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  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 4,106

    After reading the posts for https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-louis-hair-for-genesis-9 by AprilYSH and https://www.daz3d.com/touchable-louis by Wolfie both seem to be DAZ products, not Rendo imports. So the texture add-on should have metadata. I did look at it this morning and yes, it didn't list the Required Product then, but it does now.

    Could this be a case of the new PAs not being aware of the location for the required product for DAZ on the submission form? I know that on Rendo I often found the Required Product listed, even if it was a DAZ released product

    I also found listed products used in the promos, which I welcomed. It would be nice if DAZ would do that again here as a rule, instead of offering products that have no relation by type, era, style, or apparent interest for the user instead, especially lower SKU ones.

    And yeah, I miss the finding the deals I did in my previous years. But I have bought so much stuff from Generation 3 & 4 and from G1 to G8.1 that it is hard for me to find anything I haven't turned down or have no use for. And my library, only partially installed needs an 18TB external backup drive now. Including freebies, and two other stores' items.

    I am glad I bought my Pro Bundles when I could.

    Mary

     

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,226

    memcneil70 said:

    After reading the posts for https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-louis-hair-for-genesis-9 by AprilYSH and https://www.daz3d.com/touchable-louis by Wolfie both seem to be DAZ products, not Rendo imports. So the texture add-on should have metadata. I did look at it this morning and yes, it didn't list the Required Product then, but it does now.

    Could this be a case of the new PAs not being aware of the location for the required product for DAZ on the submission form? I know that on Rendo I often found the Required Product listed, even if it was a DAZ released product

    I also found listed products used in the promos, which I welcomed. It would be nice if DAZ would do that again here as a rule, instead of offering products that have no relation by type, era, style, or apparent interest for the user instead, especially lower SKU ones.

    And yeah, I miss the finding the deals I did in my previous years. But I have bought so much stuff from Generation 3 & 4 and from G1 to G8.1 that it is hard for me to find anything I haven't turned down or have no use for. And my library, only partially installed needs an 18TB external backup drive now. Including freebies, and two other stores' items.

    I am glad I bought my Pro Bundles when I could.

    Mary

    How much of the stuff included in Pro bundles did you acually use (or want)?

  • miladyderyni_173d399f47miladyderyni_173d399f47 Posts: 1,731

    I've checked this thread, the reporting thread, & the +/Premier forum. Still nothing official from Daz about the sudden bundle changes. Not to mention, less than a month into Premier Tier and Daz is messing around with one of the perks.

  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 3,298

    miladyderyni_173d399f47 said:

    I've checked this thread, the reporting thread, & the +/Premier forum. Still nothing official from Daz about the sudden bundle changes. Not to mention, less than a month into Premier Tier and Daz is messing around with one of the perks.

    Bundles sometimes change, sometimes vanish without notice. I've seen it happen before. This is the biggest change I've seen, though. A lot of high profile bundles are affected. What is doing to the perks?

  • XiousDsXiousDs Posts: 371
    Leana said:

    joanna said:

    "Touchable Louis" is actually a color expansion for dForce Louis Hair, and to me, it is frustrating that you have to click on the product to find out what it is.

    All the "Touchable" products are texture expansions for hair, just like for example "VERSUS" and "InStyle" products are textures add-ons for clothes.

    I agree that having a mention in the product name or some tag to mark them as add-ons would be useful though.

    Those are naming conventions they used at the other store, right? If so, thus the problem. Don't really care about how it was done at the other store, care for how it is done typically here for simplicity purposes.
  • XiousDsXiousDs Posts: 371
    RiverMissy said:
    XiousDs said:
    SilverGirl said:

    I must say, I hadn't figured I'd see better prices on DO and D+ stuff during the PA sale than during the actual Daz Anniversary sale.

    Ten days left (plus whatever extensions they decide to drop on us to prolong the agony), maybe they'll prove me wrong.

    Really looking forward to when they ditch the giant Premier advertisement you have to scroll eight miles through to get to the actual products...

    I picked up a bunch of daz+ items for between 38 cents and 74 cents which were about a year old. I thought that was a pretty good deal.
    How did you achieve those prices? Everything I look at with the new pricing model costs me more than before.
    Buying the daze+ debut new release, being premier, using 8 tokens, buying the roughly $2 qualifying item that gave an extra 20% featured artist stores, and $10 off $25 or more coupon.
  • ElorElor Posts: 1,431
    edited October 23

    Nice two punches combo by Daz: making bundles inactives the day before a wishlist sale.

    Is it possible to get a page with all the new characters and addon bundles, to make it easier to fix our wishlist ?

    Post edited by Elor on
  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,027
    edited October 23

    joanna said:

    UGH. Filtering addons and textures might not be possible, but at least they were clearly marked in their name. Now it seems that Daz is allowing items to not be clearly marked. "Touchable Louis" is actually a color expansion for dForce Louis Hair, and to me, it is frustrating that you have to click on the product to find out what it is. When the new PAs came, the argument for the mess was "too many products at the time to fix descriptions, readme's and everything else". I was already inclined to not buy the migrating PAs products because of that, and to see some didn't bother to match the standards of the store even after the migration... Sadly, the list of the PAs that are on my "will not buy" list is growing, but I'm also disappointed that Daz isn't trying to enforce its own naming standards. The more they don't, the more the shop will become a chaotic mess.

    .....maybe they need a seperate icon for textures ike a "T"  

    OrangeFalcon said:

    SilverGirl said:

    I noticed the lack (or serious reduction) of flash sales during  previous themed months, too... I guess they figure they're already giving us (supposedly) amazing deals and don't need them. With the 30/30 deal last month that made sense, but this sale could seriously use a couple. (Of course, the flash sales don't often do anything for me either... but it's a bit of excitement to see something different come up.)

    Overall this has been an underwhelming sale lately.  I'm no longer anticipating a themed bundle this week. 

     ...I remember when this was one of the best sales of the year as it had several special deals for Platinum/Daz+ members..  Daz+ for a Day had far nicer selections there were the special Daz+ Annual Bundles, the BYOB sale and ot her special deals that would appear.   Now it's pretty much just another "Daz sale" that allows New Daz+ items to unlock extra savings and deals and a silently better discount on new releases for Daz+ members  (the latter which we also received in the precious PA sale)

    The only Orange Banners I've seen have been the ones about the new subscriptions and the "Personalised Offer" one  ..

    Though looks like they are doing a wishlist sale today (Wednesday) 

    Unfortunately whenever they have one of these most items on my wishlist are full price so 20% isn't enough of an incentive.

    Post edited by kyoto kid on
  • ioonrxoonioonrxoon Posts: 893

    Glad to see OOT release a g8 / card hair; hope it's going to be that way for future releases. To me it looks a million times better than the stand one.

  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 3,298

    I agree with Kyoto Kid. This used to be a far better sale!

  • britscriptwriterbritscriptwriter Posts: 60

    If this sale is how the 25th anniversary is being celebrated, I don't hold much hope for the upcoming, traditionally great, sales being any different. Sad times. I know the strategy is to push us to Premier for better deals, but I will NEVER pay monthly for a Daz membership. I can only hope I manage to buy my priority wishlist items at a reasonable price before my current Daz+ expires in a few months.

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 818

    Me: "Oh hey! 20% off wishlist items!"

    Me: (checks my priority wishlist items. Every single one of them is full price.)

    Me: "...or not."

  • britscriptwriterbritscriptwriter Posts: 60

    SilverGirl said:

    Me: "Oh hey! 20% off wishlist items!"

    Me: (checks my priority wishlist items. Every single one of them is full price.)

    Me: "...or not."

    It seems the days of a wishlist discount plus potentially-excellent stacking opportunities with buy-ins are a thing of the past (unless I'm missing something other than a Premier membership...). Something to tell the grandkids about. On it's own, the wishlist offer is as disappointing as the general sale. 

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 4,106

    barbult said:

    memcneil70 said:

    After reading the posts for https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-louis-hair-for-genesis-9 by AprilYSH and https://www.daz3d.com/touchable-louis by Wolfie both seem to be DAZ products, not Rendo imports. So the texture add-on should have metadata. I did look at it this morning and yes, it didn't list the Required Product then, but it does now.

    Could this be a case of the new PAs not being aware of the location for the required product for DAZ on the submission form? I know that on Rendo I often found the Required Product listed, even if it was a DAZ released product

    I also found listed products used in the promos, which I welcomed. It would be nice if DAZ would do that again here as a rule, instead of offering products that have no relation by type, era, style, or apparent interest for the user instead, especially lower SKU ones.

    And yeah, I miss the finding the deals I did in my previous years. But I have bought so much stuff from Generation 3 & 4 and from G1 to G8.1 that it is hard for me to find anything I haven't turned down or have no use for. And my library, only partially installed needs an 18TB external backup drive now. Including freebies, and two other stores' items.

    I am glad I bought my Pro Bundles when I could.

    Mary

    How much of the stuff included in Pro bundles did you acually use (or want)?

    @barbult, I always (at least in the past 4 years) did a count of the items that I wanted/would use vs what I had no use for. If it raised to at least 60% of the bundle or higher I had no issue to buy it. For example, I like Thomas 9 but that ratio didn't work out, so Thomas stays in the store. I have the items on wishlist I want but I haven't bought any, they just haven't come up for a decent sale yet. I was also put off by the comic hero outfit that I didn't even have knowledge of (and I collected comics!).

    There are about 6000 - 8000 products I have not downloaded now because they were fillers for those bundles: characters of little 'character', skimpwear, hairs, and products that are broken sadly. Also, I have no wish to clogged up my runtime with excessive characters again.

    That uninstalled count also includes landscapes full of items that have little bearing with plants; vehicles I never used, and V4 and M4 because I loath trying to add the metadata for the upteenth time for all the files that are required to use their characters and then I never used them. I can use their outfits and hair with clones without them. 

    That said, there are items going back to Generation 3 or 4 or older that I was able to buy, or freebies that I installed because I have used them and they have details I love. 

    Mary

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,182
    edited October 23

    OK, stupid question, how do I subscribe to DAZ+

    clicking the option just brings me back to the page

    was thinking just a month for now but if that wishlist sale ends I probably won't bother 

    Post edited by WendyLuvsCatz on
  • RiverMissyRiverMissy Posts: 299
    edited October 23

    XiousDs said:

    RiverMissy said:

    XiousDs said:

    SilverGirl said:

    I must say, I hadn't figured I'd see better prices on DO and D+ stuff during the PA sale than during the actual Daz Anniversary sale.

    Ten days left (plus whatever extensions they decide to drop on us to prolong the agony), maybe they'll prove me wrong.

    Really looking forward to when they ditch the giant Premier advertisement you have to scroll eight miles through to get to the actual products...

    I picked up a bunch of daz+ items for between 38 cents and 74 cents which were about a year old. I thought that was a pretty good deal.
    How did you achieve those prices? Everything I look at with the new pricing model costs me more than before.
    Buying the daze+ debut new release, being premier, using 8 tokens, buying the roughly $2 qualifying item that gave an extra 20% featured artist stores, and $10 off $25 or more coupon.
    That's discounting to the max. Good for you!
    Post edited by Richard Haseltine on
  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,565
    edited October 23

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    OK, stupid question, how do I subscribe to DAZ+

    clicking the option just brings me back to the page

    was thinking just a month for now but if that wishlist sale ends I probably won't bother 

    Hello Wendy

    Click on Memberships

    Click on DAZ Plus

    Click on the SIGN UP TODAY blue button

    In the Payment Method there is a button called CHANGE PAYMENT METHOD for me, don't know if that's what you get if Subscribing from new. Am letting mine lapse.

    DAZ+ SignUp 1.png
    1904 x 928 - 448K
    DAZ+ SignUp 2.png
    1422 x 733 - 72K
    Post edited by Bunyip02 on
  • XiousDsXiousDs Posts: 371
    edited October 23

    RiverMissy said:

    XiousDs said:

    RiverMissy said:

    XiousDs said:

    SilverGirl said:

    I must say, I hadn't figured I'd see better prices on DO and D+ stuff during the PA sale than during the actual Daz Anniversary sale.

    Ten days left (plus whatever extensions they decide to drop on us to prolong the agony), maybe they'll prove me wrong.

    Really looking forward to when they ditch the giant Premier advertisement you have to scroll eight miles through to get to the actual products...

    I picked up a bunch of daz+ items for between 38 cents and 74 cents which were about a year old. I thought that was a pretty good deal.
    How did you achieve those prices? Everything I look at with the new pricing model costs me more than before.
    Buying the daze+ debut new release, being premier, using 8 tokens, buying the roughly $2 qualifying item that gave an extra 20% featured artist stores, and $10 off $25 or more coupon.

    Thanks, it's typically the only way I buy stuff from the store. Some folks say they hate playing Daz Jenga, but I find it fun.

    Post edited by Richard Haseltine on
  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,182

    Bunyip02 well mine says PayPal but I cannot click on it and in my account can only choose credit card

    it never was this complicated before and honestly I cannot be bothered as really cannot afford it anyway

    I thought I would join just one month on a whim but stuff that, DAZ's loss not mine devil

  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,565

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    Bunyip02 well mine says PayPal but I cannot click on it and in my account can only choose credit card

    it never was this complicated before and honestly I cannot be bothered as really cannot afford it anyway

    I thought I would join just one month on a whim but stuff that, DAZ's loss not mine devil

    If I can't buy a discounted yearly sub and pay for it with store credit its a big no from me.

    Am doing subscription for DAZ AI but that's as far as I will go, find it useful for concept art, otherwise I would be sticking to Krita AI.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,182

    Bunyip02 said:

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    Bunyip02 well mine says PayPal but I cannot click on it and in my account can only choose credit card

    it never was this complicated before and honestly I cannot be bothered as really cannot afford it anyway

    I thought I would join just one month on a whim but stuff that, DAZ's loss not mine devil

    If I can't buy a discounted yearly sub and pay for it with store credit its a big no from me.

    Am doing subscription for DAZ AI but that's as far as I will go, find it useful for concept art, otherwise I would be sticking to Krita AI.

    I have paid for a couple AI image to video sites and used photographs and 3D renders

    quite impressed with the results 

  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,565

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    Bunyip02 said:

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    Bunyip02 well mine says PayPal but I cannot click on it and in my account can only choose credit card

    it never was this complicated before and honestly I cannot be bothered as really cannot afford it anyway

    I thought I would join just one month on a whim but stuff that, DAZ's loss not mine devil

    If I can't buy a discounted yearly sub and pay for it with store credit its a big no from me.

    Am doing subscription for DAZ AI but that's as far as I will go, find it useful for concept art, otherwise I would be sticking to Krita AI.

    I have paid for a couple AI image to video sites and used photographs and 3D renders

    quite impressed with the results 

    Was sticking to my hobby budget before, but now that I am not renewing DAZ+ and am starting to do my own models which means I will be spending less on purchases, then I will see how my budget pans out and might take up some other offers. Paying by PayPal will be a requisite though.

  • miladyderyni_173d399f47miladyderyni_173d399f47 Posts: 1,731
    edited October 23

    Torquinox said:

    miladyderyni_173d399f47 said:

    I've checked this thread, the reporting thread, & the +/Premier forum. Still nothing official from Daz about the sudden bundle changes. Not to mention, less than a month into Premier Tier and Daz is messing around with one of the perks.

    Bundles sometimes change, sometimes vanish without notice. I've seen it happen before. This is the biggest change I've seen, though. A lot of high profile bundles are affected. What is doing to the perks?

    "What is doing to the perks?"

    Call it an editing fail. I started post while the selection page was still Oops and forgot to delete that last question when I noticed it was live again. 

    ------

    One less item on my wishlist, then. I HAD the Minerva Christmas bundle on WL but I don't want to buy both the figure and the content for probably twice what I could get both for 2 days ago. I have sufficient similar content for Mrs. Claus renders

    Post edited by miladyderyni_173d399f47 on
  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 3,298
    edited October 23

    miladyderyni_173d399f47 said: 

    "What is doing to the perks?"

    Call it an editing fail. I started post while the selection page was still Oops and forgot to delete that last question when I noticed it was live again. 

    Oh I see. The page was an oops and then it was reactivated so nothing actually changed. Is that right? Thanks.

    Post edited by Torquinox on
  • miladyderyni_173d399f47miladyderyni_173d399f47 Posts: 1,731

    Torquinox said:

    miladyderyni_173d399f47 said: 

    "What is doing to the perks?"

    Call it an editing fail. I started post while the selection page was still Oops and forgot to delete that last question when I noticed it was live again. 

    Oh I see. The page was an oops and then it was reactivated so nothing actually changed. Is that right? Thanks.

    Close enough.

    There is a new working link at https://www.daz3d.com/premier-characters#index=3&filtered=1 & there you'll find the new/redone bundles currently eligible for the Premier free bundle coupon perk - Vicky 9, Walter 9, Tara 9, Lahr 9, Pixie 9, Lawrence 9, & Genghis Khan 9 HD Character Bundles.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,182

    Bunyip02 said:

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    Bunyip02 said:

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    Bunyip02 well mine says PayPal but I cannot click on it and in my account can only choose credit card

    it never was this complicated before and honestly I cannot be bothered as really cannot afford it anyway

    I thought I would join just one month on a whim but stuff that, DAZ's loss not mine devil

    If I can't buy a discounted yearly sub and pay for it with store credit its a big no from me.

    Am doing subscription for DAZ AI but that's as far as I will go, find it useful for concept art, otherwise I would be sticking to Krita AI.

    I have paid for a couple AI image to video sites and used photographs and 3D renders

    quite impressed with the results 

    Was sticking to my hobby budget before, but now that I am not renewing DAZ+ and am starting to do my own models which means I will be spending less on purchases, then I will see how my budget pans out and might take up some other offers. Paying by PayPal will be a requisite though.

    well I have tried now on multiple devices and browsers, I simply cannot sign up for DAZ+

    the universe has spoken cheeky

    I am wondering if it's just me though, didn't try premier to see if that works

  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 12,704

    I'm almost out of store credit. I need a really good gift card sale very soon. 

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,027
    edited October 24

    britscriptwriter said:

    SilverGirl said:

    Me: "Oh hey! 20% off wishlist items!"

    Me: (checks my priority wishlist items. Every single one of them is full price.)

    Me: "...or not."

    It seems the days of a wishlist discount plus potentially-excellent stacking opportunities with buy-ins are a thing of the past (unless I'm missing something other than a Premier membership...). Something to tell the grandkids about. On it's own, the wishlist offer is as disappointing as the general sale. 

    ...this offer was better during the PA sale as a good number of items on my wishlist were also in the Featured Artist Stores. 

    Post edited by kyoto kid on
  • TomhipTomhip Posts: 377

    Charlie Judge said:

    I'm almost out of store credit. I need a really good gift card sale very soon. 

    Literary just bough door buster and am down to 77 cents...

    On the bright sale after the  initial Premier dust settled the sale does not offer much beside door busters....

  • XiousDsXiousDs Posts: 371
    edited October 24
    Tomhip said:

    Charlie Judge said:

    I'm almost out of store credit. I need a really good gift card sale very soon. 

    Literary just bough door buster and am down to 77 cents...

    On the bright sale after the  initial Premier dust settled the sale does not offer much beside door busters....

    I have loved the $1 door busters, but that has been mostly the only thing to entice me to buy currently. Good thing is can wait a couple weeks to use my tokens when something pops up I really like. I would have bought a bunch of premier for a day items, but often their was only 1 or 2 I wanted that day and I did not want to buy a debut new item to get the discount so I just passed on it that day. The BYOB today is definitely blah. 5 daz+ items for $10 is not that special as a bunch of those can be had with tokens at about that price. If it stacked with tokens and other discounts that would be another story maybe. I will be happy when we start getting some super realistic characters again for the weekly release. The toon stuff is cool, but not something I am going to be using any time soon. Edit: The anniversary byob is stupid. A very large number of the items are cheaper by themselves by a lot with no tokens. Probably well over half of the items in the selection are cheaper just using tokens. Many of the items from the last couple years in the list could be had a few days ago for around $1 with stacking tokens on debut new or other special. Very, very, VERY, disappointing BYOB.
    Post edited by XiousDs on
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