Upcoming price and download limit change

Hairsational Main problem comes from users misusing recurring monthly sub instead of going non-recurring monthly.

I can't be the only person who assumed that option was there to trick folks who don't subscribe to sites like this. Most sites like this use a similar tier to catch noobs.

Whatever you do, I wouldn't advise you to increase the price in this economy. Reduce service, if that's necessary, but increasing the price will only lead to fewer users. Currently POVR is offering a very competitive plan of $15.00 per month, with some non-3D sites like ALSScan reduced to $9.99 for Black Friday. Heck, BadoinkVR is at $9.99 per month, and they have a massive library of films.

SchnuppiLilac

Quest 2 was terrible. I could hardly see anything with that device, and it gave me headaches.

Quest 3 is a real headset for non-gaming VR experiences. The software needs work, but it's very usable.

I can see the difference between compressed and original files with Quest 3.

I really hope this isn't my fault for this limit change. I downloaded quite a bit this month, basically all the films I downloaded in previous months at compressed resolution.

SchnuppiLilac starting the rebate on the second month

That was the game of the notorious GirlsDoPorn. I was never a victim of their scam, but they used to require two months of subscription to download 4K content and BTS scenes. In addition, these "elite" users would gain access to the complaint e-mails submitted to them by their models. That decision didn't turn out to be such a smart idea.

[deleted] Depending on the clarity of the 'original' file, I think you could. If for example skin texture looked super sharp in the 'original', sharpness was less pronounced in the compressed file. On the other hand, there are many 'original files' in which skin texture seems already unsharp, so in those videos the difference didn't matter that much. Moreover, some studios already provide original files that are fairly compressed with a bitrate of 50 Mbps. After the SLR treatment and another round of compression, the streaming files will have only 22 Mbps, and for sure this makes a difference.

Talking about skin texture sharpness: Alex Mack isn't getting a lot of love around here, but some of his latest SLRO productions have the most superior image quality among all SLRO, at least for my weary eyes (e.g. the scenes with Aubree Valentine, Danielle Renae, Chloe Amour/Sisi Rose).

SchnuppiLilac

Most companies do that, and regular purchasers of porn know about this. The point is to trick folks new to paying for their porn. My point is that they need to keep the price competitive. I think $19.99 is fair price for what you get at SLR, whether that is for one month or several. Sometimes users download many films in one month, and in other months they download next to nothing. Additionally, folks jump in and out of different accounts, so someone who may look like a new user may actually be an old-timer who just changes their credentials and e-mail every so often.

SchnuppiLilac There is no misuse

I like this part of your response.

SchnuppiLilac to pay out the rebate in the second month

I'd probably stop subscribing to SLR if they did this. I'd recommend a price of $19.00, ignoring this one-month only / subscription tier, just with a reduced download limit of half of the regular content and more downloads of SLR Originals productions. That would make the most sense, since SLR doesn't have to pay royalties on their own productions and bandwidth costs would be under the subscription fee. I'd also recommend that they enhance the reliability of their servers, since more than 50% of downloads are corrupted and need to be re-downloaded. Their competition, POVR, is more reliable in this respect, and they can offer unlimited downloads since they know how to limit users to one download at a time.

SchnuppiLilac

I use a download manager. Unfortunately Internet Download Manager (IDM) requires a separate subscription, and it's the only download manager that is effective with SLR-converted content. With IDM there are fragmentation artifacts every two to three minutes, instead of large portions of missing content (Free Download Manager) or frozen downloads that cannot be restarted (Xtreme download manager).

IDM allows users to download multiple files at once and potentially download the maximum from SLR without much hassle. POVR has a system that doesn't disconnect users based on time (you see the time-based, IP cookies SLR adds to their download links), rather they monitor users based on connection attempts and intensity (users cannot download multiple files at obce, so they can offer unlimited downloads).

@doublevr

You may want to reduce the download limit, but what you really need is a reduction in speed for heavy downloaders. With a slow connection of 2 MPS it woud be difficult for anyone to reach the SLR download limit. Many users have connection speeds of 20 MPS. One solution might be to limit download speeds after a certain number of downloads have been reached. If the user can afford to have a 20 MPS connection, they can pay extra for additional downloads.