Mira 9 Alternate Shapes
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The Alternate Shapes are always included in the pro bundles, Y/N? What does it mean to be gifted to buyers of Mira 9 Pro bumdle?
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No, it looks like they are only included for the first 30 days. After that no more.
I personally don't like Daz's approach here.
With the Genesis 8/8.1 bundles, the anaomical elements were only available in the Pro bundles. But it didn't matter which one you got and you could also buy the other items individually at any time.
For Genesis 9 there were initially no exclusive bundle products. It was just cheaper to buy the bundle. Then alternative shapes were introduced that were only included in the Pro bundles and that you couldn't buy individually. I found it a pity, but you could just wait for a sale.
With the new Mira bundle, the shapes are now only included for a limited period of time and can no longer be obtained after that.
That's really annoying, because the alternative shapes add a bit of variety to all the young models in the store.
from the various posts on the sales page if you buy the Pro Bundle you get the alternative shapes for free as a bonus and is the only way you can get them but they are only availible if you buy the Pro Bundle before September 9 after that you can't get them as they will be removed there's a little video clip at the top of todays sale page promoting her the shapes only showing faces are young adult and elder except for the neck and mouth slightly wider thinner can't see much differance using same texture tried to copy paste image and I got blocked saying I'm trying to do something illegal so can't show you sorry not allowed to post images ohere anymore looks like
Got to be one of the stupidest marketing schemes ever., yeah let's put out something that quite a few people will want and then screw the people who can't buy immediately out of ever getting it. That sort of thing annoyed the hell out of me when disney did it with various movies over the years and it STILL annoys me.
My guess is that this is just very poor presentation. The individual items show which are in the pro bundle: for example, the tattoo parlour is not. But I could be wrong. I can't imagine why anyone thought this way of doing things was good.
If you have checked the sales issues thread, you can see we have inquired. Our understanding is that the licenses are added, which we're guessing means the customer's product library and we've asked for clarification/confirmation.
I remember they tried this gimmick of you need to buy it by this date or it goes in "the vault" with the Sanjay 8 HD add-on, had a lot of pushback and low and behold, the HD add-on showed up in the store like two or three months later. Personally, I see something like this and I just say forget it, I'm not going to reinforce the thought of being pressured to buy something now or risk completely missing out.
Is there a good picture of the alternate shapes? I can't find it.
Yeah, I noticed that. Where are the promos for these alleged alternate shapes? I don't think anyone has ever raved about the products sold sight unseen in a promotion. And they've pulled that stunt more than once.
If you open up the Pro Bundle promo pages, https://www.daz3d.com/mira-9-hd-pro-bundle there is the grid of 20 pictures and the bottom 10 are of the younger and older (cough) versions of Mira 9.
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The problem is that the alternative shapes/ skins arent really that great. They don't really make the character look all that different in the promos. Ugh, Daz, please stop with this non-sense to get alternative shapes. At the very least put them in both bundles or include some skins that actually make it worth getting the older/ younger versions. This sales tactic feels wrong.
And why I wasn't stressed over buying or NOT the Pro bundle. And I didn't buy it. Picked up bits and pieces I liked and would use.
Seriously, the younger version is nice and cute, but Mira 9 is so young, looks younger than my college freshman granddaughter, so her younger should be in elementary school or middle school. The older version is a joke. It is like they accidentally took renders of the main Mira 9 character instead. Older should be at least 40 or 50 or older to be realistic. And the skin should match.
And because Mira 9 HD looks so young to start with, ie below age of consent, the items that were originally in the pro bundle by accident were a shock. Utah must have changed a LOT since I was stationed there, for that gear to be acceptable for a young teen.
I don't even bother when sale promotions like this are touted.
Not that I buy bundles anyway so not the intended customer.
I will often buy a character usually by a PA if it has young and old versions. DAZ original ones rarely represent value for money IMO.
This temporary exclusivity crap is just plain stupid. Just think, Mira will be devalued in the future past the expiration date. No matter how deep the discount gets, she will never be a complete product like the other characters as she will never have the add on.
What a great strategy, let's put all our eggs into one basket for the all important launch period. It really just shows the mentality here. These are not art assets, these are fast food specials.