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Male vs. Female content

Oso3DOso3D Posts: 15,095
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In another battle of the neverending conflict, I was annoyed that I felt forced to buy Edit Hair for G2F... I was going to get it for G2M to show solidarity and encourage male content, but, of course, G2M was priced higher than G2F.

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  • SorelSorel Posts: 1,416

    Well, the G2F version was just released, so it is of course, on sale.

  • ermullensermullens Posts: 93

    This is kind of a bed of our own making and,businesses tend to capitalize on it maximize profit wile minimizing costs,from 3d software, video games to clothing don't think it can all be attributed to there being less male things.females have and still are sexualized and unfortuantely seems to be getting at a younger age.i think it more of less interest, by males in creating male only art, which can be seen in other areas, Modelling agency Model Mayhem, has said that they get thousands of female apps for a shoot but when advertising for males get almost nothing,

  • Oso3DOso3D Posts: 15,095
    edited December 2015

    It's a feedback loop. Just pointing out one of the little unintended ways the feedback is maintained.

    What's frustrating is that the vendor is going to look at my sales as confirming the interest in female product, when honestly I would have bought whichever hair is cheaper and fit it cross-gender as needed.

    This is part of my greater frustration that I fear vendors react to bad information about what people want because of other factors.

     

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  • ScavengerScavenger Posts: 2,674

    I think the bigger issue should be there's 3 full priced versions of the same thing, G3F/G2F/G2M.  As there's a lot of hairs out there that's one package for all three versions, it doesn't appear to be a huge difference (and that there's one texture pack for all versions says the geometry's the same)..this feels awfully double dippy to me.

  • Oso3DOso3D Posts: 15,095

    Applying the G2F to a G2M model, it seems to autofit without any glitches whatsoever. So at least G2M/F there's pretty much 0 reason to buy both. I MIGHT do so if there was a bundle that was a dollar or two more than one price, but... enh.

     

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 109,273

    The male version isn't more expensive than the female - they have the saem base price. The female version, being new, is on intro sale - the male version had the same discount when it was new.

  • HavosHavos Posts: 5,622

    Personally I would never buy a hair for more than one model. Autofit works very well on the whole with hairs, so I am happy to move them between generations, or genders.

  • Oso3DOso3D Posts: 15,095
    Richard : and that's missing the forest for the trees.
  • jakibluejakiblue Posts: 7,281

    what annoys me is that I bought the Edit Hair for G3F, and the "Colours for Edit Hair" which is the texture add on pack - and while the base hair has Iray materials, the add on does NOT. 

    That does not compute. 

  • vwranglervwrangler Posts: 4,989
    jakiblue said:

    what annoys me is that I bought the Edit Hair for G3F, and the "Colours for Edit Hair" which is the texture add on pack - and while the base hair has Iray materials, the add on does NOT. 

    That does not compute. 

    I brought that up in the Club forum. The response was that the artist didn't do Iray materials when the product was originally made, and while they caught that for the base hair, it was missed in the add-on, so they'll be correcting that.

    The SKU for Edit Hair for G2F indicates that it was made at the same time as the G2M version, which I bought six months ago when it came out. The SKU for the G3F version indicates that it came into inventory much more recently.

    The add-on -- at least at the moment -- doesn't mention Iray materials on the product page, and does specifically mention 3Delight materials.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 26,507

    After purchasing Slosh's great UHT Iray hair shader, I have never purchased another hair color pack.

  • Oso3DOso3D Posts: 15,095
    Barbult: I was trying not to say that, but yeah. That and Unshaven 2 for fiber type hair.
  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 109,273
    timmins.william said:
    Richard : and that's missing the forest for the trees.

    Well, you are saying that you are worried that the vendor will see poorer sales from the relatively expensive male version - but they've already seen the sales from the male version on first releease (or not, sine this would be a buyout and it would be the PC team tracking sales, not the creator). Any comparisons will be made between matching periods, not original release period to undiscounted back-catalogue sales.

  • Oso3DOso3D Posts: 15,095

    ... yeah, fair enough, I'm wrong there. ;)

     

  • jestmartjestmart Posts: 4,449

    I just know DAZ is going to hate me for this.  They are both short hair styles that look identical, don't buy both, buy one and parent it to the figue's head instead of Fit To-iing it.

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,704

    I have the male version. It is ok. I tend to use other styles more

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