_Lets say I make a female character for DAZ Studio. I couldn't sell my female at DAZ.com and I see DAZes advertisement every where. DAZ has multiple female characters with multiple venders supporting them and auto fit so any out fit fits any DAZ female.

So if I made a DAZ female character.it would be as noticeable as one drop of water in a hurricane.

I have no doubt DAZ Knows they have a monopoly on DAZ Poser characters and would War to keep it. Not that I wouldn't do the same.

Every one talks about this vendor or that vendor stop supporting Poser. Really the only vendor that mattered was DAZ.DAZ leaving Poser just says it all don't it.

Now DAZ have left Poser. but DAZ built there empire making Poser characters. So could another build there empire making Poser characters ? you no longer have DAZ as a competitor for Poser characters.

So what do you think ,could another build a Poser characters Empire ?_

Why could you not sell a new figure at Daz? Because they do their own? Well as I have said before Daz is pretty pragmatic and if someone brought them an amazing figure and there was a way to blend it into the work flow studio users expect I think they would snap it up. They would save all that R&D time for one thing. Do I think they would plop some stand alone figure in the store and hope it got support? Not so much, because that would just be sad for the creator and they are not inclined to set people up to fail.

If Daz still has a monopoly on characters for Poser there is absolutely no one to blame but SM. If customer base numbers are not where they should be to keep Poser in the lead there is no one to blame but SM. SM should have been as aware of market changes as any of us. They could have addressed the lack of content on their part years ago. They even had a brokerage that they could have really leveraged but decided not to. Instead they have pretty much rested on resale of Poser to existing users and let the rest go hang.

I fully understand them not wanting to hitch to Daz's wagon. After all if that really worked out well there would be no Studio and we wouldn't be talking about any of this. But the minute they deiced they could forgo the new Daz line of characters they needed to get a machine going to produce their own with full support and start out of market advertising to build user numbers back up. If they were not going to depend on Daz character content any more then they needed to have competing characters, and support for them in place before that version of Poser even hit the shelves. And they needed to put as much or more effort into driving in new poser users as Daz has done with studio for the last few years. If they didn't have the money to invest in all of that they needed to seriously consider making the newer Daz figures usable natively in Poser.

Could another empire be built on poser characters? Maybe, but it would be load of work and would require some heavy cash investments from the start. Don't forget that for over 10 years sales of those characters has also been to studio users. And for at least the last 5 those sales have been at least 50% of those sales. With the numbers shifting more grammatically away from Poser over the last 3 years. So to build an empire on just poser characters someone would have to drive a huge user increase and to do that they would have to do marketing catch up which would cost money. And then of course they would have to have a compelling, cutting edge, and well supported day one (by themselves and by a score of content creators) character that would pull money out of pockets from the day of release and not slow down. Unless someone wins the lottery I am not holding my breath on that happening.

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