Yeah, I just felt that I needed to make my choice between struggling with it and just getting a "brick and mortar" job.  I didn't want to feel that I should make concessions and work on products that don't "move me" artistically.  I suppose I'm just too picky and too independent and the bottom line is that it's not consistently sustainable to do that (work within a niche) and I just felt the best choice was to move on.

On releasing the same thing over and over (jeans or new shirts, etc), when I was doing clothing a lot, I felt that saturation during the V3 cycle.  I can only imagine it's much worse now with the competing apps, figure split, and probably smaller audiences.  From what I see there are less Poser resources online than there used to be, which leads me to believe that generally there is less of a market than it was.  I think the peaks were back when it was new (Poser 4/P4 Propack) and then during Poser 7 (and the new Poser Pro).

Maybe the future will bring bright new things because I do like to be optimistic.  We'll  have to see.

On FiFa, Madden and those franchises... Well cetainly they can release the same thing every year because they have very large fan bases that make it monetarily viable.  When you have hundreds-of-thousands or millions of customers, that you can get into a pattern of yearly installments or DLC, you can do almost anything.  Blizzard could do nothing but release pets and mounts in their online shop for WoW and make unbelievably sick money from it.

One of the three games my wife and I wanted this year we have held off on.  Borderlands 2.  We love the franchise but seeing them drop all this DLC right after the game launches... we are just like.... Hmm.  Think we will just wait for the "Game of the Year" edition.  Otherwise we get sucked into paying $100 for a game, per person.  I mean... nobody's holding a gun to our heads but on the other hand, it's just a game and we can wait. :)  That's saturation on an individual scale too.  I have to stop at a certain point and go... "now hold on just a minute.. this game is $60 and I have to pay $10 for a new class/profession and you want extra for this re-occuring season pass thing... RIIIIIGHT...."

Anyways... that went kind of OT. :D

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