There's Always Another Sale Thread -- Discussions Only Pt 4
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I just thought about that... Like, since they became Premier freebies, character bundles are shrinking... And I'd say 3½ (being generous) because I don't cound HD add-ons, since they usually come bundled in other characters for free, as an item. The good thing is I don't think it can get smaller than that...
Victoria 9. As usual.
I think it eye opening that new release characters, like Chloe 9, just the character, is much more expensive than what you could have gotten a Pro Bundle for not long ago. plus you have to buy the HD add to get it looking good. I'm still on buying boycott until I get an answer from my latest help ticket. Have been losing my tokens. Only 4 left. Haven't been posting either. Next step is seeya later alligator, after while crocodile. As I've said before though, I'm about washed and hung out to dry here. I will just say I've enjoyed my time overall, up to maybe the last 5 years or so. Its been slowly fading. As that famous American football player turned announcer used to sing at the end of a football game, "Turn out the lights... the party's over".
Beg to differ about the HDs... Never needed HD morphs... Ever... Unless you're doing ultrarealistic stuff, it's overhead.
Now... About those core characters, I don't know if I already posted it here or somewhere else, but they lost their leverage around G8.0~1 because, let's say, during V4 times, you needed V4 (or another base character) for almost anything. During G1~3 times, though not strictly necessary, PAs were still doing a lot of Character X for Core Character Y stuff, which, to be honest, lasted until the earlier G8 characters. Perhaps people started to notice they didn't really need those core characters unless someone wanted an exact replica of those Character X for Core Character Y as seen in their promos. One could, for instance, buy a Character X for Olympia 8 and use Victoria 8 and get not the exact but similar results. One could even just mix with another non-core character and/or resort to base/Zev0's/other similar topical morphs (in fact, since I like to create my own characters, that's exactly what I do, even though I was quite a Core Characters collector until G8, and I still buy one or another when there's a good opportunity). I wrote all that to say that those Core Characters lost their special status. Some are cool, some aren't, but they're just like other characters but over-expensive... Adding to that, they have, like, 2 or 3 base meshes for each gender, and most are just variations of the same theme with a new skin. So I get the freebies because they're included in my plan and buy the ones I think are cool when they're priced like other characters and interest me, but that's that—there's no special reason to buy them but subjective ones. So, I think the actual function of the core characters is being an incentive to subscribe to Premier while, at the same time, the free bundles will shrink so they can sell the more substantial suff as standalones or parts of other non-freebie bundles. Hopefully, it won't shrink anymore because we need at least a hair and an outfit. Otherwise, they'll have to be honest and say you'll get a free character and not a free bundle.
I agree with this, I rarely buy them unless it's a gnarly old character or creature, then yes always
smooth faced young ladies don't need them
the thing with HDmorphs is I only need them for closeups but the entire body needs the subdivision, I hide what I can out of view but it still has some effect,
you still need bits not covered by clothing visible even if subdivision unneeded
if only DAZ could figure out how to only subdivide heads
the character mixer thing that only does heads has this same issue
They are also pricier than the 3 item G9 "mini-bundles" I mentioned on previous page, many of which include a character. I did a quick search and those range in price from $14 current/$35 full for hair/outfit/outfit add-on to $35/$50 for HD character/hair/outfit.
As I wrote earlier if this keeps up, when I do Premier, I'll only use that code on older bundles, unless a new figure is a Must! Have! Now! for me. Unless Daz once more changes older bundles to "match" the newer ones again. If that happens, the number of months/year I do Premier will probably drop, since free bundle is my #1 use of the tier.
Legend says you have to use SubD 4... Too much for me. So I never use 'em because it makes almost no difference. I've never ever bought any. All the ones I have, I got for free, or they came with the character. I usually get the effect I need with normals and/or bumps, but you gotta find a decent normal map... Not all normal maps are created equally. But I'm not into ultra-realistic stuff, so... Maybe they're necessary for that. I just disagree that they're necessary in an absolute sense. For many uses, they're either overhead or plain useless. Even normal/bump maps are useless or even bad in some situations, for instance, when doing ultra-toon stuff.
I really think Daz is shooting themselves in the foot unless they are focusing entirely on Roblox users or studios or I guess newbies for their product sales. These new sparse character bundles are pointless unless you're Premier and even then... When my Daz+ expires at the end of the month, I think I'll be done here after like 20 years. Maybe if they have a good deal during the next Premier or PA or Christmas sale, I'll join Premier for a month, we'll see, but it seems like the end of an era for me. I did quit Daz for several years before when they introduced Genesis which was DS only and I was a Poser user but came back when V7 and iRay was introduced and taught myself DS so maybe I'll come back if there's some new amazing thing but I feel like I'm about to break up with a boyfriend I used to love again because we're going in different directions. I really hope Daz can survive because I've invested soooo much into it over the years and I already have enough content to last the rest of my life. I don't even know my exact end date because CS has not responded to my querie but I think it's April 28. So, as Jim Morrison sings (and Val Kilmer RIP) recreated so well, I guess "This is the end my beautiful friend (s)." I still have almost $200 in store credit though, I thought I was going to spend it during MM. I'm pretty sure it's not supposed to expire so hopefully I'll find some good deals eventually but I wish I had saved that money for other things.
not sure if you read my post above a couple, but I/ve been threatening to leave for awhile, but right now I'm gasping for air. My forum join says 2003, but I've been here since Zygote. I've never felt this way before, to feel so done. The forums have left me awhile ago. I prettymuch only post to loutlet my frustration and once in awhile a question. I will help if I know an answer to a question and no one else has responded aboit it. Overall I feel the community feeling has left the building awhile ago.
Its too bad DAZ has gotten so far behiind on their tickets. My ticket is baically a membership expiration question but it also cost me quite a big savings purchase and my tokens. Last time something went amiss during a sale, and for some reason its always near the end of it, the response was the sale is over so cannot honor it. I think they did give me 8 tokens back that time. That should have been enough for an adios message. Anyway, all things must pass.
Yeah, last time I left Daz I was actually angry at them. This time I'm just disappointed. There's no reason I can't still be part of the community just because I will no longer be purchasing here. I can still post renders even of products I've purchased for the past 20 years. It's sometimes a fun challenge to iRay or FilaToon super old products that have been languishing in my runtime. And I'll have so much more time to do other things that I would normally spend scouring sales and playing cart jenga. Not to mention all the money I'll be saving! I'm going to reframe all of this as a good thing. Seriously, I will be ending an addiction and that's probably really healthy!
Yeah, I can see tech support tickets taking a lot of time, but sales support tickets should be processed faster than they seem to be. I can get a 24 hour turn around on a refund request, why is it nearly two weeks without a response on getting heavily overcharged due to a sales glitch with proof provided and everything,
Been here since Zygote and the Poser days before Studio and have to agree with you.
I'm quite disappointed by Chloe 9 and her bundles today. I've made a couple rants in her thread.
...another change I've been noticing particularly with clothing and to a point with hair contend t is that we often get just a base texture and have to purchase textures separately to get a wide variety. more. For hair this his what led me to Sloshworks UHT shaders and they were not content specific (not even generation specific) to get more variations. of colour. I also have a large collection of clothing shaders however those are dependent on how well detailed the material zones are.
As to character design this is why like I have mentioned elsewhere I have a hefty investment in morph, shaping, skin, merchant resource kits and cross generation transfer utilities.. Personally I like more diverse characters beyond the original "stable" of Vicky, Mike, Stephanie, Aiko, etc. G8 in particular was where I felt really interesting and unique characters like Floyd, Mabel, Edie Mr Woo, Mrs Chow and Nida along with the more unique fae/fantasy, and S-F characters. .The lest of the original base Daz characters I purchased was Girl 7.
I thought I was done spending for March Madness. But I guess that's why it's March Madness. :)
what are DO bundles?
Daz Originals bundles.
I can't say that I've been a customer here for very long. And I still have hundreds of items in my wishlist while I wait for them to reach a price low enought that I feel comfortable to pay. But I've been purchasing during this March Madness from the beginning, especially since I became Premier, with the introduction of the annual plans. Yesterday was also a day of big spending for me. But it was worthy in my opinion. I got a lot for the money I ended up paying.
I still don't like that we only got four items in Chloe 9's bundles for the same price we used to pay before, when the bundles came with more items.
I wish I had store credit left! Your patience paid off.
Yesterday was optimal for picking up Daz Originals, in particular older Daz Originals since the stacking discounts ate pretty far into the store's new floor price minimums. Got some stuff that had been on my wishlist for a long time.
Congratulations on your big haul! The complaints are most likely from people who've been shopping here for quite awhile and already own the items you bought yesterday. Hence, those deals don't show up for them.
...that is true, been the situation since 2007, and yeah, have a large library of content Also not being so enamoured with G9 human characters (pretty content with G8/G8.1) not a lot of interest there save for monster and creature characters. .
https://www.daz3d.com/march-madness-25 spoilers for future products, but I think this is the wrong page for today's sales XD
...something certainly broke.
Though that new Stonemason set looks like it will end up in the cart.
Sorry if this has been asked before, but if I buy a product right now, can I earn a gold star right away, or I will only get a gold star tomorrow ? THanks
You'll get it tomorrow and it'll be active until the end of monday.
Thanks
Appreciate the response, should have been more clear in my question, which celebrity is she based on?