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  • Reality Lovers Leaving SLR on 01/01/24

Curieux everything is about money, no one is doing this stuff for free. SLR is a means to an end for these studios, a way to get eyes on their content and make some money off it in order to stay afloat. SLR aren’t providing a free service either though and undoubtedly take their cut, as they should.

At some point a studio will have a decision to make on whether they can make more money in the long run by cutting out the middle man (SLR) and selling their content direct to the consumer exclusively via their own site.

Like a few others have mentioned though, RL haven’t been releasing a lot of videos at all of late and their best ones, in my opinion, are from a long time ago. I wouldn’t think they were in a prime position to break out on their own right now. It’s a strange one.

      petermc it's also true that the market can't catch up with current production speeds

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        justsomedude101 RealJamVR

        RealJamVR is a good studio. However, I am very disappointed with their Christmas offering. Here they have an amazing catalog and will release a remix on Christmas, instead of adjusting the release of one of their other films. The company should be more festive.

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          doublevr end of the world is coming. get yourself ready

          Not the end of the world, just the end of the American dollar as a global currency. Oh yeah, and about 7.6 billion people. For the remaining 500 million, all will be good!

              petermc cutting out the middle man (SLR) and selling their content direct to the consumer exclusively via their own site.

              VRFanService has left SLR and went to VRPorn. Swallowbay has left SLR but not VRPorn or POVR. Too early to tell what will happen with Reality Lovers in January but my guess is that they won't go exclusive either.

              Why on earth would a studio leave SLR as a source of income while at the same time staying on other aggregators? Seems to make no sense. Unless someone is offering you a sweeter deal...

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                  SchnuppiLilac went to VRPorn

                  The only formidable loss here is VRFanService. However, his/her films were hit-or-miss, and their best film remains on SLR, despite the tragic loss of the Coco Lovelock-Succubi classic, which thankfully I downloaded in full resolution before its removal!

                    meh, think i honestly only kept about 5 of there scenes on here, and as many have said, they were all from about 6 years ago, they wont be a loss but i do wish them the best, hope they have a reboot and give us some great content going forwards, fingers crossed

                    SchnuppiLilac the fuckers are probably luring them into anti-SLR deals. I will let them burn all the money they can. It’s not going to help them any way.

                    We better invest the money into more of in-house production.

                        SchnuppiLilac could it be that the other sites have them under contract and they need to wait for the contract to run down? I don’t know how it works.

                        Maybe the other aggregators are nowhere near the same level as SLR so they’re not as bothered about leaving stuff on there? Like you say, it’s strange to remove yourself from one site (the biggest by far as I understand it) and stay on others.

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                          doublevr We better invest the money into more of in-house production.

                          The in-house production at SLR has also been hit-or-miss. You are spending a fortune to shoot separate, censored films for the Japanese market (instead of just censoring classic SLR films and re-releasing them there); as well, you have budgeted for a Trans SLR Originals before doing a gay SLR Originals (as if the Trans market is bigger than the gay market).

                              well, I am a simple user and I do not have the same point of view as slr (whom I respect); I just want to say: that I had a good time with reality lovers and I thank them for it (as they probably thank me for the money that came from my wallet lol: it's a contract! ); and I hope that they will subsequently do good things at slr or elsewhere (in any case I am also a lifetime subscriber to vrporn: don't put all your eggs in one basket lol)

                              [deleted] Maybe i'm wrong, but almost all the SLR release for Japanese market are censored version of original one. The exception are 3/4 done by the SLR Original JAV label, which no longer exists.

                                  Will the scripts still be available for removed videos?

                                  Can't say they were my favorite studio, but going back and reviewing their videos -- wow, they have been on SLR for a long time. Which reminds me of how long I've been using this site. Which reminds me that I'm getting old.

                                  Sorry to see them go.

                                  Avakian Maybe i'm wrong, but almost all the SLR release for Japanese market are censored version of original one. The exception are 3/4 done by the SLR Original JAV label, which no longer exists.

                                  Nope, pretty much correct 👍️

                                    There are 2 good Reality Lovers scenes, out of 298. Obviously it's not good to see any studio leaving, but I'm not too upset about this departure, personally.

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                                    Wonder if they're pulling their content from other aggregate sites as well. Just looked on RealityLovers main site and they're subscription prices are ridiculous. It's $20 per month for streaming only, and $40 per month if you want to be able to download the videos. Who would pay that for a site that has an update once every week or two? I like their non-pov vids because they do it a lot better than most, but with the infrequency of updates and with the videos they have, there is so much other content out there that can watch without having to dish out an extra $40 per month to get maybe two updates during that span, and have to hope I actually like the one or two scenes they put out per month to feel like I'm getting anywhere close to my money's worth. I can't imagine this being a sustainable business model for a company that doesn't produce a lot of content, especially in a still niche market like VR.