Quote - LOL He's just being contrary. He can't prove it wasn't said any better then I can prove it was. But as I have shown, whether it was said or not, the present facts speak for themselves. C8.5 is a complete departure from the upgrade path. I don't need any more proof then that. The burden of proof to the contrary is now on him.

All it would take is a DAZ_ to come on here and say there will be a full upgrade path from C8 to C9. But we already know DAZ has dropped the upgrade paths in carrara. So how can I be wrong? As I said, there wont be an upgrade path from C8 to C9 because there is no upgrade path from C8 to C8.5. More over there wont be an upgrade path from C8.5 to C9 ether.

Like the old joke "denial isn't just a river in egypt".

As I have said and keep reminding people, my assumptions of what DAZ is going to do has been right 16 out of 19 times, I'd bet on those sort of odds any time. Who wouldn't?

And I wont even argue I am not a reactionary. I feel it, I let it go, me bottling it up is a bad thing. Yes I have embaresed myself on more then one ocasion, I often misunderstand. But I'd rather let it go, rant and be embaresingly wrong, then bottle it up and end up with bleeding ulcers again.

"We" you and the Mouse in your pocket? I said it never happened, because I know I never made any such post. I am the alleged source of your "leak." The only reason I posted in this thread at all is because you are claiming I said something I never did. 

And as far as departure from upgrade paths, I will remind you of the Bryce 6 release. It also departed from the standard upgrade paths at launch, there was no upgrade price at all, that did not mean anything for the future.

Further the upgrade path for Carrara has never been set in stone. For a while you could only upgrade from one version back, regardless of where you acquired it, to include from a cover disk, at other times it was any other version, and yet other times it was other versions with a graduated rate.

Trying to draw conclusions of what DAZ3D might do in terms of pricing in the future based on one example, as everyone here knows, is not only a waste of time, but will almost never give you the correct answer. 

Oh, and getting a free cover disk, does not qualify you for the current upgrade to 8.5, go back and read the qualifications, you had to purchase a copy of Carrara from DAZ3D.

Sorry to disrupt your rant with the truth, but you said if someone with a DAZ_ in front of their name corrected you, you would accept it. I may not have that on this forum, this is Renderosity after all, but it is rather easy to verify that I do have one. Look at your DAZ Studio or Carrara 8.5 about screens.