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You're thinking about this wrong. Daz is trying to confuse you with marketing speech. They say you'll get the models 1 day before release. That's impossible. You'll get it on release with this "season pass". It's the rest of us that will have it delayed by one day.
One more thought: with a lot of TV series, the first series is often the best one. It's in the later seasons that everything goes steadily downhill. Having decided on the Season Pass experiment, DAZ will be under pressure to make sure that the first season is full of good stuff (because if the first season is a disappointment then no one except the most dedicated flair-a-holics are going to come back for Seasons 2 and 3). So if you have to buy a Season Pass, I guess now would be the time. It'll be in Seasons 3 and 4 that they'll get lazy and we'll find ourselves looking at Cutesyboo Toodles the Magic Hugz Pixie and Jemima the Identical White Girl.
A season pass wouldn't qualify as a loot box anyway. Loot boxes are randomized packs of stuff, typically with item rarities, that you can buy over and over again in an effort to get "that one thing" you're looking for. Season passes are more like a preorder for a product you know nothing about. It's still scummy, but a different kind of scummy than loot boxes.
I know. But the term 'loot box' keeps cropping up in the thread. Although I did find the terms of the Epic lawsuit interesting for different reasons ('The class action lawsuit alleged that these loot boxes violated state laws and "misrepresented the value of its in-game items."').
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This is an easy pass for me.
I've never bought five consecutive characters released by Daz, not even way back when I was first starting out and didn't have much variety in my runtime. All the other fluff is of even less interest.
So I'm curious, is this an attempt to try and distract attention away from the NFT debacle and not having someone in upper management address even one iota of the concerns customers have about that?
Because if it is, it's not a very good attempt. Like, at all.
@JasonGalterioo, thanks for enumerating your reasoning so clearly, it gives another aspect to the comments in this thread. Looking at your reasoning, relative to your stated circumstances, in your case it looks like a marginal decision to me, with not a lot to loose & possibly something to gain. If everyone considers their conditions so clearly, I wonder how many would come to the same decision?
Regards,
Richard.
This has been in the works for a long time. They had sent a poll to Platinum Club users a year or more ago asking about interest in some of these features.
The idea that you have to pay $100 more for the same thing because you couldn't get in early is just disgusting. People are finding it hard to justify the $150 for unknown content but really according to Daz it's worth at least $250 and we are getting an early adopter discount. The FOMO is strong! sigh
The Daz Season Pass is something new here, so I decided to give it a try this once before I could change my mind. I do think it is about $50 over-priced, and it would be a better deal if it was $99 for PC+ Members.
I know that I may not like all the included characters, but I do like that Daz is trying new ideas. The season pass also says you receive "exclusive live tutorials" but it would be nice to also receive some exclusive products.
I hope it is worth the investment, but if not, then this will be my last time with the season pass. I think one thing that we can all agree on, is that we are all big fans of Daz Studio and we all want to see it continue to evolve.
I had that thought, too.
+100. We will see and decide...
The promo page says that Season Pass holders will get the models "the day before their release".
One day lead time isn't enough to beta test figures. Based on past performance, it might not even be enough time to correct any obvious errors with the package (e.g. missing texture maps etc).
So whatever the intention, I'm pretty sure it's not to turn Season Pass holders into guinea pigs. I tend to believe that it is, as the promo suggests, simply one more incentive for Season Pass buyers. It doesn't seem like a very compelling incentive to me, but it might carry more weight with people who want to enter the render contests and could benefit from a day's "head start".
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This is seriously overpriced for compeltely unknown content. Loot boxes have nothing on this. With them, at least one knowns what is possible content. This is effectively lottery with undeclared winnings.
As for amount spent, I am on completely different level:
Full Price Value: $1,102,394.00
Current Value: $79,452.81
Total Spent: $14,810.25
I guess I am the deal hunter. (It does feel like I spend eternity trying to get maximum out of various offers...)
got me again. maybe DAZ needs quick cash influx for something, like buying NFTs. Too many games here, with the sales, and now the last two game busters. Like many have stated, they need to fix things and get their QC in order before game time. "
Back to the fishing hole.
It would help to actually SEE the stuff we're buying ahead of time?
At least DESCRIBE the new base models AHEAD of time for once?
Like... this is a visual arts hobby. Asking us to spend a not-inconsiderable amount of money on stuff we can't see yet is borderline abusive of your customers.
If this is a shiny for the minority of people who buy pretty much everything and still have money to spend, then okay, I guess it makes sense.
Personally, I am picky with what figures I buy. The odds of any random five figures all being ones I would purchase are practically nil.
I don't care about forum flair.
I don't care about the contest.
I don't care about early access. (Though as someone pointed out above, it isn't really early access, but delayed access for everyone who doesn't buy in. And that's fine, I can wait.)
I don't want a random package of items. WIth my luck I'll end up with a bus stop, a bathroom, some tile shaders, and a hair that either a) looks like ten other hairs I already have or B) is so unique and immmutable that it sticks out like a sore thumb.
Tutorials/Training are great, but quality and usefulness are big questions marks. Unspecified tutorials don't get my interest.
TLDR for me personally this is as big a miss as NFTs. Nothin' but nope.
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That might be true, but the timing of it's announcement/release is very, very, very sus.
Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
I've been a Daz customer for a few years, PC+ for most of them. Not as old as other users, yet here I am, considering the need to prove my bona fides?
I'll just say, "Okay, boomer."
The game, I understand.
The criticism is that it's more abusive than prior games here.
The hobby is visual arts.
This funds extraction game? Seems less fun due to the increasing levels of information disparity between Daz and its user base.
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