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

[Schlongborn]

Just FYI for anyone looking in here trying to tell if the Black Friday sale that is currently going on is good: it is not.

You have to go through the entire list there and find 6 items you like, and then you can only pick 6, not more. That alone is annoying enough to make me not want to do it. But then the discount ends up only like 82% or so with tokens, that's not very good either.

Gift card sale is also worse then the last one just a week or so ago for 25% off.

 

[Jumbi]

Hello folks,

About the gift cards tokens expiring on November 20, I read a mod on the Daz forums saying that it's a bug Daz is working on. Nonetheless, this has been happening for some days now and so far it's not been fixed. Seriously, if you happen to watch

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, you'll soon notice that errors (some more important, others less) in the sales are a constant. If it wasn't for the feedback that customers offer in that thread and the watchful eye of the moderators in response to that feedback, buying on the Daz store would turn out an unpleasant experience for sure.

EDIT: I just fixed the link above, so that it leads to the thread for reporting sales issues on the Daz store instead.

EDIT 2: It's the tokens expiration date that is bugged at the moment, not the gift cards'. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

 

[SvenVlad]

Hello folks,

About the gift cards expiring on November 20, I read a mod on the Daz forums saying that it's a bug Daz is working on. Nonetheless, this has been happening for some days now and so far it's not been fixed. Seriously, if you happen to watch

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, you'll soon notice that errors (some more important, others less) in the sales are a constant. If it wasn't for the feedback that customers offer in that thread and the watchful eye of the moderators in response to that feedback, buying on the Daz store would turn out an unpleasant experience for sure.

EDIT: I just fixed the link above, so that it leads to the thread for reporting sales issues on the Daz store instead.

The gift cards expiring? What? Don't you mean tokens?

 

[Jumbi]

The gift cards expiring? What? Don't you mean tokens?

LOL You got it right. Excuse me, sir, that's my Alzheimer's showing off.

 

[SvenVlad]

LOL You got it right. Excuse me, sir, that's my Alzheimer's showing off.

We've all been there

 

[oaiki]

We've all been there

Where? ... When?

 

[OhWee]

Looks like the token issue over at Daz3D.com is fixed for now. My tokens are now showing the proper expiration dates.

 

[Schlongborn]

If you have tokens you can get a couple of bundles for >95% off here:

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Need to put a new release into the cart as well though.

EDIT: Mmm, seems to only work for some of them, I tried with Calypso 9 and it worked, but others seem to not give the same discount. Either way, it seems worth trying at least.

 

[oaiki]

If you have tokens you can get a couple of bundles for >95% off here:

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Need to put a new release into the cart as well though.

EDIT: Mmm, seems to only work for some of them, I tried with Calypso 9 and it worked, but others seem to not give the same discount. Either way, it seems worth trying at least.

I had a similar issue ... I think the 'Up to 5' actually means 1 to 4 ... I couldn't for the likes of me find a fifth that gave me the 75% off ...

 

[Schlongborn]

Oh, they changed the sale I linked, now all the items in my card are expensive again. The bundles were better before imho, but you can get a different set of bundles now, so might be worth checking again.

 

[OhWee]

So, there's an 'extra 30% off wishlist items' promo over at Daz3D.com. There may be discount stacking opportunities here.

Unfortunately, the other sales that are active at the moment seem to have fairly steep buy-ins. I haven't spotted any prereq items below $11, although other prereqs and tokens may be able to help with this. My 'buy-in' new release ended up being around $8-9 after applying a few tokens and also adding 'featured artist' items to increase the discount on the new item if I remember correctly.

Daz Plus items seem to be 'immune' to the other sales currently running. The new-new releases have their introductory discount, but I didn't spot any other plus items with extra discounts, as they weren't included with the discounted featured artist items.

Also, on a related note, I've noted that a few of the Vanishing Point items (the Daz Studio versions) have went inactive at Daz3D.com, but weirdly their Poser counterparts are still currently active.

Also, I came across a product that I purchased last week from one of the Renderosity transplant vendors that had a different product in the DIM package than the one I bought (honest mistake, I won't call out the vendor in question here). So far Daz Customer Service hasn't responded to my inquiry about this. It's been about six days since I submitted my ticket. Ticket is still open at least. Just be aware that Daz Customer Service moves like molasses sometimes.

I also noted the 'finger' to Plus members regarding the $3 HDRI offer. Premier members get a cheaper ($2) offer, but not Plus members, we get the same price as 'regular' customers.

 

[Jumbi]

I also noted the 'finger' to Plus members regarding the $3 HDRI offer. Premier members get a cheaper ($2) offer, but not Plus members, we get the same price as 'regular' customers.

Yes, it's been a few times already in the last sales that they are giving a discount only to Premier members and putting us Daz+ folks together with base customers.

 

[oaiki]

Yes, it's been a few times already in the last sales that they are giving a discount only to Premier members and putting us Daz+ folks together with base customers.

Same again today, plus they are making you work to find suitable Black Friday deals ...

There no longer seems to be any real advantage, apart from the weekly and monthly freebies and the Daz+ release discount, to being a Daz+ Member.

Given that I will not transition to the Premiere Subscription Model it looks like I will not renew my Daz+ Membership when it expires in two years time; particularly as I often do not take advantage of the Freebies and Release Discount if the items do not fit in my vision, whilst free is free disk space isn't and there is no point in buying something that I am extremely unlikely to use.

If they want to maintain a 3 Tier system the should provide better incentives to climb the tiers; I think Daz+ will die a slow and painful death as folk's current subscriptions run out.

Ah well! I've plenty of time to see how it goes ...

 

[Jumbi]

Same again today, plus they are making you work to find suitable Black Friday deals ...

There no longer seems to be any real advantage, apart from the weekly and monthly freebies and the Daz+ release discount, to being a Daz+ Member.

Given that I will not transition to the Premiere Subscription Model it looks like I will not renew my Daz+ Membership when it expires in two years time; particularly as I often do not take advantage of the Freebies and Release Discount if the items do not fit in my vision, whilst free is free disk space isn't and there is no point in buying something that I am extremely unlikely to use.

If they want to maintain a 3 Tier system the should provide better incentives to climb the tiers; I think Daz+ will die a slow and painful death as folk's current subscriptions run out.

Ah well! I've plenty of time to see how it goes ...

Yes, that certainly seems to be the case. Also, as someone commented on the Daz forums, since all of the latest sales are behind coupon codes, finding a way to give decent use to the Daz+ coupons is proving to be difficult at the moment as well. I still have my two coupons for this month unused.

On the freebies matter, unless I misunderstood, you could still get them and not install them. That way, even if they do not interest you enough to have them installed on your system, you could still own them. I don't know... I suppose I'm just too fond of free things to let them pass by.

 

[oaiki]

you could still own them. I don't know... I suppose I'm just too fond of free things to let them pass by.

I guess it is a trust issue ... If I own it, free or otherwise (but isn't really free, my Daz+ membership has paid for them), I want it held locally and backed up; to date I have been happy to forgo the dross as I still see the benefit from from those I do download ... My Daz Garden is flourishing with the huge variety of flora I have collected. I am able to pretend I am following in my hero Jagadish Chandra Bose's footsteps without needing to step foot outside my door...

Also, I am not at all fond of the "Cloud" thing and as Daz moves DS towards subscription oriented content I don't think it is beyond them to re-classify content and then Whoosh! it's gone...

finding a way to give decent use to the Daz+ coupons is proving to be difficult

That too, mind you Premiere Members will be suffering from that also ...

 

[OhWee]

Yeah Cock, errr Coupon Blocking has been an ongoing issue. Thankfully, I burned my Plus coupons at the beginning of the month, but at this point not much is interesting me sales wise. If it hadn't been for the transplant vendors from Renderosity, this year's PA and Plus sales would have been quite disappointing for me.

I hear y'all on the drive space thing. Thankfully, I've seen a few deals on spinning rust drives for backup purposes. My 8 TB SSD is below 200 GB again, and it's time to move my Daz install packages onto another drive. This should free up 2 TB of space for me, which will buy me some more time, but at some point I'll be shopping for a larger SSD. Supposedly spinning rust drives aren't that much slower when it comes to Daz installs, but Genesis 8 already takes a long time to load thanks to all of the G8 characters I've bought/acquired over the years. So I'm stubbornly keeping my main Daz install on SSD, to minimize the load times as best I can.

Genesis 2 has much faster load times, mostly due to the lower number of characters created for G2, so I'm making it a point to include a few G2 characters in my current projects.

The problem with the Black Friday deals over at Daz3D.com is that I've already grabbed almost all of the assets that I really want that end up in those sales, so I'm in no hurry to grab stuff. the discount stacking, when it happens with lightning deals, isn't good enough either, so it's given me an excuse to just stop shopping and focus more on actually using some of the assets I have.

My virtual harem is big enough anyways, and with the G2/3/8 morph packages I have, well I have lots of options when trying to invoke various character types for my current project.

I'm starting to pay more attention to the Renderosity sales. The current 65% off sales trend is promising. Not as good as Daz3D.com sales, but good enough to entice me to look for deals on stuff I want anyways.

C'est La Vie...

 

[jkjyuio]

Yes, there are a bunch of things i'd get from rendo if they started putting out 65%+ deals. The usual 50% is just not tempting enough (since also the pre-sale prices are generally higher than daz in the first place).
On another note, i'm not seeing anything tempting at all with this black friday stuff. so far i havent bagged anything. ho hum.

 

[OhWee]

There's some kind of punch card sale going on at Daz3D.com.

There's also a 'free today, gone tomorrow' freebie. It's some sort of gnome thingie...

Anyways, back to the punch cards, if you accumulate them for multiple days in a row, you get bigger discounts. Usual Daz sales team silliness, ymmv.

A bunch of stuff is discounted, and these seem to be bleeding over to lightning deals.

I'll leave it to you professionals to spot the deals. I'm kind of burned out on Daz3D.com shopping atm.

 

[Jumbi]

Hi,

If you are subscribed to Renderosity's newsletter, chances are that you've got an email notifying of this. Anyway, from today and for the next twelve days, I think, they are giving away one Daz Studio and one Poser item each day to all members. Today's DS freebie is interesting IMHO. The lady has quite the distinct look.

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Remember to check daily for the rest of the gifts.

 

[OhWee]

Hi,

If you are subscribed to Renderosity's newsletter, chances are that you've got an email notifying of this. Anyway, from today and for the next twelve days, I think, they are giving away one Daz Studio and one Poser item each day to all members. Today's DS freebie is interesting IMHO. The lady has quite the distinct look.

You must be registered to see the links

Remember to check daily for the rest of the gifts.

Just a quick note for those that may not be aware, that Poser assets will usually still work in Daz Studio, well unless they are fairly new character assets (say La Femme, etc.). Actually, I've never tried to load La Femme in Daz Studio, so I have no idea how much work that would be, or if it's even possible.

The gas station should load just fine though in DS probably. You may feel the need to use a few shaders though, depending on the Poser texture quality, or perhaps just do the Iray Uber Base shader thing.