Poser vendors have 2 main problems:

1. Not knowing which Poser figure to use

There's a bigger market for Genesis 8 and Genesis 9 than there are for the Poser characters. 

I don't think there has ever been universal adoption of any Poser character by the Poser community since V4. They've all been a little hit and miss. And as Crystalis mentioned, you need to pay for the Poser characters, whereas the base Genesis characters are free and come with enough content to create a promo image. So in my position as a content creator, I don't own the "paid" Poser characters, and I don't know which free Poser characters are popular enough to create content for - so I just don't create content for Poser characters. It's too risky - you can spend two weeks creating something and have 1 sale.  

I don't have any stats on how popular La Femme 2 is - but she's too expensive for me to risk buying her - I won't get my money back. And I wouldn't use her for any reason other than content creation.

2. Daz is easier

Daz has developed systems and features for content creation. They can show 2-sided meshes, and it's easy to parent props and collapse a series of parented props. 

Daz auto exports the geometry files - you still need to do that manually in Poser.

Daz has an option not to overwrite thumbnails. Poser does not have that option.

Poser has a massive bug with their drag and drop feature (it doesn't disable) so I'm forever frustrated by my screen being dragged somewhere  - and I never want it to drag anywhere. I have no issues with Daz.

So to re-ignite the Poser market I would say you'd need to:

1. Offer vendors free upgrades on Poser software.

2. Give vendors the main characters for free.

3. Talk to the Poser development team to make things easier for vendors.

4. Talk to Poser customers and find out what they want - then tell the vendors.

5. Increase Poser's market share by promoting the software (For example, I wrote an article here on why game developers should use Poser (or Daz) and not AI - but it's published here and not on game development sites.)

As to the "how much" question - that depends where the vendor lives. Dollars go a lot further in Africa and South America than they do in USA and Europe.

I use Unity. The general rule is the lower the polycount the faster it will render, the better your game will run.

But you can also get around that by having fewer objects in the scene or streamlining your code etc.

And if you're developing for mobile vs PC vs game console there are different rules. Developers tend to develop for multiple markets simultaneously. For example, if I'm developing for mobile and PC, my assets must work on mobile, but still look good on PC. Alternatively, they'll use version control systems to duplicate the assets - select a low poly asset for mobile and a higher poly count for PC. 

Things should be in pieces - rather than a room full of furniture, you'd need a room and furniture. The developer will select what they need for each platform, based on what that platform can handle (mobile will have fewer items - pc will have more items).

Look at the unity and unreal asset stores and you'll get a good idea of what's popular, and the polycounts.

Have you ever Googled that verse to make sure you don't remember it from some book?!

And by Googled I mean - use Bing to search for it :-).

Why did the women kick Santa?

Santa had called her a hoe three times.

Once upon a time you got pretty Christmas cards in the mail to display.

Nowadays, it’s hard to display WhatsApp forwards in quite the same way.

Grandma's house: haunted, they're all dead.

My house: fresh summer salads - eat your heart out Northern hemisphere!

Twinkle twinkle little star.

Oh, if only the lights stayed on, I wouldn't need to twinkle.

Jingle Bells Jingle Bells, jingle all the way.

Is it fun for the horse when you ride in a one-horse open sleigh?

What did the silly snowman say to the other snowman?

I can’t wait for summer!

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Why are there no snowwomen?

Women don’t stand around doing nothing all day!

Ever get the impression the North Pole is run like a large corporation?

The elves do all the work and Santa gets all the credit.

Thank you. I resubmitted the correct image.

Is it possible to delete the entry I just submitted ( about 10 minutes ago?) I uploaded the wrong image. I'll resubmit the right image.

There's something wrong with Santa. 

He gives the kids with rich parents the best gifts and almost nothing to the poor kids.

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"These chocolates taste funny."

Hey kid, stop eating the reindeer poop.

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Do you remember the good old days when you asked for a mouse?

And meant a small furry creature.

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Santa magic

Breaking into someone's home and not getting shot.

When you’ve had a hard life and been homeless…

Then every day you wake up in your new forever home is Christmas.

The worst job to have in the southern hemisphere?

Dressing up like Santa in the middle of summer.

Christmas. 

The only time of year we allow small children to sit on strangers’ laps.

Dear Santa, I know I haven’t always believed.

But if you make one of my games go viral this Christmas, I’ll believe in you forever.