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The Daz Studio and Related Product Deals Thread (Daz3D, Renderosity, Renderotica, etc.)

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Renderotica gives you these weird points when you buy something that you can use to lower the price for your next purchase a bit, but they expire super quickly, so it makes sense to split your orders into chunks to make use of the points.

I think I've never seen a Renderotica coupon ever.

In terms of sales 20% used to be pretty much their standard discount, but I think they changed it somewhat. It seems they do higher discounts now, but only on individual vendors. I assume they'll still do something like 20-25% the entire store for black friday or christmas.

They had one time where the entire store was 50% off in the last ~4 years.
Never seen a coupon on renderotica, but I have seen offer like "artist x at y% discount", and use it. About the points, never expired for me, but maybe is because I never keep a lot, and I used them (though I don't buy often stuff on Renderotica, mostly when there is a discount on something).

Renderosity for discount points seems to me the best - though I am biased by being prime there, it gives points a bit faster, and IMO most of the free assets every month are better than Daz.
Daz now has changed a bit things, I noticed the expiration of their "tokens" for discount is longer even for "normal" users, and the premier get the free bundle a month that can be good, plus the vouchers - but as far as I remember, one year of Daz premier costs more than one year of prime on Renderosity, so as someone else said, if one buys every month some 50 (their estimate) USD of stuff, Daz premier is good, otherwise, it may not be so convenient.
The positive side is that you can do it only for one month, but that is also the negative, because the old Daz+ you could for one year at a discount, the prime on renderosity I remember I did one year at a discount (if I remember correctly), the new Daz premier is only per month, there is "one year and you get the equvalent of one -two free months".
 

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When you guys were talking about Skin textures I wanted to say you should look at maelwenn: but then kind of didn't because it is all subjective anyways.

But, the guy has a new figure out today and I decided to buy it to check and I have to say, in terms of skin textures that look realistic maelwenn seems pretty damn good:

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However I also have to agree with Jumbi that the base figures are probably the easiest and best to look at if you have no big library yet and just want something good to start with. The base figures are all very well made, and they are relatively consistent quality wise. With PA's it is more hit and miss, earlier figures have a tendency to be shitty.
Manon, right ? Indeed, if she was a real person, I would find her very cute.
 

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Now I have items owned and not-owned in both
I had forgotten about Mega Bundles, haven't seen them in in a while ...

Not sure about the 'owned / not-owned' unless you mean that new the bundles have replaced products that were in the original bundle configuration with others that aren't owned; I have a lot of bundles; I find it more economic, even when they include some items that I wouldn't use.

I hate having 'partial' bundles or a full set of products for a bundle without the bundle (it's an OCD thing) and keep bookmarks of all them, waiting patiently for the 'Buy the bundle and only pay for what you don't own' deals to get the Bundle Metadata. Renderosity is good in that respect, if you buy one of their bundles they automatically discount the products you own.

What I am seeing is that the shuffling they are doing is moving one or two products out of the 'Starter' bundles to make them 'Character' bundles and replacing them with ones that were in other bundles or available separately as out-of-bundle add-ons, the overall the product count in the 'Starter' / 'Character' bundles seems to be the same and the 'Add-On' bundles make up the balance of what was a 'Pro' bundle with one or two exceptions with the exception of some which appear to have been discontinued.

It would be interesting to find out whether if you buy, for example, the if you still get the and which are still listed on the product page as being included but no longer listed in the store.

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I had forgotten about Mega Bundles, haven't seen them in in a while ...

Not sure about the 'owned / not-owned' unless you mean that new the bundles have replaced products that were in the original bundle configuration with others that aren't owned; I have a lot of bundles; I find it more economic, even when they include some items that I wouldn't use.

I hate having 'partial' bundles or sets of products for a bundle without the bundle (it's an OCD thing) and keep bookmarks of all them, waiting patiently for the 'Buy the bundle and only pay for what you don't own' to get the Bundle Metadata. Renderosity is good in that respect, if you buy one of their bundles they automatically discount the products you own.

What I am seeing is that the shuffling they are doing is moving one or two products out of the 'Starter' bundles to make them 'Character' bundles and replacing them with ones that were in other bundles or available separately as out-of-bundle add-ons, the overall the product count in the 'Starter' / 'Character' bundles seems to be the same and the 'Add-On' bundles make up the balance of what was a 'Pro' bundle with one or two exceptions where the exception of some which appear to have been discontinued.

It would be interesting to find out whether if you buy, for example, the if you still get the and which are still listed on the product page as being included but no longer listed in the store.

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I bought the Nightlife bundle I think some time ago, so now it looks like this to me:

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They're making these Character bundles for the Premier tier. You can pick a free bundle every month.
 
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There's an extra 20% off items wishlisted prior to October 23rd over at Daz3D.com as part of the usual sale today.

The door buster is Kibaretto's Super Stinger, if such things interest you.

Kibaretto and Xivon are part of today's featured artists. This asset reminds me a lot of Filly from the Fallout TV series. It has the general vibe at least.


The 'cheap' debut item is just an pose expression pack for Genesis 9. I usually ignore pose and expression packs as I have a bajillion already via freebies and bundle purchases, but if you need a cheap buy-in to trigger the other discounts, well there's that.
 
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This one made me giggle:

Shouldn't have really, but just goes to show how unreliable the whole thing is ...

Levels of trust in Daz Sales ethos diminishing every day.

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I know that lightning deals are different for everyone. This one showed up for me at a higher discount, so I grabbed it.



I have other virgin killer sweaters, but the other stuff included here is rather interesting. Might be worth wishlisting for later if you don't have it and enjoy vk sweaters!

The discount stacking with lightning deals seems to be monitored more closely these days/doesn't happen as much, but I'm still seeing a small handful of items leaking through. Of course, when catch up sales occur, the frequency of stacked discount lightning deals increases, but today isn't one of those days.
 
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Today Daz Sales Bargain:



- Coupon Code: DAZ-RULES
:unsure::rolleyes::unsure: $10.00 divided by 5 :cautious::unsure::confused: I think that's $2.00 each
:rolleyes::rolleyes::unsure::rolleyes: The first six items on the carousel total $6.00
The first five items on the store list are $0.90 each :rolleyes::unsure::rolleyes::rolleyes:
Wow! Daz knows how to treat their Daz+ and Premiere members to wonderful bargains
:D:D:D
 

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Today Daz Sales Bargain:



- Coupon Code: DAZ-RULES
:unsure::rolleyes::unsure: $10.00 divided by 5 :cautious::unsure::confused: I think that's $2.00 each
:rolleyes::rolleyes::unsure::rolleyes: The first six items on the carousel total $6.00
The first five items on the store list are $0.90 each :rolleyes::unsure::rolleyes::rolleyes:
Wow! Daz knows how to treat their Daz+ and Premiere members to wonderful bargains
:D:D:D
Just noting something here. With deals like this, I recommend sorting prices from high to low, that way you can maximize your bargain. And yeah, if the price of the item after discount stacking is already under $2, or near $2, definitely pick something else!
 

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I recommend sorting prices from high to low
Yes, it is a standard process, that and the Daz-Deals sort by % if you have it. I think though the the Marketing Intern needs to learn a bit of arithmetic and how to hook folk into the "deal", even my failing numeric ability spotted that (HINT [if they read this]: - sort the carousel and store list High to low, that'd be a better hook) ... I got 7 Daz+ items from today's promos for less than $2.00 each (average, one new one was just over $2.00) without using the coupon, just stacking and tokens ...
 
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Another frustrating thing about said 5 for $10 sale is that the linked Daz+ items page has new items on it, which are NOT eligible for said offer. Just applied the coupon and two of the items were not discounting, I had not noticed the 'fine print' under the sale carousel on the Premier Sale page about new items not being eligible...
 
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Another frustrating thing about said 5 for $10 sale is that the linked Daz+ items page has new items on it, which are NOT eligible for said offer. Just applied the coupon and two of the items were not discounting, I had not noticed the 'fine print' under the sale carousel on the Premier Sale page about new items not being eligible...
Today's deal seems to just be a re-working of yesterday's Anniversary BYOB, which failed me as few of my 7 are 'New' items, I have most of the "Old" items I want, just waiting for the remainder to come close to or beat their historic low (Daz-Deals price history) a lot of which have been sub $2.00 ...
 
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On another note, hey look, another school bundle, for all of those 18+ year old hottie high school students, 'cuz of course everyone at said school in your Game/VN will be 18 or older...



Something to wishlist for later maybe.
 
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On another note, hey look, another school bundle, for all of those 18+ year old hottie high school students, 'cuz of course everyone at said school in your Game/VN will be 18 or older...



Something to wishlist for later maybe.
There is no shame in being a "Mature" Student ;)
 
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On another note, hey look, another school bundle, for all of those 18+ year old hottie high school students, 'cuz of course everyone at said school in your Game/VN will be 18 or older...



Something to wishlist for later maybe.
This bundle has some very nice assets, but the bundle price ($58) and the sum of the assets prices ($61) are almost identical.

Indeed, I notice that bundles are less and less interesting. It was common a few years ago to have a 40-50% discount (bundle price vs individuals items prices). But this never happens now. For instance, the "Mikey9" bundle is $100 while its assets are $145 (30% discount). And for non-DO bundles it is worse: For today's "Spooky essential pack", it is $32 vs $41 (21%), for "CB Ramsay" $55 vs $70 (21%), etc
But for the high school bundle, just 5%... WTF?
 

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/rant on

Premier still feels like a kick in the teeth to Daz+ members IMHO.

Nonetheless, I refuse to buy Premier until my Daz+ subscription runs out in 2026, unless something changes.

I'm sure I would have saved a significant amount of cash if I had taken the Premier offer, but going forward I plan to curtail my shopping at Daz3D.com once this sale is over, and just want to eek out as much value out of the two $6/month coupons as I can in the coming months, as opposed to paying $20 a month for the privilege.

I wasn't going to go hog wild this week, but I ended up buying a bunch of stuff over the last few days, and now I'm seriously considering a 15% off gift card recharge. Normally I won't budge unless it's 19% or higher, but yeah the Premier thing has kind of fucked that up, and my banked store credit balance is now below $100.

I doubt that they will just do a 'blanket' gift card discount without tiers for membership levels going into the future, which pisses me off. As a longtime Daz customer (approaching 8 years), yeah way to piss off your longtime customers Daz3D.com!

No particular deals to call out over at Daz3D.com atm, it's a 'catch up' sale with a lamer gift card sale. Others may find something interesting, I've mostly been 'catching up' with buying a bunch of Lilflame stuff and associated Anagord texture addons that have been removed from Renderosity's market.

I would have bought those over at Renderosity eventually, but since those vendors seem to be moving towards going 'all in' at Daz3D.com, along with a few others, yeah I feel sad for Renderosity.

Not sure if said vendors have become more annoyed with Renderosity in general, or just want to take advantage of the significanlty increased sales volume vs. Renderosity at Daz3D.com, which gets a lot more traffic. I know there's a bit more animosity these days regarding that subject, but as others have pointed out, having more sites that compete with Daz3D.com is better for the consumer in general, otherwise Daz3D.com will just keep raising prices.

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This bundle has some very nice assets, but the bundle price ($58) and the sum of the assets prices ($61) are almost identical.

Indeed, I notice that bundles are less and less interesting. It was common a few years ago to have a 40-50% discount (bundle price vs individuals items prices). But this never happens now. For instance, the "Mikey9" bundle is $100 while its assets are $145 (30% discount). And for non-DO bundles it is worse: For today's "Spooky essential pack", it is $32 vs $41 (21%), for "CB Ramsay" $55 vs $70 (21%), etc
But for the high school bundle, just 5%... WTF?
Actually, the bundle right now is telling me 40.59USD, vs a full bundle price of 59USD. So, they upped the discount a bit. At the same time, the uniform and the school together with their own discount make 30.69USD, and the poses, do not seem something special that you cannot get from elsewhere, eventually with minor adjustements, so, the poses are not worth the difference (unless you have no poses).
About age, well, the models they used for the poses, but also for the uniform, if they wait a few years could have their own kids in school :p :-D, it's true that in general Hollywood gets 22-25 yo to play the role of junior high school students (and I mean, even in movies where there is not even a suggestion of possible nudity off screen), but they are really going a bit far with the "better safe than sorry" :-D
 

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I wasn't going to go hog wild this week, but I ended up buying a bunch of stuff over the last few days, and now I'm seriously considering a 15% off gift card recharge. Normally I won't budge unless it's 19% or higher, but yeah the Premier thing has kind of fucked that up, and my banked store credit balance is now below $100.

I doubt that they will just do a 'blanket' gift card discount without tiers for membership levels going into the future, which pisses me off. As a longtime Daz customer (approaching 8 years), yeah way to piss off your longtime customers Daz3D.com!
Think on the good side, at least you're not me that has only $8 left :cry:
 
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