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Throwback Thursday; Have a look back at March Madness 2006...

WandWWandW Posts: 2,845
edited March 2022 in The Commons

Via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine... smiley

http://web.archive.org/web/20060404113442/http://www.daz3d.com/index.php

 

PS; $1 in 2006 is equivalent to $1.41 today...

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  • tsroemitsroemi Posts: 2,871

    Oh wow, amazing! 

  • marblemarble Posts: 7,500

    Ah 2006 - not very long after I started my foray into the world of creating pictures using DAZ Studio. I still have some of those items in my content library. What's amazing is how I thought those figures and clothes, etc., were at the pinnacle of CGI realism back then. Although I should say that I found DAZ after spending a while playing The Sims and downloading content from sites like ModTheSims. I looked for a way to create my own characters and DAZ Studio was mentioned on their forums. DAZ figures were indeed very realistic compared to The Sims circa 2006.

    But then my interest in The Sims was dropped in favour of just making my own stories using the content I could get for DAZ Studio. Exactly what I am still doing today. Unlike The Sims, however, my stories were (and mostly still are) a series of still images while The Sims was game play with a small library of animated motions. I would have thought that the animation capabilities and options in DAZ Studio, 16 years on, would have progressed further than they have. Ah well.

     

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,212

    ...thank you for that look into the past. So much less "gimmicky" than today.  Excellent discounts with no games, to foolishness, 

    I have a number of those old products, many of which have bee sent to the vault.

  • BrotherHadesBrotherHades Posts: 89

    kyoto kid said:

    ...thank you for that look into the past. So much less "gimmicky" than today.  Excellent discounts with no games, to foolishness, 

    I have a number of those old products, many of which have bee sent to the vault.

    I'm not sure it was less "gimmicky" as that would have been back when they had the sliding intro discount on March Madness items, so if you were lucky to hit the store at the same time they released items you were getting the best deal, usually right around a dollar, but as time passed the price steadily increased until it hit the regular 30% intro discount, which to my mind seems "gimmicky" it is just a different gimmick than the current buy X amount of Newly Mad or Still Mad items to get deals on stuff from a specified category. But then again back then there wasn't the constant sale after sale like now. March Madness, Platinum Club Anniversary, and the PA Sale were big deals because the big sales were only once a year, and you had months between them, to wait for the next big sale (Other than the PA sale and PC anniversary which always seemed to happen right there together.)  

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,212

    BrotherHades said:

    kyoto kid said:

    ...thank you for that look into the past. So much less "gimmicky" than today.  Excellent discounts with no games, to foolishness, 

    I have a number of those old products, many of which have bee sent to the vault.

    I'm not sure it was less "gimmicky" as that would have been back when they had the sliding intro discount on March Madness items, so if you were lucky to hit the store at the same time they released items you were getting the best deal, usually right around a dollar, but as time passed the price steadily increased until it hit the regular 30% intro discount, which to my mind seems "gimmicky" it is just a different gimmick than the current buy X amount of Newly Mad or Still Mad items to get deals on stuff from a specified category. But then again back then there wasn't the constant sale after sale like now. March Madness, Platinum Club Anniversary, and the PA Sale were big deals because the big sales were only once a year, and you had months between them, to wait for the next big sale (Other than the PA sale and PC anniversary which always seemed to happen right there together.)  

    ...yeah I remember those days. Also remember being able to get a flat 50% discount without having to buy one or more items that cost mor than the discount savings I'd get.  Occasionally there were also special "one shot" sales like the Stimulus one back in '09 when everyone got a stimulus cheque. There is also the "Holiday Sale" in December which followed the PC one but that was about it. 

    Agreed that everything seems so watered down today with what has become the "sale of the month" routine.  Though now for myself the PC+...err....now Daz+ sales have become the only ones I really look forward to anymore because of the PC for a Day sales and the fact I can use a PC item to unlock discounts and special deals (at least I hope we can still o that)...

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