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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.

      [deleted] such a weird reply lol. This is a porn site. But for the record I just paid 3.29 a gallon for gas in a major city where prices were crazy before.

          doublevr "it's not going to happen. Just that." in 2019 you were offering unlimited downloads, then it went down to 50, then 30. If when you made those changes people had said "I worry it will one day go down to 15" I bet you'd have given a similar response.

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            • Post #39
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            RockyMtHigh

            Unless you're pirating porn, porn creation is subject to factors of the market economy.

            Why is gas cheaper today than three months ago? It's not because Americans found new sources of gas, it's because for the first time in history an American government started releasing has from the strategic reserves intended for emergencies, like wars and floods. Biden released some of the gas to the American people, to reduce the overall market price of gas (less spending for you at the pumps, temporarily) and sold some of it off to China for more spending money (yet to a company linked to his son).

            As I say, I am not an American, but these decisions are not smart; they are crazy. All businesses will be hurt, even the business of porn. Simple ECON 101 market analysis...

            https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2022/09/07/the-strategic-petroleum-reserve-is-at-its-lowest-level-since-1984/

                [deleted] SLR had no choice but to do this in order to stay in business.

                bro you dont work for them so you wouldnt know. they havent provided any justification for the change but in any case it has nothing to do with inflation or whatever else you rambled about there. slr is based in europe too... not the usa.

                  LondonGodFather

                  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.

                  Another point to make on file size would be why are some studios (cough cough SLRO) releasing scenes that are 80-120 minutes long. Who in the hell is choking the chicken for two effing hours in VR? I'm guessing nobody and I would go as far to say that the average user time for the SLR app is maybe 20-30 minutes. If bandwidth is really this much of an issue wouldn't it be beneficial to keep the videos to 45-60 minutes long?

                      doublevr
                      Who are you to say what customers "need" or not? You advertised an offer. That's what was paid for. That's what we expect you to deliver.

                      I don't order a pizza and the deliver guy shows up with the box half empty and tells me, "well this is all the pizza someone really needs. Nobody really needs 8 slices. Only 1% or 0.1% of our customers actually eats all 8 slices, so now we're just going to give everyone only 4 slices after they already paid for 8."

                      And if it's only 1% or 0.1% of users that regularly use the full download allotment.. then what exactly is the problem? 0.1% of users that were already limited to 30 every 3 days are putting such a strain on the system?

                      @someoneX made a great point on the higher download limits of competitors.. and here becoming the worst of the bunch. I paid here, because it's supposed to be the best offer of the bunch, as far as content and allowed download limits, not lagging behind everyone else. Also, about exclusive studios.. and we can only assume more and more studios will be added as the market gets bigger and more creators and users transition to VR. I saw the new 'Upcoming' section that shows the coming releases, and many days it seems there are already 5+ worth checking out. With this lower allocation, we can barely maintain, let alone catch up on older videos. 30 every 72hrs, at least some catching up can be done.. with enough room for some old and some new, but it would still take many years to get all the good ones.

                      30 every 72hrs is a fair enough balance.. the balance that was enticing enough to pay for.

                      When should I expect to see my 50% refund in my bank on my lifetime membership?

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                        RockyMtHigh

                        Basic monetary theory is not political. Your response required an explanation. You seemed not to understand the causes of inflation and why all prices must go up, including the price of porn. All I can say is that although I cannot speak for SLR it would take either a blind man or someone incredibly self-deceiving not to see what's going on in the world. Europe has rolling blackouts and they turn the street lights off at certain times of day. In Germany they have returned to a robust industry for firewood. Stupid decisions make stuff cost much more.

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                          RockyMtHigh I’m not gonna engage in a political debate on the website I come to to find out what movies have the best blow job angles lol.

                          Then shut up and pay more. Simple.

                          Not to be rude, but if you have a second credit card you can always use it to create a second account and ignore inflation and all its consequences....

                            doublevr OK and every time you lower it, it can never go higher than the new maximum, so the new data will always be a lower average than the maximum, meaning so even if 0.1% turns into 1% turns into 5%, but it only affects 5% so who cares? So that justifies lowering it further. So yes it is fair to question why we shouldn't believe it will go down to 100 per month, then 50 per month, then 30 per month, etc. Because every single time you lower it, the new data will say you can get away with it again.

                            Frankly, there was never a legitimate argument why lifetime shouldn't have unlimited downloads.

                              doublevr

                              doublevr Policy update affects less than 1% of users. Something we want to get fixed as it creates more harm than it does good.

                              Then why even bother with the hassle of changing it?
                              If it is smaller then 1% of users then the possible savings never ever can outweigh the trouble you put yourself in by changing the contract one sided which is very questionable if it is even legal at all.

                                    doublevr well you now have by far the most restrictive download limit of any vr porn site... using the "fair use" excuse doesnt fly. time to buy more bandwidth or fix your servers instead of imposing tighter limits.

                                      As a long time sub why not limit the new accounts that sub and drop every month from leaching the site and allow long time subs to download more?

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                                      doublevr

                                      I'd avoid that expression "Fair Use" unless you want to give pirates a loophole. "Fair Use" has a very specific and clearly defined meaning in American law. Nelson v Tenenbaum defined file sharing as "not fair use". Fair Use internationally, for copyright purposes, means that the creative product can be shared freely for non-profit purposes. One example of non-profit sharing is torrenting, which certainly isn't what you'd want to encourage (I'd imagine) as typical "fair use".

                                      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#File_sharing

                                          @doublevr

                                          I'm feeling very sad...

                                          It's like buying a car and manufacturer promises certain equipment and horsepower (and range, if it is electric car)...
                                          and when you get the car, you realize that you only get half of the promised features. 🙁

                                          My primary way of watching videos is download and DNLA, because it is not always possible to use a fast internet connection.

                                          You must understand, that Your customers are living all over the world...
                                          There are different kind of infrastructures in internet.
                                          You know, we all are not living middle of the urban cities like Los Angeles. 😉

                                          So, please please please, go back to the way it was.
                                          (Or at least release the restrictions of some clients, like me.)

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                                          Fair Use internationally, for copyright purposes, means that the creative product can be shared freely for non-profit purposes.

                                          No it doesn't.