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Aiko 9 is exclusive to Premier users. It's shape only, and must be installed from inside the Daz Studio. Additionally, when your Premier subscription runs out, every Premier-exclusive product will refuse to open.
Insane.also, @phegor Akio 9 was ANOTHER highly requested shape, so of course they would lock it behind the paywall. DAZ is locking up ANYTHING that is known to make a lot of money, which is another sign of desperation.
and i also see that many are ALREADY canceling their premier subscriptions because of how bad it is.
DAZ is pushing it towards the "big spenders". and all of the offers, bundles, etc that comes with DAZ Premier, guess what? they already have them. it's completely worthless to "big spenders".
Premier is such a complete failure to everyone (including their target customers), one of two things will happen: DAZ continues to push Premier until the next fiscal quarter, and stop due to how much money is lost. or DAZ continues to push Premier until they shut down (ie what e-on - makers of Vue - did).
Additionally, when your Premier subscription runs out, every Premier-exclusive product will refuse to open.
But how is this even enforceable technically? Even if it were released through Connect, only the installable packages are encrypted. Unlike DSE scripts, the content files, once installed, are not encrypted. I checked the Connect functionality in 4.23 and it still works that way. So, once the content is installed, what prevents anyone from manually creating a zip archive of the premier content?
After the subscription expires (or in the absence of it), that content can then be extracted into your regular library with the internal folder structure intact. Sure, the metadata for smart content may no longer be usable, which is again, enforceable through flags set in the database tables. Given how easy it is to access the CMS from outside of Studio, what prevent anyone from resetting those flags to re-enable the smart content?
Or, did they implement an entirely different Connect functionality for those premier content?
DAZ is pushing it towards the "big spenders". and all of the offers, bundles, etc that comes with DAZ Premier, guess what? they already have them. it's completely worthless to "big spenders".
The way I see it, it ain't targeted towards existing whales, but towards luring "potential" whales who do not spend regularly. It just creates a FOMO for them if they don't keep their cash flowing into Daz pockets every month.
Personally I don't think that those who do not spend regularly would be enticed to fork out for Premier. It's most likely aimed directly at Daz+ members to get them to switch over. Small spenders are unlikely to change their spending habits if they weren't already Daz+ members..
@Frank22 that's exactly the point! normal "basic users" can't jump to Premier (that option is greyed out), they have to have an active subscription of DAZ+ to even qualify
I didn't know that was the case. So when Daz+ ends, there's nobody left to join up to Premier?
I'd love to know the buying habit breakdown of customers. I'm sure there's a few people who buy lots and lots of people who buy sporadically. I would say that most users are on the lower end of the buying slope.
Then there's us, where do we fit in with our 28,000 members. How much do we 'contribute' to the spread of items? It can't be THAT much judging from my own sharing experience. Most items only see a few dozen downloads and only over the first few days they're offered. I've never had anything be downloaded over 100 times. Considering the number of members, that's not much. We can't be taking away many sales.Maybe that's why they're not going hard against pirates.
"I'd like to hold off on sharing for at least a month so that the creator can make some money".... so do I.Id be interested to know have many of those accounts are dead.
@d0gg0d, We where at 30K a few months ago and Hunter purged a pile of the inactive ones and we went down to 19K(?). It hasn't taken long to gather another 10K. We know that many people use VPNs to enable the creation of many, many accounts simply in order to get lots of points.
Requests get filled and the number of downloads will be however many people requested the item (give or take a couple either way). Once something hits the blog, as you observed, it gets a couple of dozen d/l's before it gets shared on one of the leech sites and then downloads here dry up. 5 or 6 years ago, some shares would get 200 downloads or more here and sharers would still be getting points months (or sometimes years) after they shared. Now, it lasts days (or hours) and then it's off to L3d or RS for most folks.
If their wasn't a point system most DLs would stay here and bogus accounts would dry up.
The points system seems to mostly work since people are after points and its an incentive for some reason. I think for mostly new members. People that are in the level 3+ maybe even 2 range have no need for points. People that frequently share or share one pumped-up item will get more points than they'll ever spend.
When I was rolling in points I DLed almost the entire site then started running contests and even then I didn't have half of what some people have. Now I'll usually offer points for items I want or think Ill use. Other items Ill get from other sites just to have them. Ive started to get picky since I use about 1% or less of what I actually download.
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