karanta opened this issue on Oct 08, 2016 ยท 57 posts
Razor42 posted Sat, 08 October 2016 at 9:57 PM
Honestly I'm not sure what opinions on Daz 3D's character releases for the Genesis 3 figure range have to do with a question regarding market demand for Pauline products? Seems a little like flame baiting to me? Which seems to be allowed here as long as it's only directed in one direction. Anyways...
@karanta if your curious as to the market demand for Pauline content in the Renderosity Marketplace, I would suggest starting at the Whats Hot page here and see how many products for Pauline are making it into the top selling products list. This is pretty much the clearest market data indicator available as to what is currently selling based on platform/figure base and works like a leader board of the number of product sales. You can change the data capture range from weekly to Now, Monthly, Yearly.1+ Year and 3+ Years to check trends across time.
I did a quick count out of the** top 40 selling products** in the weekly range compiling into a figure base split. These were the results.
Multi figure(Including Genesis 3,V4 & Pauline): 1 Product
Victoria 4: 7 Products
Genesis 3: 25 Products
Non figure specific: 7 Products
The statistics indicate there may be some demand for Pauline items but that it's fairly safe to say that demand is still lower than current demand for Victoria 4 items and is a long way behind the demand for Genesis 3 content, at least here in the Renderosity Market place. Looking at longer term trends for example the 1+ Year in the WHATS HOT list there is not a single Pauline product listed and again Genesis 3 products are clearly the dominant figure in demand over the longer term ranges.
I also checked the New Release section and there have been a few products for Pauline released around the same time as the other items that are currently in the Weekly Whats Hot list but they seem to of failed to make it into the list themselves, when put against the other products sales. This may indicate fairly low demand for Pauline products at least in comparison to the products aimed at other figures in the market.
If you want to add an additional data indicator you can also look at Free Stuff Section which has a Most Wanted and Trending Now section which would also give an indicator as to the Market demand based on supported figure and a quick look there today would seem to directly correlate the above numbers, with a heavy demand for Genesis 3 content from the Free Stuff down loaders here.
But I would encourage you to develop for whichever figure you do enjoy creating content for, especially if the monetary return is not your number 1 priority. And I am sure if you do choose to support Pauline you would find a niche group that would be very happy to see that content support provided for her.