Dodger sez
[modified compile of a Trillian conversation in the form of an argument follows]:

To get the Poser community at large to realise that:

a) there are places other than the DAZ store and the RMP that sell Poser content

b) There are places other than the DAZ store that sell GOOD Poser content (the RMP even has some)

c) If someone other than DAZ makes a Poser figure, it doesn't automatically suck

?

I may be venting here a bit, but there's a problem with the dynamic of the community in general and it needs to be addressed...

If someone makes a figure, unless that somoene is the DAZ corporate entity, no one will bother to help by making add-ons. The other merchants and free stuff makers will usually figure it's not worth the time because it won't sell.

But why won't it sell?

Really, let's examine this...

It won't sell because there's no stuff for it.

HEY look, angry bike! (err, vicious cycle).

I know this, you probably know this. Anton sure as $% knows this by now.

Yet we let it happen. We don't bother to make things for the little guy because they won't sell a lot, and then the little guy doesn't have a lot of stuff, so he doesn't sell a lot, so there are less copies of him in circulation, so there are less people who need to buy stuff for him, so there are less sales of stuff for him, so there's a justification to not make stuff for him, even though it's the cause.

I'm not just bitching and whining here, either. I want people's opinions on what figures should have what stuff for them, but NOT DAZ figures. At least not the big popular DAZ figures. Not DAZ Unimesh figures anyway. Other figures. New figures. Other people's figures.

Elle. Apollo Max. Posette. Even HER. The Aeons. Hell, even Grim. Grim there's the classic forgotten guy, even if he IS DAZ.

Why am I [we, all four of us actually] asking this?

Because I'm going to do it my damned self. I will pick a few figures form the response here and champion them. I will address the 'it doesn't have enough stuff' issue with at least one figure and make sure it DOES. Lots. Everything done for anyone that makes sense to convert and new stuff, even textures if need be. Remaps. Morphs. Whatever. And it will be dirt cheap.

The only catch is, if you post here wanting things for someone, you better put your money where your mouth is. Dirt cheap makes that easy, but you're on the honour system and under a public obligation to make the purchase when the stuff arrives.

I think if we work together, we can make this a real honest to god free market rather than an oligopoly like it is now. Screw this big fish crap, screw this little pond crap. The only way our community and market are going to survive in the long run is if they grow. I want a RIVER.

Message edited on: 02/07/2006 14:05

I'm the asshole. You wanna be a shit? You gotta go through ME.