One thing I don't understand is why the DAZ store doesn't have more content for their Poser compatible figures by outside merchants. Looking at the New Releases showed only one pose pack for V4/M4 without anything for Genesis. The disparity between what the DAZ store is selling versus what everybody else is selling seems to point to either a mandate or massive incentives for third parties to create Genesis content. There would probably be a legal nondisclosure statement to prevent outside discussions of such things. Without any edicts from DAZ, one would expect that more third party content creators would be marketing Gen4 figure content in similar proportions to other stores. DAZ Original content may focus on Genesis, but other content creators in the store would normally produce content that they think will sell. If outside creators are being forced to produce content for the DAZ store that won't sell as well as what they could make elsewhere, the natural thing is going to be for them to seek other stores for their wares. I'm not paying enough attention to the market to know if that kind of exodus has happened.

 

Ok...this one was just funny.

The idea that DAZ can "force" pa's to make content for one or another figure LOL

PA's are a stubborn and head strong bunch, can't really force us one way or another.

Maybe instead of the paranoid conspiracy idea of why there is so much genesis content being offered at DAZ is simply because it is pretty easy to create for once you have figured out how to do so...and it sells well enough to continue developing for it. The m4/v4 market is saturated with products, there really is not much new and interesting that can be done for them without repeating things already in the market. But genesis is a new start, and with it, the products that get made can be used on many more figure shapes than could ever be used before, so the things made wont get out of date near as fast as anything made before.

The reason other stores are only begining to see some genesis stuff is also very simple. It takes a while for content creators to learn a new system for making things...and many content creators flatly refuse to take the time to learn new stuff, even moreso than content users have a tough time trying to use new programs in place of the old one they are so used to.

Change is hard...but it is also good.