Any hypothetical new figures would also have to offer significant improvements / features over the current offerings in order to lure a portion of the Poser-buying base over to them.  "Support this figure because DAZ didn't make it" is a lousy marketing strategy -- but it's a strategy that some fall into the trap of thinking is a good one.  And so: they fail -- and they further compound it by also failing to learn or to admit to the realities of the Poser-related marketplace situation as found.  The marketing ideas of some tend to be informed by their own ideologies about what the majority of Poser-content buyers should want, rather than admitting to harsh reality and bowing to the publics own tastes -- the marketplace-reality no-mercy dictatorship of what the buying public actually does want.  The dictatorship of public taste skewers ideology every time that public taste is challenged on ideological grounds.  People just won't buy stuff that they don't want........or that they don't even like in some cases.

Too many people have too much invested in the DAZ figures to be readily persuaded to look elsewhere.  But if anybody can compete with them, CP (SM) can.  Which might just work out to our (the Poser-buying publics) benefit as the two competitors seek to outdo each other.  I don't have a problem with that.

Without solid corporate backing: a hypothetical lone 3rd-party figure creator will have a tough time of it.  They might create a temporary splash, but it won't last.  BTW - I have absolutely nothing whatsoever against 3rd-party figures -- I have a number of 3rd-party figures in my runtime.  When it comes to available figures: the more the merrier, IMO.  Just don't expect to displace Victoria from her position as Queen of the Figure Mountain.  Or even to come close to doing so.......especially if the intended challenger is a male figure.  If you do harbor such expectations: then you'll be sadly disappointed by the results every-single-time.

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