Posermatic opened this issue on Jan 05, 2005 ยท 107 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Wed, 05 January 2005 at 11:14 PM
No matter how pretty the character is, it's going to be awfully hard to fight market forces, which is what you're doing when you try to introduce a new character. Unless you have a group of people who are doing it solely for principle - because they want diversity, or hate DAZ, or whatever. If you can sell 300 copies of a dress for V3, or 100 copies of dress for SP, why make a dress for a non-DAZ character that will sell five copies? Even "ugly" DAZ characters sell well and get lots of support compared non-Poser characters.
I don't have any disagreement with you on this point.
We agree.
It'll be difficult for anyone to overcome Victoria's commanding position in the marketplace. Extremely difficult.
But one starts out with two strikes already, when one creates something "less than" in the looks department -- perhaps based upon PC thinking.
I think support counts for more. A lot more.
Without a doubt, support counts for a lot, too.
But the figure has to sell itself FIRST. Afterwards, the 3rd-party content support can follow.
Lots of owners of a figure = lots of sales all the way around. Including for content providers.
You aren't going to generate that type of user base by creating a Dina.
It's the old saw about creating a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
Far better to start out with silk material in the first place. Makes the goal a lot easier to accomplish down the road.