Posermatic opened this issue on Jan 05, 2005 ยท 107 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Wed, 05 January 2005 at 10:29 PM
If making a prettier model was all it took, it would have been done long ago.
Please: just take a look at the top-selling character packages in the marketplace. You won't find a single "plain" or "ordinary" character among them.
For some reason, this fact seems to really upset some people.
But I would remind them that it was ever thus. What's more: it will ever be thus.
It just ain't fair. But it's reality.
I still say it's support that counts.
To a point, I agree with you here. Victoria has such a hold and depth on the market at this time, that it would be extremely difficult for any other figure to make an inroad.
But support isn't the whole story -- not by a long shot.
Once again: there are clear and obvious reasons for the photographs of smiling, beautiful young women dressed in bikinis on the covers of the vast majority of slick magazines that one can find on the racks at grocery stores.
Marketing types know certain things. There are two matters that will attract attention -- and these matters spring up from the depths of the human psyche:
People will stop and stare at a beautiful woman on display. Likewise, people will stop and stare at a gory mess on display.
Beautiful girls and monsters -- these are the things that tend to sell. And in that order.
Psychologists say that two subjects have a more profound effect on the human mind than any others: Sex and Death.
Any marketing people that are worth their salt both know and acknowledge this fact. That's why products are advertised the way that they are advertised.
Unfortunately, in the current PC climate -- acknowledging such simple facts goes against the grain of many.
It violates certain sacred tenets of early 21st-century mythology. So, we have to pretend that the obvious isn't real.
Victoria will continue to beat them Every-Single-Time.
But Kaimira might just be the one to give Victoria a run for her money. Maybe.
In any case, she looks to be an excellent choice for anyone. To add to V3 in the library, or as a standalone.
Personally, I don't see such things as an either/or choice -- an issue where people have to choose up sides, and then proceed to yell at each other.
You can enjoy chocolate ice cream and vanilla at the same time. Message edited on: 01/05/2005 22:31