believe that the acquiescent attitude here convinced CL that they could get away with Point 1."

You may have been using Poser for a while but have you been reading here for a while? No one has remained quiet in this forum. -or the Poser Technical forum.

"Kendra, no, I'm usually very optimistic on matters. But three years of P4 with no attempt from its owners to try to fix it, makes me skeptical of anything CL does." & "But given CL's track record with Poser 4, do you really trust them to fix 5 if there is anything wrong with it? Or will we get, "Sorry, no time, working on Poser 6."?"

CL took over Poser in vs4. My poser4 is from Metacreations. It's not like CL has been dicking around since P4 first came out. The put out the patch and started working on vs 5. And from what I've seen of it, it looks like it will be well worth the wait. Until this month I had no idea that vs5 was as close as it was.
It would be nice to know the upgrade price in advance but CL is going above and beyond by posting in here and letting us see what they're working on for us.

Yes, they're also out to make a buck, who isn't?

...... Kendra