Dale B posted at 5:23PM Tue, 31 December 2019 - #4375146

Even if Bondware fields the perfect figures, they'll have to get the support for it from vendors or they will be yet another entry in the list of viable figures that didn't take off.

Egg, meet chicken. This has been an issue since Dina V came out ('member that one?), or Nude Young Woman (a DAZ production, ironically enough, which shows that they ain't immune to that rule either...) I have a buttload of insanely obscure figures that could be usable... if only they had more than a handful of clothes; Eroko, Alexa 2, Anime Doll, Neftoon Gal, Terai Yuki, Lo-Poly Girl... and a near-literal dozen more just like 'em - and sharecg-dot-com pops out yet another figure every month or so. Some figures like NearMe survive to this day (albeit procurable only by going to e-frontier's site to get one) because it has a buttload of clothing, hair, and texture maps (and folks even make new stuff for it today.)

Apps like WW, Cross-Dresser, and similar does help make a dent in this issue, but that relies on someone with the will and the time to bother maintaining their application. But then again, it ain't just clothing, is it? Textures, hair, weight-mapping, genitals (admit it, you thought of that too), etc etc etc... all the things that the Vickies (and Mikes) have that makes life easier to make stuff with.

(and to be honest, it's not just pretty chicks and studly dudes, y'all. How about some love for the robotic humanoids, a.k.a. Lolobot? That thing is cute as hell, and has a ton of potential... and fantasy creatures could use a bit of love as well.)

So yeah, an entire ecosystem is needed to support any new figure - not just clothing, or hair, or graftable boobs, or skins... all of it and more. Oh, and that figure has to be flexible and morphable enough to look like something entirely different than default, with no trace of having that default look.

Not as easy as it looked before, is it? Bondware is going to have to put a whole lot of 'oomph that I'm not sure it's prepared to pay for, just to fill in those content holes. Prolly why they're being real nice to Hivewire in recent times, methinks.