BastBlack opened this issue on Sep 05, 2005 ยท 22 posts
kobaltkween posted Tue, 06 September 2005 at 2:58 PM
ok, then you're awfully good to your poser people. from what i've been reading for the past several years, most people mainly clothe their vicky. everyone else gets the leavings. while i know 3dwizard made his jeans for just about all the daz figures, awful soul's vanilla is v3 only. sixus1's designate alpha is h.e.r. only. lady littlefox's hemlock and black rose are krystal only. unless there's a freebie i don't know about, ElorOnceDark's celeste outfit is stephanie petite only. all of those great outfits are for great figures that just don't have the popularity that v3 does. some stuff has is now being sold with various versions (like bat lab products, some of mdp's products), but that's built in, not additional money. actually, i only know a few products that have separate versions for various figures, and most of those are in the platinum club at daz (my time is generally more expensive than $2). in terms of products that have only one version (v3), the list is enormous. and most stuff i know that has multiple versions, outside of jeanz and the daz catsuits (which, incidentally, all have different attributes), only has 2 or 3 different versions. i don't look at many pose sets, so i can't speak to what posing artists are doing so much. i do know i didn't buy either of nerd3d's millenium walk designer sets when i found them because i was looking for something for aiko. the motion request thread i recently participated motion suggestions, not target figures, were requested. i could be completely off here, but my feeling is that again, the marketplace is has more non-overlapping sets of poses than figure duplicated sets. just from looking in the various marketplaces, the number of merchants making money off of converted clothing items is much lower than those making original items that only work on one item. and that doesn't even get into the number of items that include all the possible body morphs for a figure. i've seen numerous threads where multiple people have said "i wish this item was made for figure x. i would get it if it was." i've seen this most with the furry and the fairy communties, but i've seen it here and at daz in regards to everyone from david and stephanie petite to judy and don. i've seen figures (both original and morphed characters) come out and fizzle because they didn't have "3rd party clothing support." and depending entirely on capsces to make clothing morphs for her incredible sets had me thinking i just was going to have to rely on painted clothes. her support is more than great, don't get me wrong, but there's only so much one person can do. i don't doubt that some people's "new clothes" itch is presently being filled by converted clothes. but i don't think it's made a serious dent in the poser product impulse buys (i don't have numbers, but the amount of new products in gallery pictures seems to be constant). if most merchants only make v3 stuff, and all of us who have chosen other main characters for various reasons (like better bending, smaller size, lower polygons, etc.) didn't buy their stuff before and do now, it's more money for the same work. it's only less money for the those who make conversions and have people decide the professional, custom conversion isn't worth paying for. if i had to put money down on which group contains more people, i'd definitely place my money on the v3 only merchants who have s3/a3/v2/ptg/laura/m3/david/m2/furrette/furraldo users that covet their stuff.