Quote - V3, the most popular poser figure, is blue moon figure in my runtime.  It just seems odd how quickly some figures are dismissed as being niche figures without really having a chance to compete in the market...

A few years ago, a new restaurant opened for business in our town.  Watching the building and the signs as the site was under construction led me to the conclusion that the eatery was going to be a place that I'd need to try out.  I expected that the food there would prove to be a bit on the pricey side -- it gave all indications of being a place for a fancy Saturday night out.

Well......the restaurant kindly mailed out some menus to people in the local area just prior to their grand opening.  The menu prominently featured such popular dishes as alligator meat, rattlesnake, ostrich steaks -- and so forth.

The shiny new restaurant closed its doors about three months later.

And why......?  Couldn't the intrepid restaurateur simply have sent out a second menu mailing which offered people MORE alligator meat at greatly reduced prices?  What if they had offered to give away a free lifetime supply of alligator meat?  Wouldn't that have caused the customers to pound the restautant's doors down trying to be the first ones to get to a table?

Whenever these 'alternative figures vs. the DAZ figures' threads come up, one often hears the argument presented that the real problem stems from the lack of outside support for those same alternative figures.  If only -- we are told -- the 3rd-party vendors would start churning out products to support those alternative figures -- then the alternative figures would REALLY take off and fly !  Let's see more of that alligator meat offered up to the buying public !  That'll bring in swarms of customers like flies to a spilled soft drink !

Sorry -- but it just don't work thataway.  The market likes what it likes.  And for some mysterious reason or other, that simple fact is quite upsetting to some.......but I'd speculate that the 'mysterious reason' is most likely because the vast majority of the market doesn't happen to like whatever it is that they like.  After all -- some few rare people (and sometimes quite vocal) actually enjoy the taste of alligator meat -- for who knows what reason.  But most of us don't like it...........in fact, we've never even tried it; nor have we so much as thought about trying it.  Nor do we intend to start now.  We'll keep right on ordering our plain beefsteak as we like it.  Not as someone else's off-the-wall tastes dictate that the rest of us ought to like it.  We won't even give the alligator a second look.

Lest anyone misunderstand what I am saying here: in my book, alternative figures are great!  And I've got a fair number of them in my runtime.  I wish that outside vendors would produce more of them........so that I can use them as a handy garnish in my scenes with V3.

So bring on more alternative figures.  V3 can use some background models to enhance the scene.  A good alligator figure would be nice..........

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