isikol opened this issue on Sep 23, 2012 ยท 292 posts
monkeycloud posted Tue, 16 October 2012 at 11:16 AM
Yup... I have some of that stuff in Deecey's list. My dilema is that not everything is what I want...least not right now. I have wishlisted all of it.
If merchants only make a bit of underwear, and then that's all that they will sell.
Do they all think, "those undercrackers sold pretty well, better make some more"?
Do they think Blackhearted has shifted a lot of underwear, we should make more of that?
Sure I bought the undercrackers... but largely because Blackhearted made them and I know they'll be good.
But really I, personally, want more stuff that I can use in historical contexts, whether that's baroque, Victorian, 1920s, 1930s, 1950s... or contemporary street scenes too. Or sci-fi battle scenes.
There's a dirth of that stuff here. Renapd's Napoleonic sets, of which I own the lot, are one exception.
Daz have a fair choice of period costumery... and would appear to be shifting it. They do seem to coordinate their releases... it's all quite 1950s over there the last while, in terms of historical gear.
Other folk will want more fantasy gear, that's not so much my thing... for the most part... to date. But if I had an idea on those lines, it would be.
But a lot of the time what makes me get something too is how well made it looks, and how good the promo render is... I'll be honest. But there's a limit. That limit is probably one set of nicely made underwear per character
I appreciate the difficulties for vendors...
At the same time, looking at past sales, for themselves and each other, is probably not the way to go... not as the only means of market research. It is self re-enforcing, isn't it?
I don't doubt that Blackhearted knows the market better than that... but its the vendors following what he is doing... looking at his output and associated sales... and nothing else, that stimmy it, I suspect?