Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Why aren't male figures more popular?

EClark1894 opened this issue on Apr 16, 2014 · 474 posts


shante posted Fri, 08 August 2014 at 5:08 PM

The branding of their products was their name and the quality they created products with. If you are not familiar with it check them out. They have always creted the best stuff for Poser figures.

They use to be long time content providers here. THen left.

They were at DAZ and didn't like the way DAZ worked distribution of funds for their products and so left there. It was there that the male clothing stuff was on sale. When they left all product would leave with them. All you could Dl was the items you already had paid for. Here was the same problem.

They were at RDNA for a while and then left. In the past couple of years they've returned to DNA and are still fairly successful merchants. THey also returned to DAZ where they are now creating content for Genesis.

Miki was never a figure I liked. There was something about her body shape I didn't much care for. Having a mile high and mile deep foot fetish never liking her feet shape, though i did get Mikki1 & 2 as well as Terrai Yuki(?) after seeing them in action, I deleted them and put them out to pasture along with hundreds or thousands of other pieces of unused Poser content.

I have learned through the years for the work I do to just stick to those figures DAZ has put out which again for my use, have been the "prettiest" and nicer to work with. I know not everyone agrees but as  said, For my tastes and way of working DAZ has consistently offered pretty good product abd support (and you can NOT beat the unquesioning Money Back Guarantee either, come on who else offerst that!). Also, product support in the community has been it difficult to turn away from them.

Quote - > Quote -   I remember when AerySoul, AsShanim, etc came onto the Poser content scene the work they did for our Vicky figures was incredible. They got numerous requests to create the same quality fantasy work for Michael and tried it but stopped after the first attempt because it just did NOT sell. Now their content was no less than GREAT and took a lot of work and thought getting it to that point so I can imagine they would have liked getting compensated for that effort properly. When they didn't they just stopped creating content for the Mike figures. I picked up that one attempt at DAZ and it was sweet. But never saw any such work ever available again. Not worth their effort! Can't blame them.

The same problem from other just as creative content creators indicates the endemic issue of lack of interest in guy images. Period. So why put the effort into it.

I never saw that item - can't buy what isn't for sale.  Once a vendor makes a product for sale, there is no point in pulling it - you never know when someone will pick it up.  I am still buying (and hunting down) Miki 1 content I missed when she first rolled out the door. - She works a hell of a lot better in Poser 2014/Mac Pro setup than she did on a Poser 6/G3 PowerMac setup.  Speaking of Miki 1......

There is still a Miki 1 product for sale here at 'Rosity, that hasn't gone into clearance - which means it is still selling (She is a good character btw) on a regular basis.

1 item in and of itself won't build demand. That is the kind of short term thinking that kills vendors.  I think that is the problem - every vendor expects a homerun out of the box - and is aggressively uninterested in building demand.