I don't see anything entitled about customers expecting their most valued features and content that were included in the subscription at the time of payment to remain available until the next payment is due.
I get that some things are beyond the control of the team at SLR. Like a studio pulling out.
And I can understand why studios might do that unexpectedly, given the calibre of doublevr's personality
However the bulk of my dissatisfaction has been well within the control of the SLR team.
The download limit is within their control.
Heresphere API is within their control. (Yes, really!)
The compliance purge may have "needed to happen", but SLR giving their paying customers AT LEAST SOME notice that their favorite content was potentially due to disappear forever BEFORE the scene is deleted would have been a gracious and respectful way to handle the situation and allow customers to actually get what they've paid for before it disappears.
That was in their control, totally and unequivocally.
It's actually a bit insulting to frame this as entitlement.
It's very apparent that SLR has aspirations to become streaming only, and seek to lock their customers into their somewhat antiquated and inferior DEOVR app.
It seems bizarre to boast about the technical superiority of your latest camera rig in one sentence and then justify locking customers into using a technically inferior interface which noticeably compromises the visual experience while being less user-friendly in another.
It's also quite apparent that SLR isn't currently capable of making an app which rivals heresphere.
Bottom line, not much can be done about the mistakes made during the compliance purge now, or to bring back the studios which have already fled.
Downloads are quite limited now, especially compared to your less expensive competitors. so it would be ill-advised for SLR to limit them any further.
But the big dealbreaker for me is the loss of the heresphere API. Taking away that functionality from your customers just to enforce usage of your own proprietary app and prevent your content from being viewed on a superior third party app just seems petulant.
Other studios give their API support pro bono with no issue, and don't try to extort the creator of the third party app into sharing their software IP by using their content library and subscribers as leverage. That's so dumb. Really.
The list of studios which heresphere supports grows more and more all the time actually.
The difference is they understand and care that users don't want to be forced to use separate apps for each individual porn site they get their content from.
That's just an incredibly inconvenient way to view porn.
And the fact that the quality difference between one app and the other is so stark just makes it a bit ridiculous.
