As much as every merchant hates to hear this, good quality at cheap prices entices me to purchase a product. I know everybody has to make a living, but every customer also only has so much money to purchase poser products and relatively few of those customers will ever see any income coming back from their Poser artwork. If something is inexpensive and may be something I'll use in the future, I'll buy it. If it's expensive, I'll hold off till I need it. One of the marketing things DAZ does well is frequent sales and coupons that help drop the price of products to a price range I'm willing to pay. No other marketplace does that. RMP doesn't give more than a generic 10% off and sales by various merchants. RDNA has the half off Christmas sale, but even there the prices are still generally higher than I want to pay. I have a lot of content for Poser, that I've either bought or downloaded as freebies over the years, that I've never used in any artwork. I'm reluctant to spend a lot for anything that I only might use. I tend to stick to the larger marketplaces because there's only so much time I can spend looking for stuff to buy. There are about a half dozen sites I look at once a week and a few more that I'll check into less often than that. Regular freebies sometimes entice me to look at other sites, but it's much easier for a large store to provide that attraction than for a small personally run website. Smaller Poser content creators have to align themselves to the larger stores to increase their visibility. I have no obligation to visit a hundred Poser sites every week. Do we really need other human figures? This may sound simplistic, but isn't a mesh something that can be deformed to look very differently than the mesh's original form? Just because there hasn't been a great oriental version of V3 doesn't mean that one can't be made. It's just a matter of making a better morph. It's going to be hard for anybody to create a new human figure that will wrestle away the level of popularity that the DAZ Millennium figures have. Let's keep in mind that M3 and V3 have considerably more support than David or Stephanie, let alone the Young Teens or PreSchoolers or Freak or SheFreak. Try to find any products for the old PreSchool Boy. I'm not arguing quality or anything as much as simple popularity. Mayadoll is probably the best supported figure outside of DAZ, but stuff for her is getting harder to find each year. As an artist, I already have human figures that have the capacity to look like many different other figures. It's hard to sell me a new human figure unless it does something remarkably different than what I already have and will result in significantly better renders and significantly less time to pose realistically. The chicken or the egg problem with clothing still exists even if a new figure does start giving me those time-saving and better rendering advantages. The trick then is going to be how to convince me that it's worth making me part with my hard-earned money for a new figure.

My visual indexes of Poser content are at http://www.sharecg.com/pf/rgagnon