wait, anton. what's the difference between "...Apollo will be my one and only independant human figure," and not making another figure? frankly, i think most people interpret "figure" to mean "human figure." are you saying you'll make non-human figures? or are you saying you'll be willing to make one for daz? just curious. why don't you just clarify what this statement means: "

34. Re: P6 figures versus M3/V3 by byAnton on 11/27/05 17:36 A lot have people have bought him. But I think with so many conversion type things out there, new content is taking a hit. I'm still watching things. It's hard to explain, but for all the time they take, figures only cover their own costs. You make your living on the support stuff. There is interest, of course, but figures need bery broad merchaant interest to have a healthy and long life. I'm just not sure Apollo has enough long term merchnat support to justify Venus. You really need LOTS of deifferent merchants involved. Therein lies the delema.

because it's merely a paraphrase to go from that to "conversion tools like ww, cc and tailor have hurt new content, and therefore merchant support necessary for a successful figure, so i'm not sure i can justify venus." just saying, "i didn't say that," probably isn't going to give people a new interpretation. i know it hasn't for me; i now don't know what you were trying to say. i think people's reactions to this have been rather extreme, though. personally, i think it would be reasonable that all these new utilities emerging on the market might have some unforeseen negative effects on current marketing practices. i myself buy more clothes because of wardrobe wizard, but it does mean that i tend to consider the nature of the item and not who it's for (excluding pc club, real deal, and proclub items). so anyone making content for apollo wouldn't get out of competing with wusumah, if others shop as i do. i didn't think of that. i could see that scaring other merchants. whatever. (*** disclaimer- again, i'm interpreting. this is not the opinion or statement of anyone not making this post. ***) as a total aside, and in only my opinion, i think this is good. it means that originality and quality will be a better way to succeed than making new versions of the same basic forms (there's a lot of stuff out there that could be duplicated with textures and bump maps on the basic catsuits). and there's far from a dearth of new clothing possibilities. and just an fyi: any beef between you and calypso, you know, i wouldn't have gotten that from her comments.