LordCrash I should really use Heresphere more too as I do have it and it is indeed a lot better. I've just been lazily using the oculus thing and haven't really set it up to start stuff from steam.
For me the reason is not a slow internet connection btw, I have 500mbit and probably next year gigabit connection and I really doubt I will ever switch to streaming VR porn. It's indeed visually a downgrade, comparable to watching a movie on Bluray vs Netflix quality, not to mention annoying stutters and pauses when you skip ahead.
According to their own graphics and "stats" the people who download are by far the minority, so why are we getting more and more limitations? It's absurd, if we are such a minority it shouldn't be an issue at all, just let us have our downloads without obnoxious counters and other annoyances. The only reason to keep pushing against this is SLR/doublevr having a hard-on for streaming-only or that's just their end-goal. Well fuck around and find out I say. It's not going to fly for a lot of people.
It's like Gabe Newell said years ago "Piracy is a service issue", actually here's the full quote:
"If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable."
Although I'm not convinced the download limitations are caused by piracy at all (because 1; it takes a certain level of tech knowledge+access and 2; the people who pirate porn would very likely never pay for porn anyway). But similarly to games, paid-for-porn and especially VR porn is definitely a service issue. If it is more convenient to watch or download from SLR people will use it, but when we get annoying limitations that just keep getting worse and worse at some point people will jump ship.
Personally I'm already at that point of looking into other solutions simply because of doublevr's nonsense stats and endless fight against the apparently minor group of members who download. Not to mention the lies about not adding more limitations and yet here we are, and now he posted it won't go streaming-only but history has shown that's probably what's going to happen.
And I might not always hit the 30 downloads limit but when I do and there's another scene I want to get I'm now essentially forced to put on my pirate hat even though I'm paying for VR porn. I'm not going to wait six fucking days when I can download it right away (at much higher speeds than SLR servers by the way). So yeah, it's a convenience and service issue and SLR is heading in the wrong direction.
