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Holy mackerel! I thought it was a joke. Or a mistake. But nope, Daz really means it!!!

:rushes off to put it in my cart: Now all I gotta do is figure out what to do with it. :-)

Wow!

Who saw that coming?

Surely not me! The most I was expecting was about the same as Bryce 5.5. This is too good to pass up!

Sorry, I am not a platinum club member, and when I click on that link I get the front page of DAZ. I pre-ordered Hexagon 2, and I would like to know what is going on. Can someone paste the official news for people who are not platinum club members?

All I have to say is W...T...F?
Of course I just bought it, but...huh?
A lot of people are going to be happy and a lot of people aren't!

This one oughta take you to the announcement thread w/all the relevant details. :-)

http://forum.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=35961&highlight=

Ok, I am glad for all the people buying Hexagon 2 for $2, and for once I cannot say anything bad about DAZ, lol.

I am a little bit miffed at the Eovia staff who must have known when I bought Hexagon 2 for $298 three weeks ago that they were selling the company. (Just so that you know, the price from Eovia for Hexagon 2 was $298, because they charged non-USA buyers in Euro.)

Let me see. How much have I spent at DAZ since I started with 3D? Nothing.

So I get a membership for $30, a $100 voucher I will never use, and I will get Hexagon 2, maybe with the Golden Pack that I am supposed to get when I pre-ordered it, all this for only $298.

So much for the Eovia staff saying you will make a saving if you pre-order.

w00t! bought it!

There must be something in the DAZ store you can use, isn't there?  Feel free to pass along your voucher if you don't want it.  :-P

Butterfly, even if I use my voucher and the membership, Hexagon is still costing me $168, that is my point. And there is still no mention as to whether I get the golden pack that I am supposed to get for pre-ordering from Eovia.

That is a must buy.

Anyone who ever wanted a modeller should run and go get it now. Personally I think waiting for V4 is better but now is good too.

I have no need for another modelelr, but $30-ish isn't much at all.

I just purchased Carrara Pro ... and you know that it'll be on sale for like $29.95 at DAZ in a couple days or weeks.  And, yes, I is a PC member - wonder if they'll work something out? ;)

dear helgard -- why don't you send an email to sales@eovia.com with your order number; from posts in the daz forum i gather that this might be the quickest way to get resolution (as opposed to kvetching in a forum that has nothing whatsoever to do with DAZ or eovia). i am fairly confident they have anticipated this, and since you say you bought hexagon 3 weeks ago, your 30 day money-back guarantee is in place anyway.

Pleonastic,

"as opposed to kvetching in a forum that has nothing whatsoever to do with DAZ or eovia"

Thank you for your condesending tone. I have already mailed them and asked for a refund, and bought Hexagon 2 from DAZ, my first purchase ever with DAZ.

Since when am I not allowed to state publicly that I am not happy with a situation? This thread actually had something to do with Hexagon, in case you didn't see the title of the thread. I have since found the thread on DAZ concerning this, and stated my dis-satisfaction there as well.

The fact that I have to find out on Renderosity that something I pre-ordered is available is not good, and if I had been sent an e-mail telling me of this situation I wouldn't have been here in the first place.

Thanks again for your tone. Much appreciated.

Helgard

of course you can express your opinion here. but you didn't say "damn, i wish i had gotten an email instead of finding out through rendo that there is a new special deal". you said you were out money and you didn't know what was going on. in 3 separate posts, no less. forgive me for thinking that this is not an efficient method to recover lost monies. so you had actually already found a solution, and yet you were still complaining that you were out money? and you call me condescending? i went especially to DAZ and eovia to find out whether there might not be a way you could recoup that loss, and to let you know how. thanks for wasting my time. don't be a prick.

I have never, in the three years I have been here, been called a prick.

My first post was asking for information. My second just stated my dissatisfaction, and my third just explained that the membership and $100 voucher was really not a good deal, because you still pay $168 more than someone who buys it without pre-ordering, and this was still before I had found out that I could get a refund.

I am not the type of guy that fights in forums, and I was just very unhappy with a situation, and stated this fact. I have heard people get far more upset in this forum over a $5 product than I did over what I thought was a $168 loss, yet your post and attitude have really upset me, and I think I should rather bow out of this thread now, while I am still rational and well-behaved, and go and play with Hexagon instead of being insulted by you.

Heh I'd love to try it out, but alas... I can neither afford to join PC just for that, nor do I really want to rejoin.

However, this is the first offer I've seen in almost 2 years that actually makes it worth joining, even if it's just for a month.

I'll think about it. Anyone know how long this offer is on for?

I bought it, but it is nearly impossible to download the file with around 340MB. I have a quite fast connection but it downloaded with 2.5KB, now you know how long it will need until I get the program and also only if it not break always inbetween!!! I'm already now by the thirt download and don't know how far I come this time. Somehow it looks for me like a big con, not a lot people have the connection really to get it. I download normally with a speed of 100KB but now only 2.5KB, I think DAZ should give for $10 the oportunity to burn it on CD!! And the offer is on to the 31th of May!!!!

Your lucky i normally get about 240kb but i'm getting 69bytes at the moment and its bombed out 3 times already........i guess everyone is getting it LOL........Steve

Boys, calm down a little. helgard has close on $300 of aggravation here, and I'm pretty startled by this DAZ pricing. What, I wonder, is the catch? This maybe isn't the place for angst and ranting over what's happened. Still, I don't see any reason to throw around personal insults. And, yeah, big download...

You know folks, just because you BOUGHT it today, doesn't mean it won't be in your account listing for download a month from now when not everyone and their brother are sucking up bandwidth. Just because the sale is over on May 31st doesn't mean you won't be able to download your purchase after that date if you buy it now.

Oh i know your right Mizrael but i WANT it KNOW...stamping feet :o)........Steve

Oh alright. I'll wait to download mine next month then and let you use my bandwidth! :m_handshake:

Thanks :o) :o).......Steve

Um, Mizrael, the "Data Download Expires" is 5/2/2006 (that's five days - nicht eine month!).  I doubt that in even five days, it will be much better.  You wait a month, request relisting for download. :)

You can have my bandwith too Steve, I can wait in the moment I have anyway no chance to download it!!!LOL

If you think it's bad now, just wait an hour or two...most of the U.S. is still asleep, but we're waking up!  Dumb me just had to try and download right now...well I'm at 2% at the moment.  I'll quit trying after it bombs out the first time.

If it's any help, the clickable links can be transferred to a download manager/accelerator. I'm using a combination of Firefox, the Flashgot plugin and Free Download Manager, and I'm getting 40 K/sec. It's slow for broadband, but it's manageable.

edited - Even with an accelerator, it'll need to be a one-shot attempt. Because of site security, I doubt if you'd be able to resume a broken or stopped download.

We'll see.

DAZ doesn't seem to have resume support. I's probably worth waiting a few days. I don't know if the weekend is going to be good or bad. And, yes, I know what it can be like for people on dialup. Some of the current ordinary DAZ downloads are all-night sessions on that. But, even on the slow end of broadband as I am, this is a managable size, once the server overload ends. Good luck, folks.

dashes off to buy Wow..I knew my PC club membership would come in handy :) I'm not sure just what I'll be able to do witrh hexagon..but at $1.99, I'd be a fool not to grab it while the occassion is here :)

As an FYI, Dan Farr said last night (in the ArtZone chatroom) that he tried to get Eovia to withdraw or modify the pre-order deals several weeks ago, so he must have already been planning some deal like this. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, Eovia didn't want to do that.

mac

Too bad.I paid 99$ us in pre-oreder (i cannot download this  pre-order for now) and now at DAZ at 1,99$.I never understand this crazy market.If Daz litterally give Hex2,where they will find the money for developping the product.Dead end for Hexagone?

No, they're not going to kill it. This $1.99 thing might be only temporary, andwhether it's temporary or permanent,  selling it that cheap will build up a large customer base (a lot of people who wouldn't have bought it before are buying it now because it's so cheap). Then they can make a killing on selling plugins, etc.

If there are no plugins available, no biggie, the hexagon programmers now ork for them, so they can just have them come up with some plugins (like to integraste Hexagon with Bryce and daz Studio)..

@ Steveshanks

You can use my bandwidth too :o)

Wow.  This is a great deal.  I tried the demo of Hexagon, and didn't like it enough to shell out for the full program, but for $1.99, I'm in.

FWIW, there are several threads about this in the Carrara forum.  I gather DAZ has offered to refund pre-orders for those who don't think the package they are offering for those who pre-ordered is enough.

As I've said in the Carrara forum... If you're still bitter/angry about having pre-ordered then process a refund, buy it for less at DAZ and be happy (aside from the on-going stampede of customers causing slow DL speeds)! :lol:

Alright, I give up.  I've been downloading it since 4am this morning but only got to about 10%.  I'll just try later.  You all can have my 5kb/sec bandwidth that I've been using.

Is it just me, or are there problems with logging in to DAZ at the moment.

I have put Hexagon in my cart, however it asks me to confirm my login when I click the checkout button. At that point, when I key in my EM address and password I get a message saying that my EMail address/password combination is incorrect. So, I then click the "Forgot Password" button, and then it tells me it can't process this at the moment as DAZ is investigating some security issues.

WTF ?

Quote - So I get a membership for $30, a $100 voucher I will never use, and I will get Hexagon 2, maybe with the Golden Pack that I am supposed to get when I pre-ordered it, all this for only $298.

I hope this works out okay for you.

That's why I don't like preordering stuff. I hate giving somebody else my money without getting something in return right away. It could be worse--Eovia could have declared bankruptcy and you'd have nothing. At least now, you can get the software you were willing to buy for $298 and get a free $100 voucher that can fully pay for any DAZ originals. It still stinks that others can now get it for $2. If you ordered by credit card, you still have some options to get your money back (though I'm not sure if that Euro thing took that option away from you). In the end, you're not getting the best possible deal, but you're getting the product that you purchased.

 I'd consider it myself, if they took cash..;) however, Blender and Wings are still free..;)

No no no Steve I'm NOT giving up my bandwidth to you!  lol  Just bought Maya yet I still want to grab this...would be a fool not to at the price. Helgard you mention you have been here three years? Take a look at how long plenastic has been here...consider the source...and ignore him. I can understand why you're upset and having been bitten a few times myself by software that is cheaper after it's been sold I have a lot of empathy for you and don't blame you for venting about it.

I'm feeling warped back 20 years ago, when I purchased a highspeed modem with incredible 2,400 bit/s, an unbeleavable speed in those days but in the year 2006???

The finishing of my download is expected within the next 33 hours and 8 minutes :(

Hopefully DAZ will fix the slow download problem.  They rent extra servers or some such thing when they need to, so they should be able to deal with the traffic.

So I've got a question, possibly the wrong place, but it's somewhat on topic:

Is Hexagon any good for doing morphs?  I was seriously considering picking up ZBrush to do some morph work - how does Hexagon compare in this regard.  Of particular interest is how it handles symmetric work - does it easily allow mirroring of work?  ZBrush seems to have that covered (although I haven't used it myself, so I could be wrong).  Then in general how "user friendly" is it compared to ZBrush?

I should probably just try out a demo I guess.....

Definitely try the demo.

IME, Hexagon is a lot easier to figure out than XBrush.  But then, IME, differential equations in ancient Sanskrit are easier to figure out than Zbrush.  ;-)  As Elizabyte once said, the ZBrush controls are like the cockpit of an alien spacecraft.  Takes a lot of getting used to.  I found Hexagon fairly intuitive.

But please, try for yourself.  YMMV.  One person's "intuitive" is another's "alien spacecraft."  Especially with 3D software. 

I should have done that, its sensible but at 2.00 i figgered what the heck hook up up!

Thanks for the Bandwidth everyone o) i managed to get up to 3k a second for a while there LOL, but i've given up now i think i might set the alarm for 4am, but don't tell anyone or they'll all do it  :o)........Steve

Yea, Im there with you its gonna be a loooooong time :biggrin:

WOW ... 1,99 can you Buy it more then once ? i mean can you buy it for someone else too ?

I can't buy anything online so i can't become a PC member .. so does anybody know's if buying it for someone else is possible ?

Thnx for checking it out or answering

Chris " who is sad about this kind of stuff happening now...

You can't BAR-CODE sorry, its part of the PC Rules......Steve

Just my luck .....

Now do you wonder why i started to make my own props etc etc ...

I wished i was a millionaire and not so good looking  :}

Chris