I have no problem with their Good Intentions, and despite some going into a "I'm Bashing Them" mode- I'm not! I've had business involvements with Japanese companies for many years and have loved my trips to Japan for business and fun. I am VERY familiar with Japanese culture and people! Since everything is about speculation here- let's just look at the history of Poser! 1. Original product by Fractal Design. Extremely brilliant group of programmers and art-technology thinkers. 2. "Merged" in with Metacreations to provide, it was said, an "inter-linking" between software like Painter, Bryce, RayDream Studio- guess what- it NEVER HAPPENED! And this by a totally "Cool" and "Innovative" team of corporate thinkers (Kai Krause, etc.) 3. Poser finally wanders into the hands of egisys and MORE big Press Releases on what Wonderful New Things Were Going To Happen!!! Instead, it was a dribbling out of half-assed fixes on a software product that was now Many Years Old! Obviously they couldn't match what the original Fractal Design programmers could do and came up with. Instead just buggy patches and fixes! 4. Now many years later, a Japanese company finally buys them. Fine! It has only given DAZ time to build their own app. People are AMAZED and LOVE Poser because it has been the ONLY GAME IN TOWN! Bring out a new program- like DAZ will be doing- and I think they will leave Old Poser IN THE DUST! The folks with E-Frontier will need to do a LOT to take a now Very OLD Technology like Poser and bring it up to Year 2004 Speed. It will be almost a COMPLETE re-write of the code, I think- if E-Frontier wants to fund it! Good Luck Mr. Ando. I wish you guys success! LOVE your Japanese Babe Characters!!!