@Hornet
With respect, you have to remember that Nerd has a position to uphold now, he's not just a member of the community - he's more than that.  To casual users and noobs, what he posted probably looked enticing for one reason or another, who knows.  But seriously, most users are going to look at that initial post from him and think to themselves, is this a joke or something?

As you're one of the level-headed people here, ask yourself this (and be perfectly honest about it); do you honestly think it was a good idea for the Poser Product Manager to post such an uninspiring demonstration for an upcoming release of Poser?  Surely the idea is to wow people, not scare them off, so it's not the replies that are scaring people off into DAZ territory, it's the unprofessional style of post he chose to make, and it's worse when you consider there is already a massive amount of discontent among the Poser community for how far behind the program already is.  Last thing we need to hear is that the upcoming version is already behind by default.

No wonder people are pissed-off about that, and to be honest, I think the replies here are pretty tame all things considered.

Personally, as I've already said, I think Cycles is a very good idea, but the lack of GPU rendering is a very bad one.  We've been rendering with GPU for like five or more years now, yet they tell us it's not going to do that in Poser (even with a renderer that supports it - lol).  So I understand you not liking peoples responses here, but fact is, most of them are perfectly justified and rather tame considering the poor effort Nerd demonstrated.  That's nothing against him personally, but for a product manager to post what he did, that's just not on.  Being a "Sneak Peek" it should show something enticing, but it didn't, and even worse, they're even telling us that what we obviously expected from that renderer, isn't available.

They charge for this thing, so they need to show some professionalism, and basically, get real.