moatmai posted at 12:17 PM Tue, 2 December 2025 - #4501915

Nevertrumper posted at 11:34 AM Tue, 2 December 2025 - #4501914

I have always said it and I say it again:
Poser is scam-ware!

Your comment reads a bit as if someone is taking Poser 13 away from you and forcing you to purchase version 14. Nobody is.

How do you make that up?
The scam is, making a big announcement, that under the hood has absolutely no value for money.
-Lot's of components used for Poser are open source, but the Poser user will pay for it.
- simplifyed material editor
- simplifyed backgrund editor -those are service release updates, not version upgrades
- removal of the cloth room, "maybe we'll bring something better back later"
Well, not a big deal, if Poser was free to begin with, but they charge you 99.95$ for the upgrade and 175.95$ for the full version.
Why Poser 14 at all, if it isn't the attempt to milk some money?
Poser 14 is not an upgrade, it is a downgrade.
Poser is a zombie app. It is actually dead already.
Either because Bondware don't want to invest money into innovations for Poser, or they lack of a crew, that can deal with the software
or the software itself has reached a limit, where it cannot be upgraded anymore without making it completely unstable.
However, they still pretend to have a premium figure animation app, which they don't have.
Charging you money for this without telling you the obvious truth.
That is the scam.
The honest way would have been
Releasing some more service releases, that could include some simplifications.
Communicating the end of Poser for let's say technical reasons. 
Releasing Poser 14 for free in about 3 more years.