Quote - I don't know for sure about needing DIM to download and install. That just sounds way wrong. No one has said other wise, but maybe it's because no one here has bought and installed C8.5.

Ya, DAZ has pretty well blown their credability, so I can't go by anything they say. And probably why nothing has been said about C9. If you can't keep promises, don't make them.

I have purchased 8.5 Pro.  I am able to download the program and content manually, or by using DIM.  Both options are available.  When I go to my product library, there is a Manual download button that I can right click on and do a file save as.

As to the quality of the zip files, I had a failure of my content hard drive and had to redownload most of my purchases from DAZ, Renderosity, and RDNA.  While most files had the correct paths setup, content from all the stores had differences in the directory structures in the zips.  Some files would have the runtime structure, some would have the directories below the runtime, but not include the runtime.  Some would have the vendor name then runtime. 

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