Cresent wrote:

Plat Club members get first crack at trying to break it.  After we beat it into submission, it will get released into general population for more abuse.

We've been getting kinda rowdy over at the DAZ forum screaming, "Is it there yet?  Is it there yet?" every 5 minutes.  ;-)

LOL .  Well, DAZ delayed the release to the PC members by a week.  This past Friday, they sent out a newsletter stating "4 days and counting..." which would make it yesterday, unless they were counting in business days. :)  To date, D|S is still not released, and the PTBs at DAZ are quiet..  I was excited at first, but I think this pretty much describes my attitude now.   I'm a pessimist, so I hit the "believe it when I see it" stage fairly quickly.

Farside wrote:

 welcome back, with any luck it'll only take Daz a year to get the bugs worked out and for the Beta version to become the "official release" version.  Then we begin to find out how much D|S will end up costing people.

The first info posted about D|S stated that the base version would be free, but the statement was removed in later updates to the D|S product page.  Some people have stated that Steve K. says the base will still be free, but I have not personally seen such a statement.  I think that there will be a basic and a pro version of the product.  The basic will be free, but not the pro version.  Who knows?