Quote - But if SM had commissioned you and some other content creators to make a bigger variety of items for Miki4 and Tyler ready to be launched alongside the release of the figures then that wouldn't have mattered. You would've got your money, customers would have a decent starter wardrobe, SM would've proved themselves prepared to stand behind their figures and give them solid support. That's what I'm attempting to suggest is SM's missed opportunity.... but apparently I'm not typing in English today?

i think you are missing the point, and with all due respect your expectations are very unrealistic.

i cant speak for Miki since i know little more about her than most of you, but with regards to Tyler, he is a FREE fix/polish for Ryan 2.  he resurrects a runtime figure that most people had written off and gives people more options and more characters to play with in their Poser scenes. he was never meant to dethrone figures like M4 - the entire notion is absolutely absurd.

before any 3rd party can topple the stranglehold customers and merchants have enabled V4 and M4 to have over the market, it will have to be fully compatible out of the box with the gigabytes of legacy clothing that virtually all customers are tethered to.  that will require a massive overhaul of the cloth room/dynamics and an abandonment of the obsession with this archaic .cr2 hack that we currently call 'conforming'.

in the meantime the tools are right there for customers who are willing to devote more than '1-click' to fitting clothing to their figures. theres dynamics, morphing clothes, wardrobe wizard, the morphing tool, freebie clothing fits, fitting magnets, etc at everyones disposal.  most people stubbornly refuse to even try them.