Ridley5 opened this issue on Aug 20, 2012 · 283 posts
ssgbryan posted Tue, 21 August 2012 at 11:30 AM
I don't know about that LaurieA. I have been looking closely at genesis - what I am seeing is that the clothing for genesis is either a repeat or a variation of V4 clothing. We are now seeing repeats of characters, hair and shoes. The Gen3 & Gen4 figures were best supported. The market disagrees with you about genesis.
The ability to repackage Gen4 characters, clothing, hair, and shoes for genesis is great for the vendors - I don't see the benefit for the end user. Why should I buy Tauran 2 when I already have Tauran 1, or classic rolled hair for genesis when I have classic rolled hair for V4 or grace pumps for genesis when I have grace pumps for V4, well you get the idea.
And then there is the fact that genesis has been a bust - 1 year after release - when I run a search on the Daz store for genesis clothing I get a total of 283 items. Daz had that much for V4 within 30 days of release.
Content for genesis is spotty at best outside of the Daz store. For example, most of the genesis content here at 'Rosity is made by 1 person, a year after genesis' release.
Which tells me that the vendors have rejected it. Compare the switchover from Gen3 content to Gen4 content with the switchover from Gen4 to genesis. Most Gen3 content disappeared within 6 months, whereas Gen4 content is still going strong.
I know in my case, I have only seen 1 outftit that makes me go "Hmm, maybe I need to spring for the genesis WW plug-in that PhilC made."