@ssgbryan
Thanks, but I should have exaplained better, I meant I was curious how many third party figures there are.  Just recently I keep seeing quite a few pop-up and I've never even heard of them or seen them promoted in any way at all.

I only see one by accident or when someone asks something about one on the forum.

There are lots of them - they are launched & then the vendors ignore them and customers ignore them because the vendors ignore them.  Unless of course, one has later versions of Poser - Clothing has been decoupled from figures, so today and piece of clothing can go on any figure.  I have a lot of V4 content that has never been on a V4.

Nah, I'm going to blame the customers on this one, along with the creators of the figure. Say what you like about the Poser natives, Poser, no matter who the owners were, always gave you clothing for them to start you off, or at least a way to make more clothing for them. Most third party figures only release the figure, usually with no clothes and you never hear much from them again. Now why would a vendor support something like that? Meanwhile, most customers have never heard of the figure. One of the more successful third party figures for me was Mayadoll. I remember when I first downloaded her, there were a lot of free clothes and hair and props for her on her web sight. And frankly, I actually liked her better than V2 which I hardly evver used and in some ways I  think she was as good as V3.

 Of course, that's just my two cents.