shvrdavid posted at 6:44 AM Thu, 24 August 2023 - #4473324

People made the same observations when Curious Labs bought Poser, then again when e-frontier bought it, and then again with Smith Micro bought it.

And now again since Bondware bought it.

I see an obvious pattern there.

Me too:  the same pattern that the Amiga computer had.  New owners, big plans, lots of publicity . . . another sale.  The last two sales, no hardware was ever produced, it changed hands that quickly.

Poser is more successful, as it seems that every owner has put out at least one version before reselling it.

But your comment only addresses the fact that Poser gets sold a lot. It doesn't address the fact that new Poser content doesn't get sold a lot. Or much at all. No new content, it doesn't matter how rich and optimistic the new owners of Poser will be. A CGI program has to have compatible content, new content, or no one will buy it. And content creators are just as dependent on the owners of the program, unless it happens that the stuff they can create for that program is also compatible with other programs. For Poser, that used to be true. Now, the vendors only have one company that is Poser-compatible. And increasingly, Bondware has no one else selling content for Poser.