Less than 10% of SLR users download 1 file or more

usignup35

Vrsumo2017 Ok so 2 things
"That’s why I’d really love to see VR sites offer a streaming-only subscription as an option, right alongside their usual stream + download" packages."

Right now, u can download but don't have to, so why limit your options?
Are u meaning for them to offer a stream-only sub at a cheaper price than the $35 or whatever script+stream sub is?

"Or a plan with streaming plus a small download limit — like 5 downloads a month."

NOPE!! Let's not mess with the download limit in any way that further limits it. 10 awesome scenes come to SLR but I can only download 5, no thanks.

"But unlimited downloads? Honestly, that gives me anxiety. It's just not for me."
That is a reasonable experience for u. We have the same download options & at the same price tag, but we value downloading differently, so I get why you'd suggest different sub-options. I'm just trying to say they should add sub options if anything & not change the download limit to anything lesser than it is currently...& not mess with the current pricing as well.

Vrsumo2017

usignup35 Are u meaning for them to offer a stream-only sub at a cheaper price than the $35 or whatever

Basically, yes...if I don't want the downloads + package I can choose stream only for less and it's less stressful for me because I'm not trying to download the whole website just because downloads available.

Lol, I'm probably one of the subjects that downloaded the whole catalog in a month and at that point they thought "download limits" lol 😆

Vrb, was unlimited then it was like 10 a day, sum sites really ment unlimited downloads, I couldn't believe it! Like wth, 9.99 or 14.99 a month unlimited downloads? 🤯 practically giving away futuristic porn for free. Vrhush was 5.99 then, was pretty cheap to have virtual sex with many hotties!

I use to spend that or more on DVDs with like 10 scenes.

usignup35

Also, most Eroscript scripts are with the SLR version of the video in mind, so downloads are a must at a high volume. At least for me that is.

harigeharry

I don't download much anymore. The whole point is pretty much gone now the HBR downloads are gone. And besides that, I feel that the content quality is going down over the last few years, I honestly feel there's almost nothing worth downloading anymore. And it's not just this site, it's probably even worse on the other VR websites. I kinda get the feeling that OF destroyed the porn industry, the real hot models go there and only the "B-models" do 'normal' porn nowadays...

jojo321

harigeharry thats so true how of ruined the porn industry. We used get absolute 10s like for example gabbie carter, lana rhodes, keisha grey, bree olsen, mia malkova...real actual stars. Now 99 percent of the girls are ugly or mid at best and we are lucky when we get an 8.

phiber

SchnuppiLilac I think "only" is the wrong word here, since that would mean about half of the group which downloads things at all actually download a lot, meaning that the removal of downloads (which this post clearly wants to justify) would actually majorly affect a sizable group of subscribers

mixbets78

Congratulations SLR @doublevr you beat the record of lowest bitrate file you provide to your subscribers on the new Hazel Moore video. 14 mb bitrate. Looks like a Japanese video quality.

doefi3

mixbets78 dont understand whats the deal with lowering quality of videos? Removing higher bitrate/frame rate download options was bad enough but now this. i posted numerous times on this forum that "jewelz in your room" (which is about twice the bitrate of this new release) and looked amazing should be the gold standard of video quality moving forward, and since than rather than using that quality or improving, weve been going backwards in quality. SLR should be like what i remember being all about: pushing boundaries and aiming for maximum quality and immersion, how good can we get it... not how bad we can get away with, putting SLR behind other top studios regarding quality.

g2kbuffetboy

mixbets78 Congratulations SLR @doublevr you beat the record of lowest bitrate file you provide to your subscribers on the new Hazel Moore video. 14 mb bitrate. Looks like a Japanese video quality.

Just checked out vid… 6GB for an hour long video. What a regression of SLR. All the money and hard work and improvements their Original crews have made over the years, only to be slapped in the face with such abysmal encoding and image quality of these low bitrates.

It’s like the loyal customers that download are considered the “enemy” here. Why? We literally are part of the SLR customer base. Vocal probably because we are the hardcore users that have helped SLR become what it is today. But yet we are treated like the 10% of users SLR wants to get rid of. Sad.

maxsavage

Very cryptic post, not sure why this is "Good to know" but it feels like a veiled threat. The ol' we need to remove previously provided services because only x% of users utilize them.

However, until further clarification I'll assume to interpret it this way: since only 10% of users download any files, SLR can increase the number of max downloads allowed by 90%.

antjegrigoo

OK, then let's remove downloads. Would be interested in what happens then - only one thing is for sure: I'll be gone!
I do belong to those 10% due to various reasons:

often, I'm on trips where I don't have the option to stream - I take my portable HD with my current most liked videos with me
Bandwidth is an issue, I hate it when the scene buffers in the middle of the action
Downloading gives me the freedom to use the player I want
Only reason for me to stay a loyal long term member is having access to SLR Originals. Since they are only available in crappy bitrates anymore, I already asked myself several times whether it's worth staying loyal.
Take away the download-option, and I know the answer.

doublevr

antjegrigoo removing downloads is not a plan

Silly-Sausage

Just maybe... the intention is to make downloads as bad as streaming... for some reason that i can't ... quite put my finger on.... erm... this may involve a mathematical equation or quantum physics !

... but us conspiracy theorists are just nutters, we're never right about anything... oh wait... lol

As long as we're all having a laugh together 🙂

Edit: Just to add what is the point of asking us for feedback about image quality of downloads etc and then totally ignoring everything we say ?

SchnuppiLilac

Silly-Sausage us conspiracy theorist

The new (preliminary) policy is out there for many weeks. Textbook silent rollout. As the man said: total transparency.

Silly-Sausage

SchnuppiLilac The new (preliminary) policy is out there for many weeks. Textbook silent rollout. As the man said: total transparency.

I thought you had been abducted by SLR Stasi for having an opinion - Good to see you back mate 🙂
...blink once for yes

SchnuppiLilac

Silly-Sausage Thanks, all good! I've silenced myself, just having a little relapse episode.

doublevr

We are rising the bar to 50Mpbs max encodings. Let's see how it goes. Will update how can you track it. If the quality gets better indeed and there are no major setbacks we might re-encode the whole database.

mixbets78

doublevr You are not rising because your encodings were 120mb+. You are lowering to 50 mb.

And thats a good decision.

Having them at 14 mb its just bad decision and not caring about quality that you provide to subscribers to this website.

diskgriffin

Love the justifications. I remember reading a comment that you guys were "discouraged" from making more male pov videos due to unpopularity. Yet, we're flooded with flat videos that struggle to get 10 likes. What is that, less than 1%? Not determinative there right?

The "10%" stat also could only support one conclusion - SLR users desiring an inferior experience. It couldn't be that only 1/10 scenes may be worth downloading (which I don't completely mind bc of the variety of the scenes/models). Completely fine newest SLR videos look like 4K videos from almost a decade ago. Studios like BadoinkVR dunking over SLR was not on my '25 Bingo card.

Good to know.

exzeth

I stopped downloading videos here because it's just not worth it anymore. Look what happened to the latest Hazel Moore video. Terrible quality.

jommy

Less than 10% of SLR users download 1 file or more

All the more reason to not lower download limits and not lower bitrate of downloads..

slrUser

jommy Less than 10% of SLR users download 1 file or more

All the more reason to not lower download limits and not lower bitrate of downloads..

@doublevr Please address this point. I agree with you, only a tiny fraction of your users are going to download 40+gig files, so why worry about it? The cost is negligible.

The pennies you are going to save on bandwidth is NOT worth the damage you're doing to your reputation. Just let the handful of power users download the massive original files. Our hard drives will fill up eventually, and we'll be back to streaming/downloading the smaller (more convenient) versions in no time (assuming you re-encode them properly).

This fight is not worth having. Please SLR, don't die on this hill.

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