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... so this will be the next shit show. Almost $20 per month for some additional discounts, improved exporters and essentially the included Mesh Grabebr tool.
Sit back and enjoy the rage. Cookies, anyone?
Yes, so now they have two elite tiers.
Why not just upgrade the first elite tier, to keep it simple?
Their marketing is always complex & confusing.
They would probably get a lot more sales if they just kept it simple enough so that folks could easily understand it!
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Been reading about a bit tonight. It's a mess - considering the issue that yearly memberships won't be available anymore. I don't like the idea on monthly subscriptions. I try to avoid them where ever I can online. I'll decide next year if I'll continue with mine or wait and see what happens. Daz+ will cost $50 more per year, if I continue. Makes it worse when I convert into Australian dollars.
For me there just aren't sufficient good quality on topic releases at Daz that actually come close to making either Daz elite membership even worth considering. :0/
Of course they had to lock the most requested plugin, a Genesis 1,2,3,8/8.1 to Genesis 9 converter behind the DAZ Premier subscription.
EDIT: turns out to be one of ManFriday’s plugins. They literally took his plugins and bundled it into DAZ Studio Premier.
First all the AI non sense nobody wanted.
Now no Daz Original Bundle in more than a month (Toshi Kaede etc were the last on very luckluster cadence), gatekeep most requested features behind a paywall, the quality of the content and it's promos in the shop plummeting non stop with filler non sense now that most PA seem to have left...AI is the reason why they’re going down this route. They are losing so much cash that they’re desperately wanting it back.
The bundles were outrageously expensive even after they stopped using FOMO tactics for the extra shapes, so of course they stopped selling new ones.
The PAs leaving in droves is another reason why they’ve been picking up Renderosity vendors. And I don’t think it’ll be long before they move back to other marketplaces.
DAZ is in a full freefall (thanks VCs) and seeing that Unreal Engine is getting a built in character creator tool is probably putting DAZ back even further into irrelevancy
We'd all better keep our copies of Studio since Daz can't have much time left as it slides into the toilet called 'enshitification'. The thread in Daz's forums has nothing good to say. Score another loss for Tafi.
@Ethiopia I wouldn’t be surprised if 4.22 will be the last “free” and offline version of DAZ Studio since from what’s happening, version 4.23 will probably have a fully online release with no offline functionality, especially with the upcoming AI character creation tool…
@eelgoo,
Someone mentioned here a while back that we could find ourselves being the repository or archive for
all the Daz/Poser stuff when the companies finally go under because they've been stupid.@tetera, I don't think it's going to work that way. I believe that you'll need to be logged into their servers to access the premiere services since they'll exist ONLY on the servers. It'll work much like the existing AI generators.
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