I had to chuckle about this. In response to the initial post, this really is an issue of personal favorites and subjective opinions. Each figure has their good and bad points, and their fans and detractors. It up to your own personal taste. While I certainly agree that making the most of free items before spending your hard own money, the consumer focus is primarity on the DAZ figures and has been for quite some time. With some of the new figures put out by eFrontier like Miki and Yuki and the G2 males, that may change at some point.

I tend to use whatever figures get the job done. What separates one figure from the next in the area of "beauty" is your own skill and ability. It doesn't matter if you're using Posette or Vicky or Jessie or any other figure, if you have the skill you can make people drool over your renders using whatever figure you choose. Personally, I would discount the opinion of anyone with extreme views one way or the other about any figure. What you're really getting is a biased view and that isn't going to help you make a informed decision.

You're best bet is to browse the galleries here and at other sites and see what people are doing with various figures. Many of them list the figure, the morphs, poses, clothing, hair, textures and whatever they used to create the finished render. Email or IM the artist and ask questions about the products or freebies they've used. Browse freestuff to find what might be useful and try it out. Browse the marketplaces for the products you've seen used. There's no magic to it, just approach it they way you would any other product...but don't buy on impulse, that frequently ends in disappointment.

It's all fun and games...
Until the flying monkeys attack!!!