I in no way want Carrara to fail. I've said it before, I use Carrara 8.1 Pro every day. I'm still learning things about it and I enjoy it. I'd hate to see anything happen to it.

On the other hand, I have no use for Genesis or any of the Genesis content related improvements made to the current release. And I don't animate, so while the improvements to animation are great, I don't need them.

I really wanted work done to improve dynamic hair and subsurface scattering, and maybe some form of dynamic cloth that didn't take forever to use. I'd love to see dynamic hair show up in multi layer renders. I always have to touch up multipass renders because the dynamic hair doesn't show up. I hate that.

And, yeah, that final 'nominal' price tag gave me sticker shock. I am really afraid to see what 9 is going to cost.