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Basically, the Poser market in characters, clothing, hair, *et al* is controlled by what sells the most copies. Beautiful women (and items created for them) sell more than anything else does -- so about 75% to 80% of the items offered for sale fall into this category. It's no different from the sales of other types of products -- any advertising type will tell you that putting an attractive woman in a picture next to a bag of pretzels will make the pretzels sell better. The same thing holds true for Poser - to the great irritation of some.

Occasionally, a given merchant will create a guaranteed low-sales item as a labor of love -- and that's a good thing. Otherwise, certain Poser characters wouldn't have any support at all. In any case, PhilC's Wardrobe Wizard program has made individual character support less of an issue than it used to be. With Wardrobe Wizard, you can now fit clothes designed for many models (like the heavily-supported V3) to other models (like the much less-supported Laura).

As for racial types - once again, it's a marketing issue. Nothing more than that. Personally, I buy all types of characters -- and I have them in my runtime. But the vast majority of what I buy tends to be centered around V3 in her various incarnations. And I suspect that I represent about 90% of the Poser market in this. Sure, you'll see complaints from time to time coming from people who object to the status quo. Oh well, whenever they can figure out a way to change human nature.......then Poser product sales will adjust to reflect that. But until then, V3 (or her future replacements) will continue to rule the sales figures by wide margins.

BTW - in one way, you truly do reveal your "newbie" status -- most of these issues have been discussed in the forums ad infinitum. These themes are perennial, and they regularly pop up like mushrooms in the woods. The discussions of these themes always end up going in exactly the same direction every-single-time. But people never seem to get tired of bringing these issues up again and again. Sort of like talking about the weather. Or about politics.

Welcome to Poser. Enjoy.

Message edited on: 10/24/2005 12:31

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