Forum: Community Center


Subject: Members Are Asking The Same Question,

hopeandlove opened this issue on Aug 24, 2015 ยท 30 posts


IceEmpress posted Thu, 27 August 2015 at 10:24 PM

That is very interesting IceEmpress. I would have expected the group posting to be mostly young, or young adults beginning to raise families and opinionated, especially given the way the site is being re-designed with things like Markdown which favors texting. I can understand a vendor skew but otherwise I would have expected the opposite from people posting.
Actually, the age thing is just something I pulled out of my ass for the most part. We know that plenty of younger folks (20's and 30's) use Daz and Poser, but we don't see them on the forums that much (myself being one of the exceptions) The 40~60's age demographic is why the communities at Daz, here, and RDNA aren't a bunch of "LOL omg i gg it" types or immature namecallers, hatemongers, and misogynists. Which for me is a first. (I've been to gaming boards, role-playing boards, Portal of Evil *it was sorta like SA, but more tame and with a "prime directive"), anime boards, I've read posts at trucker boards, programmers sites, and of course the comments at news articles (e.g. BBC) Oh, and Youtube comments. With the exception of trucker boards (which are a lot less volatile than the other examples but still more volatile than Daz/Poser sites), all of these communities range in the late teens to late 30's.
Probably the most important factor is that today's 20-somethings view BBS-type message boards as too "retro". It's all about Youtube comments, twitter feeds, and Facebook, now, and woe to anyone who doesn't allow the uploading of flash videos in their entries!

The rest of the stuff I mentioned in my previous post is what I have been told by Daz PAs. Oh, another difference-- on the forums (on Daz at least), the purchases or at least wishlisting for female vs male clothing is something like 2.5 to 1. However, among overall sales, female stuff sells 4 to 1 over male.

and I think it was true that some of the best executed apparels were lingerie (SP?) oriented, such as those from Hongyu.
Hongyu's Shirt 1 and Cowgirl 3 are the most popular behind the bikinis and Maiden 5 Lingerie, and they're not necessarily skimpwear-- Hongyu's stuff is also popular because it is HIGH QUALITY skimpwear-- with more morphs than you can shake a keyboard at, compared to your average McLingerie that only has character morphs and maybe a "loosen just this one piece of clothing".