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  • RenomistaRenomista Posts: 921

    The DMB is broken. Two of the thre Parts of the Bundle are not Online yet!

  • lx_2807502lx_2807502 Posts: 2,996

    Yeah I was confused because adding the PC+ hair works as both boosters (which Chris' math shows and I can't math) but I didn't see goldtassel in the artist list for items that worked?

    Either way, got Star, am happy.

  • isidornisidorn Posts: 1,601

    Me, once I'd finally worked out that the (quite generous) discount only applied to stuff I'm not interested in, I moved on. My wallet needs a day off today anyway.

    Same here. I've no interest in doing toon/manga renders. Good deal for those that do, though.

  • jakibluejakiblue Posts: 7,281

    Thank you so much for that! I couldn't work out what these "boosters" were, and I didn't understand why they mean by "they combine".  

    I had to read through it a few times too before I could get my head around it, but here's what I think it means:

    • Madness booster - buy a new release (newly mad or still mad) and get an extra 30% off related mad (the Star stuff)
    • Artist booster - buy a mad artist item and also get 30% off related mad (the Star stuff)

    Note that (I think) all newly/still mad items are also mad artist items by definition, because the mad artists are the ones with new/still mad items, so buying one of them triggers both discounts. Buying a non-new artist item on its own just triggers one discount. So...

    • Buy the daily mind blower and Star (and/or any of her gear) = get 50% & 30% & 30% & 10% = 77.95% discount on the Star stuff. Star costs $4.84
    • Buy a newly/still mad item and Star (and/or any of her gear) = get 50% & 30% & 30% = 75.5% discount. Star costs $5.38
    • Buy a non-new artist's item and Star (and/or any of her gear) = get 50% & 30% = 65% discount. Star costs $7.68

    If you have The Girl Pro, you can knock a further 10% off those prices.

    Me, once I'd finally worked out that the (quite generous) discount only applied to stuff I'm not interested in, I moved on. My wallet needs a day off today anyway.

     

  • boisselazonboisselazon Posts: 458

    It's completely unclear. What are the items elligible for the 30% more?

    what are those that give you this 30% discount? i've tried many things and never got this 30%.

    Can someone help please?

  • BradCarstenBradCarsten Posts: 856
    bradrg said:

    Edit Edit** Okay, I think I've got it. It looks like you have to buy a new mad item to get 30% off one of the related mad items. You then have to buy something from the artist catalogue to get another 30% off related mad items.

    Maaaaaan that took a lot of work. 

    Okay, that did't work. I got the first 30% but not the second. I give up. 

  • Boiselazon, Lady Littlefox's Star! seems to be the key, as chris-2599934 points out in his post, and as others have said, it's probably not a good deal if you're not into toon characters. I can confirm that the numbers he gave seem to be accurate as of right now also.

  • boisselazonboisselazon Posts: 458

    It is absolutely missleading. Daz must stop this awfull game playing with wording they don't understand themselves. And yes, unfortunately, it seems that this discount only apply on star&co.

     

  • AtiAti Posts: 9,182

    It is absolutely missleading. Daz must stop this awfull game playing with wording they don't understand themselves. And yes, unfortunately, it seems that this discount only apply on star&co.

     

    ?

    It says "30% off RELATED MAD ITEMS". When you go and see what the "related mad items" are, you can see that they are the "star&co" items, as you put it. Clicking on the banner takes you to exactly this part of the promo page. I don't think there is anything misleading in this at all.

  • lx_2807502lx_2807502 Posts: 2,996

    I don't think it's misleading, but it is a bit more complicated than you'd think. Or badly worded. Or not working the way they intended. 

    The basis of the sale is buy 1 new MM thing 1 artist MM thing each giving a stacking 30% discount on Star (as well as the usual 40>50% on all items involved.) Except that most of the new MM items count as the artist item too (maybe.) 

    The result is fantastic savings if you're interested in the newly moved over Star, but a not inconsiderable headache figuring out the mechanism to get that saving. Perhaps it might have been better to highlight that instead of 'related mad' the discount was going to 'Star and her items.' Also, adding in two new terms 'madness booster' and 'a artist booster' probably confused a lot of people who had no idea what these new things were (are they the mind blower? no. do they replace the mind blower? no. etc.)

  • BradCarstenBradCarsten Posts: 856

    They should have just said, buy any new mad item, and get 30% off star and her accessories. 

    But any new mad and any still mad item and get 60% off star and her accessories. 

    (If that's how it works that is)

  • TesseractSpaceTesseractSpace Posts: 1,582
    bradrg said:

    They should have just said, buy any new mad item, and get 30% off star and her accessories. 

    But any new mad and any still mad item and get 60% off star and her accessories. 

    (If that's how it works that is)

    I don't think there's any way they could ever word things that wouldn't have people complaining about being confused. It's one of the drawbacks of doing any sale more complicated than a simple 'this item is X% off its original price'. Didn't have Star yet, so this worked out well for me. :)

  • HavosHavos Posts: 5,573

    After looking at the wording again, I can see now that the extra 30% off is only on the related items (ie star stuff), but it is a bit misleading calling one of the discounts an artist booster, which I had originally assumed would act on the relevant artist's back catalogues, but obviously that is not the case. Like others have also said, if you are not into toon renders (I am also not) then this is a deal easily skipped, but at 50%-75% off those toon items it does represent a good deal for those items.

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 12,735
    Havos said:

    After looking at the wording again, I can see now that the extra 30% off is only on the related items (ie star stuff), but it is a bit misleading calling one of the discounts an artist booster, which I had originally assumed would act on the relevant artist's back catalogues, but obviously that is not the case. Like others have also said, if you are not into toon renders (I am also not) then this is a deal easily skipped, but at 50%-75% off those toon items it does represent a good deal for those items.

    They called it "artist booster" as it is triggered by buying an item from one of the featured artists.

  • Yeah, it looked awesome, and I filled my cart with stuff from the PC+ hair, something from an artist, and "We're all mad" items... and was still only getting 50% off.  Thanks for pointing out that's only the Star items.  I'll need to re-plan my cart.

    And so many things in "We're all mad" today that almost never go on sale!  'Cept it's a tiny sale...sad

  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,321

    Well, the good news is that my "must have", Bar Interior, finally went on sale. Bought, plus a few "Nice to Have" items, mostly cheap old PC+ like Cat Props. And some freebies.

    The bad news is that the latest MM iteration is too confusing, and I don't need any Star. Oh, well, there's always the end of March specials to look forward to.

    Wallet/closed

  • RenomistaRenomista Posts: 921

    New Stuff is up...

     

    I'm not mindblown. Gemma has a nice face the rest is ok but nothing that would bring me to buy another female character.

    I think this is the first day of MM where I neither buy nor wishlist a Newly Mad Item.

    Swole and Dead Zone are nice, but I dont have a use for them...

  • lx_2807502lx_2807502 Posts: 2,996

    Did Daz time have a daylight savings change or something? It's been going up earlier this week.

    I would have bought a bunch of the new related Star items if they'd come out yesterday... today the deal takes too much effort to activate so I'll wait for later.

  • RenomistaRenomista Posts: 921

    Yes US is allready in DST since sunday. We (CET) will follow in 10 days and should be back to 8:00 then

  • SpitSpit Posts: 2,342

    Star stuff I bought at RDNA doesn't indicate I did.

    Yesterday (the initial run) was fine and the stuff I had already purchased at DNA didn't show up.

    What shows up today for me, anyway, are 13 products, of which I already own 10.

    Did a batch maybe not get processed yet?

  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,236
    Spit said:

    Star stuff I bought at RDNA doesn't indicate I did.

    Yesterday (the initial run) was fine and the stuff I had already purchased at DNA didn't show up.

    What shows up today for me, anyway, are 13 products, of which I already own 10.

    Did a batch maybe not get processed yet?

    Are you sure the email address of your RDNA account is the same as your email address for your DAZ3D account?

  • Spit said:

    Star stuff I bought at RDNA doesn't indicate I did.

    Yesterday (the initial run) was fine and the stuff I had already purchased at DNA didn't show up.

    What shows up today for me, anyway, are 13 products, of which I already own 10.

    Did a batch maybe not get processed yet?

    Let me check on this.

  • bad4ubad4u Posts: 684

    @DAZ_Steve:

    There's a problem on my account page for a few days now: When I click the 'Orders' button it links to and reloads the active page, means when I'm on wishlist the 'orders' button links to wishlist etc. I can still open orders list from the 'view all' link on 'account info' page, so orders page is still working. I only tested with Firefox yet, but it is on different computers.

  • bad4u said:

    @DAZ_Steve:

    There's a problem on my account page for a few days now: When I click the 'Orders' button it links to and reloads the active page, means when I'm on wishlist the 'orders' button links to wishlist etc. I can still open orders list from the 'view all' link on 'account info' page, so orders page is still working. I only tested with Firefox yet, but it is on different computers.

    Sorry for not being more helpful here in the forums, but I would suggest opening a support ticket. 

  • SpitSpit Posts: 2,342
    edited March 2016
    DAZ_Steve said:
    Spit said:

    Star stuff I bought at RDNA doesn't indicate I did.

    Yesterday (the initial run) was fine and the stuff I had already purchased at DNA didn't show up.

    What shows up today for me, anyway, are 13 products, of which I already own 10.

    Did a batch maybe not get processed yet?

    Let me check on this.

    Thanks. It's actually 18 not 13 that I already own from today's page. Basically of all the Star stuff in the DAZ store as of today there are only 3 products I don't have and I'm not planning to get because pure Poser. Probably just a glitch in the process.

     

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  • lx_2807502lx_2807502 Posts: 2,996

    Heads up: 

    Today's daily mind blower, http://www.daz3d.com/ej-graciana-for-genesis-3-female-s is Daz Encrypted Connect only. Encrypted products still aren't marked properly so it's easy to miss.

  • isidornisidorn Posts: 1,601
    lx said:

    Heads up: 

    Today's daily mind blower, http://www.daz3d.com/ej-graciana-for-genesis-3-female-s is Daz Encrypted Connect only. Encrypted products still aren't marked properly so it's easy to miss.

    I really hope that is a mistake. As much as I love Emma and Jordi's stuff I'm not buying something I can't use. (as DAZ connect refuses to work for me)

  • L'AdairL'Adair Posts: 9,479
    lx said:

    Heads up: 

    Today's daily mind blower, http://www.daz3d.com/ej-graciana-for-genesis-3-female-s is Daz Encrypted Connect only. Encrypted products still aren't marked properly so it's easy to miss.

    I was just coming in here to say something about that. I suspect it is a mistake. First, because none of the MM new releases have been encrypted before this; Second, none of the other items released today are encrypted; And third, there is nothing on the March Madness sales page to indicate the item is encrypted. In the past, every sale has been quite explicit about the products being Encrypted DAZ Connect only.

    But I took it out of my cart, just to be safe. As I'm still running 4.8, I won't be able to use anything encrypted until 12 months after release... so I'll buy it then, whatever "it" is. Assuming I still want "it."

     

  • scorpioscorpio Posts: 8,533

    I was looking to buy some of the IGD poses for Star but the product page doesn't show the poses there's only a main promo image, its really difficult to make a purchase if I can't get some idea of what there is in the product.

    And yes I'm also finding this promo really confusing and its actually delaying me from spending.

  • lx_2807502lx_2807502 Posts: 2,996
    scorpio said:

    I was looking to buy some of the IGD poses for Star but the product page doesn't show the poses there's only a main promo image, its really difficult to make a purchase if I can't get some idea of what there is in the product.

    And yes I'm also finding this promo really confusing and its actually delaying me from spending.

    Yeah I have all of today's related pose sets in my cart but the fact that I can't actually see what any of the poses are has put me off buying too. One promo of 1-2 poses really isn't enough.

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