theHobbit I don't think anybody in their right mind would subscribe individually to multiple independent sites as the financial outlay would be far too much.
In 2d porn though they do and the industry is much healthier for it. People do subscribe to standalone sites like Brazzers or Evilangel or Tushy or Hardx and lots of smaller sites. There are aggregator sites there like Adult time but they’re not like SLR/POVR in that they don’t have everything by the sites they feature, just a select few scenes, usually pretty old ones. You have to subscribe to the actual site to see their whole catalogue and all their new stuff.
You only have to look at how musicians struggle now that people just pay 9.99 a month to Apple Music and have access to pretty much every album they’d ever want rather than have to buy individual albums. They make little or no money on records now and have to tour constantly to stay afloat or need to have second jobs. Great for us perhaps but eventually it will just become not worth it for most bands (except the likes of Taylor Swift/Beyoncé) to make new music or at least put any great time or effort into it.
I personally do subscribe to other sites like Realjam, Porncorn and sometimes SinsVR, even though I don’t need to as they put all their scenes on SLR. I do this as they shoot regular anal content and I want to financially support that so they continue to exist as it is so rare elsewhere. I also occasionally go to DarkroomVR, Virtual Taboo, CzechVR just when they build up a few scenes that I want to watch. I used to subscribe to Fuckpass too before they started on the Canon 8K camera and messed up their content.
I think the issue you bring up with VRPlayful is that they seem to maybe want to push things a bit more hardcore and have indicated that they’re concerned about SLR’s super strict compliance (another troubling issue when one site has so much power, everyone else has to tailor their content to what SLR allow). They were worried they’d have to make cuts to their recent Veronica Leal scene but thankfully managed to get it through. The suggestion was that they’re not sure what they’re allowed to do or they may have gone a bit further with that scene.
People (like me) were just suggesting that, rather than censor themselves, they could send an edited version to SLR which passes compliance and makes the scene financially viable but then find another avenue to release the uncut version and make a bit extra on the side. That could be their own site which, if it was successful, could eventually lead to them being able to go out on their own and stop giving scenes away on SLR.
