Ok this is becoming entirely offensive on numerous levels, and political issues are never allowed, especially when they have nothing to do with the original thread topic. 

I know, I'm probably mostly to blame for that one. I didn't think about the political spin-off that could spawn from it.

 

The topic resurfaces every few months and the same opinions get bantered around usually by the same people, and nothing is ever resolved, because there's really nothing to resolve.

Here's the thing: Everyone has their own opinions on why/why not with male figures. None of them are right or wrong. 

Just because you don't see men rendered in the galleries as often as the females, doesn't mean they aren't being used or that the content doesn't sell enough to make it profitable. 

There are male character sets here in the MP that have been there for years, so obviously there is enough interest in male figures to keep - for example THIS SET  - selling regularly enough for it not to have been dropped from Renderosity's product catalog in over 8 years. 

One set, for P6 James no less, that has consistently sold in this MP for 8 years? That's nearly 2 years older than the oldest set I can find for M3. That doesn't sound like a waste of time to me at all. It tells me that 1 - there's enough interest in at least that particular male figure and 2, it's a well-crafted product that people enjoy. It's not even on clearance.

And that's what it all boils down to - how good the product is. If its obvious that the artist put real effort into producing the best quality they could, then people will buy it. If it's something that's slapped together in a weekend then that will be quite obvious and most people likely won't buy it. 

 

At any rate, keep it on topic or I'm locking the thread. NO MORE POLITICS.

Now I gotta go clean up the mess I caused.

 

~Shane