gohanf22 posted at 7:44 AM Sun, 20 October 2024 - #4490566

DarkElegance posted at 7:08 PM Sat, 19 October 2024 - #4490540

gohanf22 posted at 8:46 AM Sat, 19 October 2024 - #4490520

Reason why they are going this route is the SANE DAZ users are sick of the direction they are going with DAZ so guess what they resort to, to getting their DAZ assets:  PIRATES LIFE!  This is why they are doing it cause people are sick and tired forking out money to companies that don't give two Fs about their customers.  Pirating is becoming a norm and as long as these companies keep catering to the Weird ones, our wallets will remain closed.  I hear some vendors are already leaving Daz and going to places like Renderhub to start selling in hoping to gain any sort of income.  Get woke, go broke, and you can't change my mind Gen 9 was not woke.  Gen was a disaster and gen 2, 3 and 8 were great.  Why go back to the very thing that was a disaster? Answer: to cater to the weirdos.  Screw daz.

Saddly...that is it.
If customers keep feeling unheard, that they are not valued, they will stop spending money. Note, I am not saying they will stop the "hobby". They will seek other venues to get their items. And in the bigger scheme of it, it will tbe the artists working to make those products that will suffer.

I do know of artists that have either left daz for places like renderhub or started their own store. Which I am happy to support. It means more of my money is going directly to the artists.

Yep.  Clearly DAZ needs their own BUDLIGHT treatment....

EDIT:  And yeah I do the same with Renderhub as well.  Anyone that I know are good PAs and Vendors that will move to Renderhub or Already ON Renderhub, I will support.  Renderhub gives 100% of the revenue, unlike DAZ.

I stopped spending a while ago and nothing recently has encouraged me to start again.

The moderators are biased and use a variety of excuses to remove posts. They cannot in any way face any critism even when proof of their bias is pointed out. 

They'll delete a lost just because they don't agree, doesn't have to be offensive or against TOS. 

gohanf22 posted at 6:54 AM Mon, 21 October 2024 - #4490605

Don't have to get the plugins from DAZ as everyone sane knows this.  PIRATES LIFE!!

Renderosity maintains a zero-tolerance policy on pirated software, so don't bring that stuff here.

darken666 posted at 4:18 PM Sun, 20 October 2024 - #4490587

And yet I've gotten more “We’ve removed your post because it referenced or quoted a deleted post" emails than any time since the DRM mess.

I've seen whole threads removed and only the most neutral or favorable posts moved over to the only permitted thread. 

I'm done playing the "disproving the sheer contradiction game", been there too many times in the official forums.

Corporate america understands one language, and that's where I go tight lipped now.

Katsuyaki posted at 2:30 AM Mon, 21 October 2024 - #4490595

RHaseltine posted at 5:30 PM Sun, 13 October 2024 - #4490294

Yes, it doesn't need an always-on connection but it does require you to periodically log-in to use the plug-ins and the exclusive content (other content, including the free bundles, don't require that)

Not happening. No one accesses that machine but myself. DAZ is out of their minds if they think I would agree to that, let alone PAY for it.

Don't have to get the plugins from DAZ as everyone sane knows this.  PIRATES LIFE!!

I do hope Daz makes changes for the better because if not they will not likely be celebrating another 25 years of being in business.

gohanf22 posted at 8:46 AM Sat, 19 October 2024 - #4490520

Reason why they are going this route is the SANE DAZ users are sick of the direction they are going with DAZ so guess what they resort to, to getting their DAZ assets:  PIRATES LIFE!  This is why they are doing it cause people are sick and tired forking out money to companies that don't give two Fs about their customers.  Pirating is becoming a norm and as long as these companies keep catering to the Weird ones, our wallets will remain closed.  I hear some vendors are already leaving Daz and going to places like Renderhub to start selling in hoping to gain any sort of income.  Get woke, go broke, and you can't change my mind Gen 9 was not woke.  Gen was a disaster and gen 2, 3 and 8 were great.  Why go back to the very thing that was a disaster? Answer: to cater to the weirdos.  Screw daz.

Saddly...that is it.
If customers keep feeling unheard, that they are not valued, they will stop spending money. Note, I am not saying they will stop the "hobby". They will seek other venues to get their items. And in the bigger scheme of it, it will tbe the artists working to make those products that will suffer.

I do know of artists that have either left daz for places like renderhub or started their own store. Which I am happy to support. It means more of my money is going directly to the artists.

Once the dark side is seen, it cannot be unseen.

Reason why they are going this route is the SANE DAZ users are sick of the direction they are going with DAZ so guess what they resort to, to getting their DAZ assets:  PIRATES LIFE!  This is why they are doing it cause people are sick and tired forking out money to companies that don't give two Fs about their customers.  Pirating is becoming a norm and as long as these companies keep catering to the Weird ones, our wallets will remain closed.  I hear some vendors are already leaving Daz and going to places like Renderhub to start selling in hoping to gain any sort of income.  Get woke, go broke, and you can't change my mind Gen 9 was not woke.  Gen was a disaster and gen 2, 3 and 8 were great.  Why go back to the very thing that was a disaster? Answer: to cater to the weirdos.  Screw daz.

Thing is I am not the only one not a fan of what they did though dude.  Many people are still only using g3 and g8 and not even trying g9 at all.  Just reusing g9 clothing, poses, etc on g8 models.  Geografts have bene atrocious to use, like for one Breastacular can't even use well on g9.  Meipe already said that with it being a UNIMESH, you can only use breastacular's morphs only.  If you use other morphs, it screws it all up and makes it deformed.  Oh well, guess I will just keep using g8 and wait till g10 and heres hoping they return to normal and separate the female and male meshes...

What is really irritating me is that they are pushing for people to buy these new Models that come out for gen 9 that are for certain IPs, like how is DAZ getting away with selling those?

mouser posted at 7:57 PM Wed, 22 May 2024 - #4485165

I have found myself back here at the Renderosity forums as Daz3d forums are taking weeks to clear my replies on their forums.

Or they are simply deleting them altogether, they don't seem to be as tolerant of critic these days.

So I am not alone? Their moderators are not there to keep things peaceful, they are there to protect the brand and make it look like there are zero issues with their products.

DAZ is desperate at this point to try to make ANY MONEY they can from this DEBACLE of a Genesis model that pushed more "the message" than actually having both meshes stay separate as they should've stayed.  Like you can't even use geografts well at all on gen 9. It is the most SCREWED UP model to date, and not only that, they are selling stuff from IPs in hoping they can get gullible people to buy them to make any sort of revenue.

I'm just waiting for the announcement at this point of Gen 10 and the Female and Male meshes going back to being separate and this gen being forgotten like the Dodo...

And a post I did in an OLDER thread was deleted and again was asking when Gen 9 to Gen 8 Morph Conversion Tool was coming.  Yeah they literally succumbed to the damn ESG/DEI bs...

DAZ Moderators are now even closing threads now.  I posted a thread about when Gen 9 to Gen 8 Conversion tool is coming cause I WILL NOT support Degeneracy ever.  That model is a clear pandering tactic.  I can't wait till i really start learning Blender/Lightwave/Zbrush cause I will leave DAZ and let it just sink...

Tired of this bs...