EClark1894 opened this issue on Mar 09, 2014 · 229 posts
pumeco posted Tue, 11 March 2014 at 3:16 PM
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@Male_M3dia**
I hear what you're saying but the problem I see can be summed up in the first thing you pointed out:
"You know there weren't any teen characters for Gen 4 right?"
I appreciate that you might look to or like to partner with other vendors in order to achive your product goals as a vendor. But whenever there is a shortcoming, there's surely an opportunity for vendors to fill it. I've lost count of how many times people complain about the lack of products available for the Poser figures, and every time I see it, I wonder why they are blind to the opportunity it presents to them.
Who knows, maybe Smith Micro do that intentionally in order to encourage vendored content.
Put it this way, I'm facing the very real prospect of having to become a vendor myself. One the one hand I'm up for the challenge because I like to design. But on the other, I'm dreading it because I have no idea whether the effort involved would even put food on the table (and that's a problem when your income is zero).
Faced with even that situation, I would not consider vending for a DAZ figure before at least vending for a Poser figure. I'm not against DAZ or their figures, I just think that products made for the DAZ figures should be designed and tested strictly for DAZ Studio, and that Poser figure products should be aimed at and designed strictly for Poser.
It cuts out all the cross-app incompatibility concerns, and it cuts the workload on the vendor and doesn't leave the customer ripping their hair out. I decided long ago that if I ever I chose to vend, that any DS-based products will be aimed at and tested strictly for DS, and that Poser-based products will be aimed at and tested strictly for Poser.
DS and Poser should not be fighting it out through content format wars, they should be fighting it out by pulling their acts together, stamping out bugs, and ensuring that their app is the one to go to because it's so stable and has the right features expected of an app designed to work with figures.