The success of future Poser are not more the figures , I work with both programs and with Poser for the last 22 years. Sadly the rendering quality and material room land behind the banana republic , it is not more the standard and other free softwares offer better and free solutions , the market is huge and it is not going to be better . Proper render engine quality and material room will attract new users as everything is about the visual aspect of the art work, no matter it is cartoon, stylized or realistic . Personally I don't like G8 , for me it stopped at G2-3 and for many others too . The 3D market is sinking If Poser12 bring back the standard for both rendering and materials it gonna help a lot , bringing D|S content not really , and I really did not liked the last idea when it was possible , clumpy and bad . Poser need own true content to be something great again and not hanging or be dependent on other softwares , that's how it gonna be killed I still use poser for a lot of stuff but I stopped rendering with it in 2015 and many great people and companies did the same . You can get your content today everywhere . So I do really have a great expectations with the new version that hopefully bring me back for a full time again , and if it fails, it gonna die soon even if it was for free . The secret of Poser success was in creation , keeping people creative and busy finding amazing new ways to make their art better and share with others to follow, that's how community stays strong and support each other without politics or taking a side . Crossing my fingers and waiting !

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