slr: "users are downloading 30 vids in 72 hours!!! they cant even watch it all!!!!"
reality: users clicking download link because slr wont let them use a player of their own choice, skipping through a vid for a few mins to see whether its worth watching or downloading and moving on to the next vid... each time counted as a download
SLR obviously wants to squeeze out downloaders like myself and is trying to force people to stream/rent the content. I don't d/l five scenes per day anyway but it sure seems like they are doing all they can to discourage against any downloading, i.e annoying popup reminder to use the app for streaming, reducing D/L limits etc. Not everyone has a connection that is fast enough to stream 7K and 8K videos so to enjoy them we must download. I've had an annual sub here for a few years and it's done in 6 weeks, not sure if I'll renew or not now. What's to stop SLR from reducing the download limit even more to 1 or 2 vids per day in a few months time?
Really sorry about the change.
We are doing our best to make sure you get the best service out ther
erniescar69 What's to stop SLR from reducing the download limit even more to 1 or 2 vids per day in a few months time?
It's not going to happen. Just that.
150 videos a month is a very reasonable ratio. Not even 0.1% of users ever needs more than that.
doublevr It's by far the lowest in the industry and you only get 150 videos if you use every download window to the max. With many studios exclusive on SLR we are getting to a point where it gets hard to download even those exclusives without a lot of micro management.
Second lowest should be VRBangers with 10 downloads per day (if they haven't changed that in the recent years) and then VRPorn with 20 downloads per day. POVR/WankzVR has about 15 dowloads full speed and 2MB/s after that. Maybe more bandwidth reduction at 30-50 videos per day.
BadoinkVR, 18VR, VR Cosplay X and KinkVR don't have a limit, but download links get invalid after a few hours, so you can't use download managers that easily.
Virtual Taboo, DarkRoom and VirtualRealPorn don't have limits.
It's not only about the total amount per year, but also about convenience. You've noticed that problem as well, that's why you did 30 per 144 hours instead of 5 per day. But even that will be annoying if we want to download more in vacation weeks or if we discover a new studio and want to catch up on past releases.
Jingler enough people that the company keeps growing 
someoneX respectfully, what % of those 150 videos you download a month do you watch more than once? I’m just curious. That’s a lot of porn lol.
150 videos per month is enough for me, even though it's the biggest download limit of all sites i have been subscribed, but it's a worrying trend, because this is not a first time SLR have reduced it, what's stopping them to do it again in few months or a year.
RockyMtHigh As explained above, it's not about the total amount, it's about the convenience to download videos whenever you want and not following a predefined schedule. When I'm on vacation, I don't want to be limited to 30 videos per week (6 days).
In terms of quantities, it's the tendency that's problematic - the number of allowed downloads is gradually decreasing. This is not the first reduction and you can also see that the business interest is clearly going in the direction of mainstream streaming customers.
someoneX okay but I was more just genuinely curious, how many videos do you download and never watch?
RockyMtHigh I download everything from my favorite studios, because the connection to the servers is not always reliable for the the highest quality at my location.
In general I watch every video I've downloaded, but skip a lot of them after a few minutes, because I don't like them. Problem is, that you don't know that from trailers or thumbnails - some of my all time favorite scenes have models I would consider as average or even below average and would have skipped them by just looking at the thumbnail or trailer.
Direction, acting and technical aspects are too important to judge the quality of a scene without watching it. Common problem is that girls look for direction behind the camera or need so much direction that you have cuts every minute - this results in a bad video, even if the girl has a hot body. They also use a lot of Photoshop for the thumbnails, so often girls look very different in the real scene. In other cases scaling is wrong - not just the size of the girl (that aspect got better in recent years) but of the entire room.
The change from 10 downloads a day to 5 downloads a day was inevitable and necessary. What was not inevitable and necessary and why SLR requires a better business manager:
[deleted] Why inevitable and necessary though? According to one of the SLR mods above it will only impact 1% of users so what does it achieve? Even 10 videos a day was lame and significantly smaller than e.g. POVR or Naughty America.
Frankly this whole thing is totally dishonest, I joined less than a week ago at 10 vids per day and would never have bothered at 5 vids a day given the price. Thank you for your earlier post about how Epoch and Credit Card companies deal with this sort of thing. I think I'll be contacting Epoch.
If SLR is having problems with bandwidth here are ways to rectify the issue
doublevr I'm not sure failing to honour your contract with subscribers is compatible with "make sure you get the best service out there"
They will give you a refund if you include a screenshot of the advertisement and point to the policy change. The refund will be for the remaining days, figured mathematically. You may have to complain multiple times.
Same thing happened to me with BackroomCastingCouch - ExploitedCollegeGirls. They changed their policy by not allowing downloads at all and killing (temporarily) the three sites of their network. I later discovered that they did so because, notoriously, for a period of ten years they accidentally were including the full real names of their models in the EXIF / metadata of the videos; the guys at PornWikiLeaks posted the stuff all over the darkweb! Anyway, much as the immediate change to streaming was necessary and justifiable they still broke the contract and all users were eligible for refunds; they lost a large, very large number of regular subscribers. I had just opted to try it for a month because I thought Amber Moore was hot.
[deleted] this is a good shout on file size - I got confused at first by the option to choose h.264 and h.265 so at first downloaded the one with the larger file size assuming it meant better quality, they should just get rid of the h.264 option if they are having bandwidth issues.
LondonGodFather inevitable and necessary
Of course "inevitable and necessary"...
SLR is based in America and last I checked -- I'm not American -- the American political machine has gone full meltdown...
There is inflation at record highs, gas costs are through the roof, the current gov't lost 85 billion in weapons in the last year alone in Afghanistan, and has already spent 65 billion stoking war against Russia and rejecting a viable peace deal ... the President is LITERALLY talking with dead people and making such gaffs as telling the world he has cancer ... For the poor Americans, the POOR Americans are going to get a lot poorer, and probably more violent (did I mention record crime stats?).
SLR had no choice but to do this in order to stay in business. It was predictable as of a month ago.
They just should have acknowledged the necessity, apologized, and kept the changes minimal (no additional changes to the download period, etc).
EDIT: I'll add a prediction. After November SLR will need to make more changes, although they don't realize this yet. For the past six months gas costs have been kept artificially low for their mid-terms. The Pres has been lowering costs by draining the National Reserve. When that Reserve runs dry, or when it's not politically expedient to keep drawing from it, prices will really sky rocket. Inflation may hit 20 to 30%. Stuff in America is delivered by trucks. When truckers have to pay $1,500 for diesel prices will universally increase.
