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I'm taking the attitude of assuming that we'll be looking at losing a large number of the plug-ins, whether the PA is still around or not, to the point where I may opt to remain with DS4. That's certainly how it played out last time, where I lost several dozen plug-ins even though some of those PAs not only remained extremely active in the store, but are still active (Dreamlight... cough cough) and at least one was actually made by DAZ itself (Figure Mixer). At the very least, beside GenX, I'm bracing for most support for Optitex dynamic products to drop, as well as the more advanced 3DL shaders and lighting. Not that I'm saying that that WILL happen, as I have no inside information, but it feels likely that the introduction of DS5 will be the optimum time to drop/stop paying licensing for products that really haven't been supported for years.
Yeah I was disappointed when I saw that, as I would of bought Aiko Anime 9 to compliment what I have recently bought. Hopefully with anything new incoming they don't, but with how things are it is a case of who the heck knows now.
I'd be more disappointed if it weren't for the fact that there really isn't much to Aiko 9 Anime other than the name. It's not as though there aren't already a ton of decent toon-style figures already available for Genesis9... in fact, it's the really the one niche where I think the G9s have truly shined... and dialing up something close to A9 doesn't look like it will be all that difficult, especially if one imports the Sakura 8 shape. As a long running plan it would seem like a really dumb idea to continue wasting Brand names that are strongly associated with full base figure sets for something that's little more than a shape and a PR stunt, but DAZ has quite happily done equally ridiculous things in the past...
Probably "keep it around" like they have verion 2 and 3 - the final release version will be in our product library availablle for download; if we want to have access to any other version we will need to archive it. And be sure to archive everything if you go that route - Daz Studio, all the Daz and third party plugins and all the 'starter essentials'.
But once 5.x arrives I expect all work on 4.5 to stop.
If you mean get a discount on premier membership until the end of your current Daz+ membership, the answer is no.
If you use the offer to switch to Premier membership, you will get the 2 months offered instead of your remaining Daz+ months. The number of months offered to you was computed based on what you paid for your Daz+ membership.
You could join the membership without upgrading DS to get the discounts, but if you want to use the premier plugins you will need DS 4.23, they won't work with earlier versions of DS.
Many years ago I was obsessed with the idea of saving all the original install files. I think that was when I still wanted to do manual installs.
I wanted the "exe" install files (Windows) as well as the Apple-format files. But I kept running out of hard drive space.
Gradually, over the years, I bought larger hard drives. And I became more selective in what I saved.
Well, forum protests don't directly reach Daz - they have only our ragged and bruised appearance to go by. And if the torcch and pitchfork waving throng storming the castle is not sufficiently impressive (as judged by the state of the coffers) it can actually send the opposite message.
Believe me, I'd rather send feedback directly, but the option for general feedback no longer appears in the support ticket form. So I'm left with little to do but stop spending money and vent in the forums in the hopes someone there might glance at the thread someday.
trhancock comment split from: Installing, activating, and accessing Daz Studio Premier features and merged here.
...I have a collection of installers that goes back to ver.1.8.
Why am I suddenly seeing a whole bunch of manually added to my account Premier Items, about half of them marked inactive? It has to be a mistake. I'm not in Premier, and assume these are not even usable for a peasant DAZ+ user (I also can't be *rsed to find out, tbh).
I can barely find my purchases from today among all the garbage files.
I have something similar. My guess is it has been added to all, and then will become 'active' if joining Premier.
Why that way... no idea. Maybe it was the easiest way to manage for Daz.
.I'm not even Daz+ and they apear. Inactive are the beta versions, the 'regular' one does not show as inactive, can be download from site and are available via DIM.
In the library i can even see ElfVicky and Aiko 9. But not able to download on site and do not apear on DIM. Do show grayed if i login to connect.
It has to be a mistake, surely. I've just clicked the select all box in DIM and ended up downloadubg a bunch of plugins for random builds I don't have. They - unsurprisingly without a path to the required builds - don't even install.
Could be it; oh well, they'll be out of sight then when I make it to another page of stuff in there
I just asked about this in https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/704811/premier-membership-faq-questions-only-please#latest because I couldn't think of another place to put it. I wasn't sure if someone had activated a Premiere membership on me without my knowledge. Still DAZ+ only.
It's either DS plu
I guess I will probably be sticking with 4.21 that I have now and know it works, and probably doesn't have any DRM malware built in. Better guard the installer with my life I guess, will have to go in the moat next to my copy of photoshop pre cloud crap lol.
Connect has been prsent in DS for many years and versions, and that is what is used for the content. I don't know about the plug-in toggle, but I think there was stuff in the chnage log relating to plug-in activation around the time they added the face Transfer tool (which can be used to Save only three times). Nothing is being taken away, just new tools (or new versions of older PA tools, which still work) added.
This new membership thing just sounds bad, especially at a time like this, or at least here in the U.S. with a bad economy and inflation being the way it is.. I suspect a fair number of people may not take a paying membership. My Daz Membership expires in dec and I'm not sure I will be able to renew, just can't afford these price hikes. So Daz+ will now be $100.00 a year, with evidently no option for quarterly pricing. I think that other store is charging 39 yearly, and even then that's a price reduction after a price hike which quite obviously did not work out for them, not now, not with inflation and some world economies being what they are. Hope Daz don't make a mistake.
Answer to Totte and others:
Inflation is no justification for such a drastic increase (from PC to DAZ+) of $50. It could have been adjusted over the years. I wouldn't have said anything about $10, but $50 has no real justification. There is no equivalent value.
I wonder why DAZ then throws out or offers things for "poor" on the other hand.
I also looked at the premium account. There are some nice things in it, but you don't really need it.
- The plugins are certainly useful, but you can live without them.
- I haven't bought the original bundles for a long time. Firstly, I don't need the 100th version of G9F or G9M just because the new character has a freckle on the cheek and secondly, the bundles usually contain a lot of for me useless things. I prefer to buy the individual items, like certain clothes, separately.
- There are also storage space reasons: I have 2 large hard drives, but they will also be full at some point if I keep buying so much. My PC is already having problems starting up because of this, even though it's new.
- I'm sure one or two bundles will "itch" me, but I'll have to practice doing without more in the future.
- Whether I get $15 or $10 now... well... nice, but not soooo relevant.
- I will miss the 2x $6 discount per month, though.
It's funny. I was a plus member for a long time. I accepted the offer to go Premiere. Everything was fine. But today I just noticed that I am a Basic member. I nver got any notice from Daz. Or from my credit card company for that matter. Not sure what happened. Guess I'll take my time and decide what I want to do now.
Edited to fix spelling mistakes I didn't notice.
Well, I see that ist's fixed now.
i've been dumped too yet the membership is supposed to renew automatically... i guess it's just another function of Daz that does't work as advertised.
Anyway i don't feel like there's any rush to rejoin, so if Daz is happy with this arrangement then i guess i am too.
I was able to pass your details over for checking and yes, they fixed it since you had Auto-renew on and seemed happy to do that from your previous post.
Yes thank you for that, Richard!