Graviton opened this issue on May 23, 2003 ยท 72 posts
JoeyAristophanes posted Fri, 23 May 2003 at 10:30 AM
whats left? With all due respect, I thought you guys would be slightly more imaginative than that. For as long as I can remember around here, people have been asking for stuff like "normal" clothes, and every time the suggestion has been dismissed "because normal stuff doesn't sell". Well, y'know, in the pro world, normal stuff sells like crazy because it's something that can be used on a wider range of projects than the latest "fantasy armour" or scifi uniform. Same thing with having a wider range of supported characters, like the elderly and realistic teenagers, and the key word there is "support", meaning if you generate a character, you generate the peripherals that go with it to add to the income stream. But usually, you try one or two things, decide it's not profitable, and abandon it for someone else to pick up the slack -- like the PT kids, for example. It was only recently that you discovered, it seems, that you could modify a Vicky outfit to fit the PT girl -- now, let's extend that a little and see how difficult it is to make a PT boy from the Mike mesh and start adapting that clothing down. You guys have been locking down into the sexy-lady-fantasy/sci-fi stuff for a little too long. Want a RW example? Look at Mattel and what they did with Barbie. Sure, that's a running joke around here sometimes, but the fact remains that Mattel gave that "fashion" doll a fully developed wardrobe that went from the most simple to whatever outrageous piece of stuff Bob Mackie could dream up. Even poor Ken has gotten a bit of respect these days: more than a few of the high-ticket Barbie outfits have a matching Ken one, and it's paying off.