There's Always Another Sale Thread -- Discussions Only Pt 4
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i get the majority of free items just to get them out of the store so I dont see them anymore. I feel pretty much the same way about most of the DAZ+ offerings for quite awhile. Lower cost, I understand, but it gets reptitious. YMMV of course. Like I don't like all the shaders, or sci-fi animals, or the corridors, etc etc, but someone else does. I just like a great sale though
Like today with the 5 items for 75% off if you buy a new release. Add in your tokens or maybe a coupon if you a Premier member, and its a good day. 89% off actually in my case of 5 items. So I have lopi bundle down to $5.88.@ 89% off. List price is $55.99.
I have always felt as though they pick the quirkiest, least useful things they could think of to model as freebies, I did however always love the Martin Frost plants.
Not DAZ+ currently and will probably not be for a few months
(I do find the optional single month subscription model a good idea)
you never will see a hair, an outfit or a character as a monthly freebie
(do get some older ones as regular freebies for everyone though)
But they could say, "we don't want any more of half-a-ed spaces with all black textures." Daz taking those freebies is a clear sign to the PAs that this is acceptable. It's also a clear sign that they don't care about their customer base to get a quality (even if simple) product as part of their subscription. This devalues the subscription even more.
Nobody expects full blown environments or figures with 25456 different materials, but what we're regularly getting feels like a beginner practicing Blender. And the black ones are the worst, because even the textures look like the minimum effort (we do get some corridors that at least have some textures/something to tell them apart).
Daz needs the PA to agree to sell the items outright for them to become freebies.
I have a ton of the sitting in DIM that are basically in the way. Do you know if they can be hidden or something? Especially texture for items i dont have, nor ever will. I always thought I could use them for something, but it never happens.
"It is working...!"
At least you can use them for silly renders.
*Looks around for eavesdroppers & spy gear before typing.* It could be worse, like a black room with a pool in the floor.
Haven't products owned by DAZ (which DAZ+ freebies are) already been sold outright to DAZ ?
They usually have a very small footprint, so I have installed all of them, even if I have yet to find a use for all of them.
Yes, which means the PA needs to have offered them - which is what I said a few nestings in, the Daz freebies need to be made by a PA and sold to Daz.
I thought it went the other way around, with Daz commissionning PAs to create freebies for them.
sort of like a black hole, nothing comes out of it.
Okay, fair, but maybe Daz could... y'know... arrange for that? If they're advertising this weekly content as an incentive to become a member, it looks pretty cheap if what you actually get is... well, what we've been getting.
and even more so when you can buy a lot of top tier main store stuff for sure under 5 buck at a lot of sales. I've gotten realy nice sets even from Stonemason under $5.
tThe one above and this one are recent sales as well..not years ago. The one is obviously a $2.99 sale, but its all current I tin...
Yesterday, I picked up the props set from Sunday & got my $1 goodies - poses, shaders, the legacy converter & a large set of tutorials from Sickleyield. Not quite ready to try making my own models but I have the needed information for when I am.
I'm only a member of the "free tier" since the end of January. Seeing what are in my opinion rather low value membership freebies each week/month only reinforces my decision to not pay for the increased membership prices. It has also affected my purchases here, having only made two purchases since January (opps ....it was actually 3, I also paid a few extra cents to use the $6.00 coupon code when DAZ did the free 15 day DAZ+ memberships). I may still pick up a month or two of membership during the year, but IMHO the value typically just isn't there anymore for old timers and small spenders.
I'm DAZ+ and I absolutely agree with the opinions expressed here concerning the uninspired freebies we keep on getting since quite some time now. I'm not saying they're badly made, but they're basically just one damn, very simple room in different iterations, like barbult said, and I'm so sick of them and of the absolute lack of impact complaints in this regard seem to have that I'm basically just sitting here waiting for my membership to run out to be rid of this whole subject. Maybe this is the intent, I don't know. I know people did complain about the plants we used to get too, but I for sure wasn't one of them, and whatever else you can say, plants are useful in so many different ways and different settings, and bare scifi rooms just. Are. Not.
I actually wrote a lot more, suggestions and such, but I deleted it all, it's just no use. It's really sad, because I used to look forward SO much to the freebies, but it is what it is, and I'm just over it.
This free hallway isn't too bad. When you release your inner, creativity insanity and add things like a T Rex conga line, it kinda works.
Reminds me of one of the SYFY Velociraptor/T-Rex movies
Except radiation . . . which can cause nausea and vomiting . . .
And the giant bannered 4 hour 70 percent off sale... doesn't seem to be working. It will discount with new releases that were released today, but not with anything else.
IMHO the biweekly (actual) freebies are better, which is sad to say since it's all pretty ancient stuff.
And yeah, a lot of it is old characters I doubt I'll use, or texture add ons to outfits I'll never buy. But usually there's at least one hair I could maybe use for a background caracter, or a pose set, or an outfit, or a cople props, or a simple scene from which I could harvest a couple props... at least the potential to be useful. And there's a variety of stuff, so more chance for a greater number of people to find things they like.
Same, and sometimes I even find really nice things in there. They used to be pretty bad for quite a while, but they've picked up a bit again and now often include some G3 stuff for instance. And the props are usually useful anyways, lile you said - throw on some new textures, and often you're good to go. Older stuff is often not as resource-heavy as well, which is great for rendering on a wheezing laptop.
Yeah, I'll often pick up the actual non member freebies, if they're G3 character wise, or a location, they will have some benefit.
The Daz+ freebies I collect just because I can, I think only maybe once or twice have I used one in the last 6-12 months or so
There have indeed been a few times I've gone "oh cool" and promptly used something that was in the offerings. The poses, especially; Bone Minion plus the ability to freeze sections of the character so you can just harvest an arm or a hand or something means they'll almost always get used... eventually. I even had one of the G2 poses in one of those sets turn out to be exactly what I needed for a scene, and all the newer stuff I had didn't even come close.
Another idea for solving the uninspiring D+ issue could be... offer the choice of the D+ weekly/monthly OR a coupon for the equivalent worth of a DO. Then people who truly do like whatever's on offer that week can still nab it, and those who don't, won't feel frustrated that the feel like part of their subscription fee was wasted. And the DO's are something that Daz has the ability to give away free, so that circumvents the issue of needing PA permission.
I'm a bit underwhelmed with the freebies but I still find a way to use them. That neon hot tub is one of my things now