What most don't realize is that the majority of the people in the community (DS & Poser), only want to load premade content, pose premade content and then hit render. At it's heart DS has always been a free player for these people, which is one of the reasons SM released Debut, a cut down version of Poser with most of the tools removed/blocked that these people avoid/ignore in the full version.

It's these people that make a figure popular, if that figure has a lot of content available at release then it will do well, especially if more and more content appears each month. DAZ have known this pretty much from the start, after all their company was built on selling content for their figures, unlike everybody else they actually commission vendors to make content for their figures, just so they have content available at launch.

This is why most other figures fail, little to no premade content available, now for most of you diehards that isn't an issue, WW, XD or the new fitting room, but for the majority that's scary sh*t and something to avoid, so they stick to what they know.