PC+ worth it?

Mistara

the 2 month waiting period on the pa coupie kills the joy for me.  cant use it on Vlad for 2 whole months.

Noah LGP

Don't forget the monthly coupons, the weekly free items and 30% off on DO items (Including New Releases and Pro Bundles).

 

tsarist

I used to be monthly starting in 2004 or 2005 until one day I got an offer (in an email, I think) offering me a year at 1/2 off. I bought it and rarely looked back.

You do save money. There are often deep discounts during sales.

The weekly freebies are a nice perk and a few of them are actually useful.

I truly think the worst thing the club ever did was move away from $1.99 pricing for PC+ items. I let my membership lapse for a few months over that fiasco.

The monthly coupon is nice but not as handy as it used to be. Before you could spend it on anything. Now you get 2 coupons. One for Daz Originals & the other for other store items as long as you spend $18. This move was widely panned, but it went ahead anyway.

Some months it's quite a chore to use that Daz Original coupon because you can't use it on a PC+ item.

Daz Jack Tomalin

tsarist said:

I truly think the worst thing the club ever did was move away from $1.99 pricing for PC+ items. I let my membership lapse for a few months over that fiasco.

I will say that without the new pricing, the selection of content in the PC would be massively different.. and not for the better.

A personal example, sets of mine like Winterblack Tower, etc.. there is no way they could be sold for 1.99 - so in that universe, it would never been in the PC... just a regular full-price item. The same goes for a lot of content, the higher pricing gives us so much more opportunity to acquire bigger products.

xyer0

If, when, why, what. How much have you got? Have you got it together? If so, how often? Which do you prefer: A hard or soft option?

Sempie

I think it is all a matter fo what you want.

I used to be a PC member until late 2009.

Then I got into a difficult financial time, hardly invested in assets any more until somwhere late 2006.

Never made the switch to DAZ Studio or any Genesis generation, stuck with Poser and DAZ generation 4. And still haven't got a large budget. (Something like $40 per month between Renderosity and here - no Pro Bundles for me, or any sales where you have to invest a lot to get any discounts...)

I rejoined the PC club - on a quarterly base -when I recently won a coupon in a contest here. $24 for the membership, $24 worth of coupons for May alone; seemed like a very good deal, it already paid itself back..Still have some PC+ items on my wishlist to clear. A few remaining Poser-compatible sets. (Thanks Jack Tomalin, thanks David Brinnen and some others for still catering for us every now and again).How long I will remain in the PC is entirely a matter of how long it wil benefit me.

I think the question is a personal one: will I get more out of it than I invest?

 

As for Jack Tomalin's post, it's always this thin line.

The line between what the assets are worth (more than you're charging; I worked a a 2D animator among 3D modelers, riggers, etc, I have a fair notion of the amount of work involved) and what I can personally afford (Lots less than the assets are worth),  $1,99 is a steal and probably a crying shame compared to the work involved. Even $4,99 or $7,99. Unfortunately, it's also all that I can afford....

Sevrin

I consider it worthwhile.  I also consider the 30 bucks on Rendo Prime pays for itself with Prime pricing and the occasional Flash Prime item.  I only celebrated my Daz Cake Day a this past weekend, so there's that.

For someone who's new to Daz I'd consider it kind of a must-have, at least for a year or two.

lilweep

if you dont have PC+, Daz will tell you how much you will save at checkout by having it.  So you can just subscribe to it at checkout.

Usually if you're just buying even 1 daz original product, you will save money having PC+.  To say nothing of the additional freebies etc.