Oh, "marketing," my ass.  DAZ never did any real "marketing" in its life.  What it did do was come out with figures that were superior to any others available to Poser users, and since they were superior, they became "the" figures-- and DAZ just proceeded to capitalize on that and continue improving its figures.

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Apollo?  Please-- that thing is what, seven or eight years old at least?  I bought it in the very early days, when it was at RDNA-- $50, down the tubes-- just to see what was so "revolutionary" about it.  Well, surprise, surprise--- nothing was.  Yeah, some of the joints were rigged a little better than M3's (no big feat), and it had an extra section in the torso, and the toes were fully poseable (which is mostly "overkill")-- but that hardly added up to REVOLUTIONARY!!!  And there were things about it that were totally lame, like the half-modeled teeth and the horrible topology on the back.  For a one-man effort, it was pretty good... but it wasn't "revoluntionary," and it certainly can't hold a candle to M4.  Or to-- dare I say the G-word?-- Genesis.

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It really all comes down to one question:  Is the figure superior to M4/V4?  If not, then forget it.  It's not going to catch on, it's not going to become popular enough to attract the support of "serious" vendors, and it's just going to languish in the same little backwater limbo into which so many other figures have sunk.

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Yes, THIS !  ^

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Yeah, it's a nice little myth:

"I swears, it was just the evil DAZ marketing machine that crushed the tender blossom of the Poser figures in their youth. We never had a chance. Oh the horror, our struggle for freedom again thwarted by DAZ' innate wickedness."

Problem is, it ain't true.

The Poser figures sucked, do suck, and will continue to suck.

Both aesthetically and technically.

And even those that didn't suck completely, still sucked more than any DAZ mesh ever sucked before in the recorded history of the Poserverse.

 

As for those hoping for a return of the God of Pudgyness, AKA Asspollo, puhleeze:

He couldn't even compete against M3, who surely wasn't one of DAZ masterpieces.

Asspollo's anal cavity might be purely virtual, but it's still a bad idea holding your nose too close to it. It might cloud your vision and give you funny thoughts.  :-)

 

 

 

 

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