Forum: DAZ|Studio


Subject: What are the hidden costs / fees for the "free" version of D|S 4.0?

Gremalkyn opened this issue on Jun 15, 2012 · 27 posts


Gremalkyn posted Fri, 15 June 2012 at 2:17 AM

Quote - Wow, paraniod much, LOL. (JK)

Sufficiently.  I have never been shot, but I would not need to be shot by every caliber of bullet to know I would dislike it the first time.  I have, however, had hidden taxes, fees, and restrictive agreements in other things, so I thought it better to ask than just jump. :)

Quote - I have yet to see anything suspicious in the offer. It works as advertised for me and so far I can't find a hidden agenda other than they are trying to get more people to use genesis so they can sell more products.

A foot in the door with a "free" product is fine, so long as there is not a shove that goes with it.  I am glad to hear you have not been shoved.

Quote - I am a long time poser user with a big V4 runtime, so I was skeptical trying a new figure thinking about the costs associated with it, but to my surprize, I have only had to invest in a few things and with them have been able to use most of my V4 content in DS4 AND with genesis, which really is a versitile figure and very easy to work with and get great results. (what I bought was genX to transfer all my V4 morphs to genesis and the V4/M4 shapes for genesis which make this happen).

I have an older version of P**** but not a whole lot of additional content for it, and I like the idea that part of Genesis is some backwards compatability for things alread in the DAZ catalogue.

Quote - The biggest issue I have with it is the CMS service it has which seems to phone home more than I like, but you can turn it off which is what I did, but you lose some smart content/meta data thingy which I don't use since I have my runtimes already set up like I like.

I do not know what CMS is, so I assume it is an auto-update for service packs.

Quote - Hope thast helps some

Quite a lot, actually. :D