Is DAZ Studio not free any more?
Pixelboy
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I found this on the DAZ Site today. $ 174.97 for DAZ Studio 4.9????
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Should still be free with registration.
If you click on it it doesn't take you to an actual store page, instead it goes th this page https://www.daz3d.com/get_studio where you can register and get it free.
Still $175 is a great price for what it can do !!!
Who thinks these things up?
If I were a noob and saw virtually everywhere that it was free and then came to DAZ and saw it was $174.97 discounted from $249.95, I'd think whomever was saying it was free was either delusional or spouting old outdated information... I'd say "nice, but get stuffed" and move on... All these weird little gimmicks confuse and put people off.
Back when I was a teenager, in NYC there was a chain of electronics stores that went by the name of "Crazy Eddie" (Crazy Eddie, his prices are INSAAAAAAAANE!...The original Saturday Night Live actually did a parody of them)... You never knew what was going on with their sales, there were always some sort of shenanigans and loopholes and caveats and whatnots... In the end, even if you got the sale price and the item promised, you still couldn't help feeling you probably got screwed somehow. Maybe you did, maybe you didn't, that time... But the point was it never inspired consumer confidence. And eventually people got fed up and they started going downhill (Well, that and the end FBI busted the guy who owned it for all sorts of stock and investor fraud)... Sometimes it really feel like this place has a bit of Crazy Eddie Syndrome.
But can you actually buy it without registering - by which it becomes free? Looks like sort of a catch 22.
I see ads every day on all kinds of sites saying "Free item every day!" or something along those lines. Fortunately I know better and love this site anyway. I trust it more than any of the other stores I frequesnt. (payment info kept safe, quality of products, etc.)
No because as you click on the thumbnail it sends you to the page I linked.
I guess "Shut up and take my money!" doesn't work here then.
"Shut up and take my money!"
This must be the DRM free version !
Love it Lol!
This should now be fixed.
Evidently so did 'Not Necessarily The News' back in the 80's, because I remember seeing one skit where it was "Crazy Ali" or something like that, and he was a Arab Black Market salesman, selling all kinds of black market weapons. Was a crazy skit. One may be able to find it on youtube, sometimes one can find some old N.N.T.News skits on there. I never knew that was based off a real store. Now I do. =)
Oh yeah...Crazy Eddie was 'real'.
Where I lived in NE Pennsylvania had New York stations on cable...and his commercials were...um...something.
There were even immitators around, and they all ended up like Crazy Eddie...maybe even were cellmates of his?
oh, I forgot to mention, at the end of the skit, they did the "Prices are insaaaaaane" thing too. It had 'Crazy Ali' swinging on the very tip/end of a Tank gun (the main gun), and then he says that about prices being insane, or an anouncer does, it's been so long so I don't remember which. I thought it was all very funny though because he was saying things like "need a rpg"? we got it! "Need a (insert weapon here), we got it." LOL.
HA! It's actually on Yutube, check it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeTQ0bndjlw Its called Crazy Ollie.
Now there's just 1-877-Kars-For-Kidz, guaranteed to make you want to commit infanticide.
Or Celino and Barnes in western NY, *Celino and Barnes In-jur-y attorneys, 800-888-888* My ears bleed.
If you wish to truly understand hell...
Speaking of crazy sales, years ago in Oxford Street these things used to appear. There would be a small shop with a counter at the back and a salesman behind it. He would hold up various things and call out who wants to buy this expensive item for 50p. Everyone put their hands up and he'd throw it to someone in the audience, then go on to something else. I suspect the people who got these "bargains" were probably plants and they were trying to get everyone worked up so they'd buy something else but I never had the patience to stay long enough th find out.
It works for me all the time! Depending on the sale, of course. And whether there's anything on sale that I might actually want....
I can't think of the auto dealership but the TV station in Buffalo up to a year or so ago would broadcast these awful car ads with the owner, a loud, fat, balding, obnoxious man screaming at the viewer about the deals. That in itself isn't so unusual but the audio technician apparently had no idea how badly the audio was distorting. Recently somebody seems to have "gotten to" the obnoxious owner and told him to tone down his act. I guess his take on the the screaming auto salesman wasn't as successful as he thought it might be. The ads are less offputting but I still don't remember the name of the dealership. Guess his ads still aren't working.
If it's more useable for animators, then may be ► without broken/unworkable IK setup and bad keyframe/timeline editor = NO sorry
Crazy Eddie was arrested by Interpol in Israel for embezzlement, the sad part was the guy on the commercial who was a DJ from Ohio was getting death threats because people thought he was Crazy Eddie. I bought my first computer from those bums, an Atari 800 with 16K RAM and quickly became a f'n wizard at Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code or BASIC
I think the price of Studio is $249, you've been getting it at a discount all this time. It's important for users to know the value. You're getting $249 worth of software rather than $25 worth of software, at 100% off. It will also make it much easier to deflect criticism if they want to start charging again. "The software was never free, just deeply discounted."
I'm always up for a bit of Daz bashing, but man, it took A LOT for me to find the software in the store, as opposed to being shunted to the "Get started"/register and DL page.
I mean, I had to search for Carrara, use that to get the category, filter DAZ Originals, and then go through the pages to find the store item...which then shunted me to the Get Started page.
So hat's off to Daz on this one. Any new user looking for the software who finds themselves buying it (and it is now listed as free) deserves to lose some money.
I see ads all the time that say, "Free for now!" which sort of implies that it won't be free at some point.
that is just a marketing trick to make you grab it now. Unless DAZ decides to greatly change its currently sales model, DS is likely to remain free for the foreseeable future.
its the honey trap
seasoned users like me with 125 pages in their product libraries know that too well
......I shall just buy this one pretty hair .....
Keep in mind that when the "free" deal started, Hexagon and,IIRC, Bryce and Carrara were also free. Those eventually stopped being giveaways and went to $19.95 for the first two and $285.95 Cararra (minus whatever crazy discount is on it this week.) As for this price on DS... I suspect that it's so that they can actually run an ad saying "$249.00 value, free!" and not be skirting the truth in advertising laws. I mean, DS has been free for over 5 years now, and five years is usually a major cutoff point with a lot of restrictions on advertising. That said, I also doubt that they're going to try to sell DS 4 again, not if the runaway sucess of Carrara is any gauge.
I remember that guy! Back when cable television was becoming a thing and we could see television stations from other big cities (namely NYC and Chicago), everybody knew who Crazy Eddie was. Those commercials were hilarious!
True story. I frequented a Crazy Eddie in the eighties and got to know a lot of the guys there. They loved me 'cause I was a gal who loved tech and it was unique to them. One day the power supply died on my C64 and I couldn't wait to order a replacement because I was hosting a chat room online. So I hopped in the car and sped off to Crazy Eddie's to see if they had a replacement. Well the only one they had was theirs back in the repair 'shop' for when people brought in their C64's for repair and didn't bring the PS along.
Yep. I convinced them to give it to me. And they did.
Carrara was free?
Not that I recall, just Hexagon and Bryce (and DS).