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I'd like to start a boycott of Daz's stuff until they smarten up. From what I'm seeing in that thread in their forum, one may be starting on it's own.
It's hilarious, they took down ManFriday's plugins, so if you want to use Render Queue or Pose Converter you have to buy their bullshit subscription.
Thank God for sites like this.The big question is : How long until they "kill off" the downloaded earlier versions of the plug-ins, by making changes in updates to DAZ studio to make them incompatible with the newest release.
They are just about douchey enough to do that.
@Gts6 they said plugins will have to be updated for DS5 since it runs on a newer version of QT.
'Studio 5'?!
Cue the sounds of Ethiopia falling over and laughing hysterically until tears run down her cheeks.
"Studio 5 you say?"
Never gonna happen."Studio 5 you say?" Never gonna happen."
I agree with Ethiopia but this may in fact be Daz softening us up for DS5, ie. acclimatising us to DS5 being a full cloud subscription model, with Premier being the thin end of that wedge.
Would that surprise anyone?
They could still make changes in version 4.XX to break things whenever they feel like it. I wouldnt install any updated versions anymore unless they have been inspected very well to make sure everythings working
@frank22, Hmmmm...it's possible of course but I don't think so. Someone here who had(?) a bit of inside info on Daz said that Daz had shed some employees after being taken over by Tafi. I'm figuring that it was the tech end and programmers. Daz's already horrible tech support became non-existent and any mention of Studio 5 was met with vague answers (by that shill Haseltine) designed to deflect questions and placate us. Other companies tease customers with frequent reports on any new software in order to keep the interest up.
Tafi seems to be trying to make themselves into a graphics empire but they sure don't know the customers or creators very well. They're called equity firms and these parasites leave a trail of ruined companies in their wake.Perhaps, but I don't think the technicians or programmers have any say in DS's direction. As you imply, the decisions are being made by the Tafi bean-counters. I doubt even the hierarchy of Daz Corp. have much (if any) input to as where DS is heading.
Getting rid of their programmers is not a show-stopper. They can simply hire new ones, or even outsource the job to other programmers.
Daz has always suffered from a lack of staff with very poor QA and support. I get the impression it's very much a shoe-string operation behind the scenes, and now even more so since Tafi took over.
Oh look! The site is falling apart as we speak!
And Google is flagging DAZ as having suspicious automated activity!
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/704696/google-doesn-t-even-want-me-visiting-the-daz-forum
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