It costs the broker next to nothing to run with an item. If it sells, great, if not, no big deal. Having a hundred types of hooker wear for V4 is of no issue to the broker, it's competition between the vendors.

True, but it could cost them sales in the long run if the bulk of what the customers see on every page is hooker wear for V4. And I think M4's clothes look like that because his shoulders look like that.

I think really, if you want to see more content available for other figures then you just have to take the time and make more content for those other figures. Then put it up for sale and see how well it does. Then you might get a better idea of why most vendors don't make content for that figure. Or you might get surprised and find a market that pays well that a lot of vendors are ignoring due to assumptions. But you won't really know until you try.

Part of the problem with this thread is my poor wording of the original post.  When I suggested  that vendors  be "encouraged" to diversify, I wasn't suggesting a limitation be placed on their creativity. But I also agree, who needs 134 types of bra and panty sets or sexy schoolgirl costumes? To be fair, Genesis, as far as the DAZ figures goes, pretty much makes the argument moot anyway, except along gender lines, which is more along where I was leaning. Also, in my mind at least, I was wondering what the effect  would be among sales if, vendors were limited to specific categories and genres. I'm just saying that if you have 20 vendors creating sci-fi props and clothings versus 50, those 20 stand to make more money if there's less competition. And if DAZ had filled it's quota of 20 vendors doing sci-fi clothing, you could always try RDNA, or Renderosity, or Hivewire, etc.