Jumpstartme please bear with me as I wind up this debate. :)

Penguinisto, I applaud your dilligence above :)   If I were Anton, as I was silly enough to put it - or any other figuremaker for that matter - I'd consider myself almost warned off of  making any alternate figures. I do admit that  my statement: "He'd make a mint!" is based on hunch rather than a proper business plan.

    Quote - Masha :"There'd be hundreds if not thousands of ppl happy to pay for his efforts - he'd make a mint!"

    Quote Penguinisto:
    "...but that's another reason why I went to the trouble of posting the stats up there. V3 base is free. A3 base is free. V4 base will soon be free - if history is any indication at all, that is. Good luck going up against that, no matter who you are. AM's own history is proof positive of this."

Well, Daz figures have been  aggressively and very cleverly building up a market  for years with a huge user base already established with the early Vickies that came natively with Poser3 and 4,( not to mention the great  add-on support of their characters by them as well as associate contributors),  and yes to beat them at the marketing level would take a bit of doing no matter who one is.  

But who made this a competition - as in "going up against that"?  Not moi.   Just a goodly chunk of  market share would earn big I reckon.  (Very un-business-like I know ;)

And then again I see no "proof positive" of "AM's own history" above, just a 'sort-of'  history of user postings at Rendo's gallery.  It indicates something but there's a difference dontcha know.

    Quote Penguinisto: "You (and everyone else) need a solid business case for this if you want to justify the work (and the reason cannot be simply to spite DAZ/RO/RDNA/etc... "

Gosh, I for one have no beef whatever and use all these sites and their products with pleasure.  I trust these are not  assumptions  and judgements again.

At any rate Penguinisto our simulating debate has run it's course and is veering way off - and before Jumpstartme jumps on me, I bid you audieu and a pleasant night's sleep.

Cheers,
Masha