About the best way to answer your question is with the tried and true tech support answer, "It depends". SHORT ANSWER- You will likley buy it at some point anyway, get it while it's on sale. LONG ANSWER- So far, My experiences have been pretty good with a few bumps in the road. But as with any new application there are some things about it that do stuff very weird. Entropic stated it very clear when he suggested that the biggest problem is the users attempting to get too much too fast. Figuring that since they are vetran poser users all the P5 stuff would be old hat, and that CL did everything the community asked for the way they asked for it. There are some cool new features in P5 and some changes to what would be the poser4 looks. Some are cool, others are a little tricky and some are complete mysteries written in greek, backwards. The big thing to remember her is that for however long P5 has been worked on, it was worked on in complete secresy, and completely cut off from everything. So the things beta testers did and what they reported back to were under the constrains put there by CL. If they had not, the application would never have been released, constantly being revised tweaked and reworked. What that means is now that it is out. Real people are using the application under real world situations. Meaning a few tousand different types of systems and configurations. different OS and environments. And the individual abilites of the users. So, If you are one of those folks that climbed under the hood of poser and became familar with,learned,looked at, how files work how all the details interrealate, morph targets,conforming figures, on and on. Then your transition to P5 will be more or less "Smooth" Meaning you will be able to fugure out why transmaps in P5 work differnt and bump maps and all that. This does mean looking at the manual sometimes, and a whole lot of trail and error. But, if you do that then you get more out of the application. Since it is new there will be bugs, some real, some imagined, some that will be fixed, others that will never be. So if you wait, you may give up a chance to help mold poser5 the way poser4 was. Pay a bit more when they bring up the price (investors want to see a good return.). If you get it now, You'll have many failures, many "Why won't it do what I wants", and just as many "Gee, whiz, that's cool" happen to you. So the choice is yours, Play big, or stay home.