crowbar opened this issue on Nov 19, 2004 ยท 40 posts
Netherworks posted Fri, 19 November 2004 at 11:22 AM
My 2 cents
There are a lot of divisions going on.
We're all divided over which version of Poser to use or going with DAZ Studio. This has been going on for a while but it takes a toll.
There are so many figures and sub-figures that everyone's divided on who they should stick with and unless you're willing to spent a good bit of money, you can't possibly get everything for all of them.
You have all of the 3rd gen figures (Victoria, Mike, David, Stephanie, Laura, Luke)
You have a host of other folks that are actively used: MayaDoll, Koshini, Stacy, The Girl, Krystal, EJ, Neftoon Gal and Pal, Laroo 2, etc etc (there are a literal ton of others but I don't have all day to write this).
You have the AEON line which adds several more.
You have the older figures (Victoria and the whole bunch) plus reworks of core Poser figures.
Sixus1 has a line of figures as does DCort and DSI.
Nothing wrong with any of that I'm not knocking anyone but if you pull back, there are a huge population of figures and figure markets.
As a developer, again, you can't possibly support every one. I hate having to pick and choose which figures that I feel I can market content for - someone's (especially a potential customer) is going to feel left out. I've dipped into the 3rd party pool as much as I can without murdering my own online business and I know I've had a falling out with some folks as I've had to pull back to larger markets. If any of you are reading this, herein lies the dilemma.
And now a new anime figure is on the horizon which probably means a whole new wardrobe again. :/ But once the fresh, flavor-of-the-week feeling is over... what happens?
I can see it for the kids because there's a big size difference, but do we really need completely new jp's and so forth again in a unimesh creation? The V3 head is so dense that a new head morph could have just been sculpted for this.
Anyways, sorry to just be ranting away ;)
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