.... but it all comes back to "why V3??" .... e.g. why NOT S3 for example .... or V2 ?

At least in part, I'd say that it's V3's intertia. It's sort of like the old adage that it takes money to attract money.......

Also: DAZ was the first one into the game with Victoria. That gives DAZ a powerful advantage -- they hold the pole postion in this race. Everyone else -- no matter how good their models are -- is playing catch-up. That's not easy to do. Especially for independent modelers without corporate money backing them up.

V2 isn't as easily "adjustable" as V3.

As for S3 -- I personally like S3. I use her on occasion. But the basic S3 figure isn't built in a way that instantly draws the eyes of everything male in sight. And the faster that the eyes of everything male in sight can be drawn......then the better that the product in question will sell.

Some people absolutely HATE to hear such bald truth stated so flatly -- it's politically incorrect to point such things out -- but that's the way that it is...........and merchants can either choose to cater to human nature (and make money), or else they can attempt to resist human nature (and suffer lower sales figures as a result).

shrug Admittedly -- sometimes, a lower-seller is a labor of love for some modeler/merchant. In such cases, the money isn't necessarily the central issue.

But if making money is the goal -- then you have to give people what they want. NOT what you want for them to want.

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@ wolf --

You are 100% correct.

Once again: don't get me wrong. I buy "ordinary" characters all of the time. And I strongly support merchants like KymJ with her excellent line of "ordinary" people (Highly recommended). Such characters fill a badly under-represented gap of "people types".

But I also know that svelte V3's hold the advantage in my overall runtime. Perhaps by a ratio of 10-to-1.

I feel safe in asserting that this state of affairs is typical for many (if not most) Poser users.

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