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  • VRBangers got rid of the download button

I think this idea would make everyone happy when it comes to downloading.

I’ve been advocating for this for years: "vr porn" sites need to offer a streaming-only subscription as an alternative, and at a lower price. Speaking for myself, I tend to go real trigger happy with the downloads. It’s a hassle, time-consuming, and almost addictive. I bought two hard drives terabytes of space too and filled them up quickly. It’s incredibly frustrating trying to make room for new content too.

Having downloads available is problematic for me. I would prefer a streaming-only option at a lower price. Additionally, there should be an option to purchase individual videos for a small fee, like $2.99 or even less. I would subscribe to a streaming-only plan, but if I ever wanted to download a video, I could buy it separately.

All of this should be offered as an alternative to the current subscription plans, allowing consumers to choose. For example, a streaming-only subscription could be priced at $9.99 with the option to buy single videos for $1.99, (lol i went lower 🤣...0.99!) while a full premium subscription with downloads could remain at $24.99.

I’m sure there are many consumers who would opt for a streaming-only subscription.

But I feel for yall if they take the downloads. That's gonna suck, especially if you don't have high speed internet for streaming, ugh 😑 🤢

But downloading was a real problem for me, many times as I downloaded like a maniac I thought fuck I wish these vr sites had a streaming only as an alternative, I wouldn't be trying to download all I can. It was bad bro. 🤦‍♂️

By now I'd probably have already bought maybe 2 more tb drives and filled em up.

I get we need downloads tho incase the net goes out, traveling, lock downs, take overs lol, need some files on deck for hard times.

But I'd like to see them add streaming only as an alternative to the streaming with downloads.

In the end it's the internet, it's changing 🤦‍♂️

🥂👍 good luck vr fam ✊️

Not sure if someone mentioned this but you can still get downloads through playa
Default folder is User\AppData\LocalLow.PlayaContent\VOD

Which is why it makes even less sense..
There is also somebody who made a browser extension which returns the download button on the site, lol.

Silly-Sausage VRBangers has been crap ever since they left SLR

They had some incredible scenes in the run up to leaving, and then immediately after they went down the shitter. I wonder if they changed management, or sold the site to someone else

      sylvan

      Can you please make one that allows me to download JAV videos from SLR? :-)

          catflap IMO they had their camera nailed about 6 months ago with some of the best image quality out there, but slowly over the last few months the 'giant girl syndrome' started to come back with some of the releases. Also they had released some bonus VR Conk scenes plus re-masters whick looked pretty good and made up a little for the 1 release per week.

          At this point things were looking pretty good for me, what could possibly go wrong ?

          Unfortununately some naive idiot at VR Bangers pressed the big red button with 'Self Destruct' written on it.

          ... and here we are in a position with Lifetime Subscribers having to use pirate sites to download scenes they have paid for and many users with certain headsets unable to install or use their app.

          I don't think it was very wise of some users to post on the VRB forums that they had a mini hack for downloads as they now know what to patch - Bit daft, keep hacks off VRB forums !

          It's all a bit Bizarre and even though the forums are a bit quieter now, it will kick off again of Friday when we can't download the latest scene... and so on... They seem to think it will go away 🙂

              Silly-Sausage I don't think it was very wise of some users to post on the VRB forums that they had a mini hack for downloads as they now know what to patch - Bit daft, keep hacks off VRB forums !

              It doesn't really matter because if they try to put a stop to that one there will be a new one. It's a cat and mouse game they can't win.

                  Hairsational It doesn't really matter

                  It matters in the sense that they shouldn't do it there for their own good as long as they still have active subscriptions under the account they use in the forum, as they risk their access being terminated.

                    Hairsational Fake "best VR porn site" reviews are the only thing that has kept them afloat

                    There is reason to believe that for at least a year now, the majority of their scene comments have been fabricated.

                        Hairsational
                        Circumstantial evidence, I guess. There seem to be dozens of users, posting very brief positive comments on random scenes in the same style. What makes it look fishy is that for all these users the forum profiles state that they have joined on the exact same date in 2023. While there seems to have been some user migration about a year earlier that also makes it look like many people joined on the same date, there was no such thing on that date in 2023. Once you discover more and more of the same kind of comments by these users, it seems pretty obvious what's going on. Moreover, some of these comments have started to appear in duplicates lately, suggesting there is some (glitched) automated process involved.

                          Posted a long post on VRB forums today highlighting the May 25, 2023 shill accounts:
                          https://forum.vrbangers.com/d/2382-this-is-how-vrbangers-really-feels-about-their-paying-customers

                          A few screenshots down below...

                          https://imgchest.com/p/lqyepazmq7d


                          It's sad enough that VRB has to have dozens of fake accounts to give positive feedback to their scenes. Shows their insecurity and desperation. But it's far worse to use these shill accounts to insult their paying customers.

                            They said videos can be downloaded from the free app play'a Is this right? So just download the play'a the problem is solved. Have to say the piracy is so severe nowadays

                              sheldoncooper Guess you are not following along here.

                              Play'a is not compatible or offered on all VR devices.
                              For many users VRBangers will not load in play'a.
                              Play'a downloads are very slow.
                              For many users downloads in play'a never finish, and there is no resume function.

                              Also you say "piracy is so severe nowadays", lol ok, sure. How exactly is the play'a app addressing piracy?

                              Removing functionality from your paying customers actually promotes piracy.

                                  maxsavage Removing functionality from your paying customers actually promotes piracy.

                                  I think my suggestion works for everyone

                                  They need a "streaming only" subscription for cheaper as an alternative to the "streaming + downloads" subscription, let the consumer decide if they want thousands of tb or more of vr videos stored on their PC, phones or multiple hard drives.

                                  And then some of you download for reasons, traveling, slow net, or you have a particular vr player u like.

                                  There's two consumers here, the i want to download and the I'm fine with streaming only consumer, right now there's only one option, has been like that for years.

                                  I've suggested this many times over the years, really made no sense to me they didn't have it as alternative, like wth no streaming only subscription for cheap? I'll take that, my deo app streams great like I'm watching my local files, hardly ever any load time, unless my net slow, but majority of the time it's stream great. I have fast net so maybe that's why streaming works well for me, but if streaming weren't so great then it be different story, I'd have to download.

                                  But yeah I think these vr sites need to add streaming only subscriptions. As alternative, let the consumer decide if they need the downloads. I'm sure plenty would opt in on that steaming only sub. Might even get new consumers.

                                  Downloads don't work for me bro, give me a download option I'll download the whole site lol 🤦‍♂️

                                  I try to stay away from downloads.
                                  I have shit load of files on my PC I rarely ever watch, I was actually thinking about deleting them all, but I'd have to do it right after a pop so I'll feel bad later, if I ever decided to get rid of them.

                                  Really can't remember last time I went threw my PC vr files.

                                  Idk, battel of the streams i guess 🤷‍♂️

                                      Vrsumo2017 I've suggested this many times over the years, really made no sense to me they didn't have it as alternative, like wth no streaming only subscription for cheap? I'll take that,

                                      Your logic is flawed. They will not offer a streaming only subscription for cheaper. They will charge the same price for it and add a premium price on downloads. A company is not going to choose to make less money than their current setup. Regardless, they sold lifetime memberships that included downloads, so they need to honor that.

                                          g2kbuffetboy hardly surprising, given how they somehow took over the oculusnsfw sub with that bullshit thread listing VRporn as everyone's favorite website, based on a poll which didn't even include them. The poll was open for like 3 days or something, initially excluded SLR until enough people complained, and I'm guessing allowed multiple votes from the same ip address (this is an option you can enable with strawpolls but there's no way AFAIK you can see how the poll was set up).
                                          The sticky thread is still the first thing you see on that subreddit and is ridiculously biased. 2 years later I'm still mad about how blatantly the mod skewed the results, even putting vrporn in the #1 spot a year after the poll ended. Just threw it in there like we're all fucking idiots.

                                              BML5768 agreed, but that's why they should of had streaming only available as a alternative since the beginning. Now they got to kind of go backwards and fix it up and start adding streaming only.

                                              Logic or not, streaming only is available on alot streaming apps, it's going to happen.

                                              And a logic alternative would be add streaming only as an alternative for consumers like me who can get pretty trigger happy with the downloads. 🤷‍♂️

                                                  Silly-Sausage bro because I have a porn addiction, vr porn! you give me a download I will happily download the whole site, lol I have, but im speaking from my experience, for me having downloads is not good, it's time consuming, and I feel I need to down all i can, it became a problem for me, I had to buy more tb drives that got filled up real quick, and then when u have no more space you there trying to delete files you think u don't want, I got rid of lots of old navr scenes I thought I didn't want just to make space, now I wish I hadn't but they're there on the site for viewing but they have no streaming only available. So I just check out there trailers, and honestly really not missing much at navr

                                                  But no bro I'm no bot, I'm just speaking from my own experience. 👍

                                                  I bet there's a lot of consumers out there that don't subscribe just for the fact they don't want a download available for them, they'll go crazy! So instead they watch trailers, free vr vids or them short vr trailers that like 10minutes long.

                                                  Idk, I'm just saying I been suggesting this for years, totally made no since to me they never had streaming only subscription as another option even tho it was crap streaming on oculus browser back then and crap on some vr apps they should of been offering it, but today's different, streaming vr porn works a whole lot better, for me it does, I wanna see it happen.

                                                  One day I can see it being more like a Netflix or a Amazon prime, and you'll subscribe, right, but also there will be other channels you can purchase to unlock. Like top sites who are stinngy with there content lol, imo we need all vr sites in one location, full of content, free content, paid content, you'll never miss out on what's new. It's all there. But some sites you going have to pay to unlock some channels.

                                                  But yeah, crazy shit going on, times are changing, the internet is changing.

                                                  🥂👍

                                                    Silly-Sausage Why would anybody on here as a user suggest a reason to remove downloads ?

                                                    I'm not suggesting that, never have never will, I been suggesting for years.
                                                    I said streaming only subscription as an alternative to what they have now.

                                                    Let the consumer choose if they want the downloads or the streaming only sub, is what I'm suggesting.

                                                    We need downloads, I might not always have good streaming capabilities, I know plenty of consumers travel so they definitely need the downloads.

                                                    But if only meta would offer some kinda internet severice on there headsets, internet on the GO, travelers may not need to download, if the streaming is good. But yeah...we need the downloads, personally I don't need them, but I know a lot of you do need it. So I'd never suggest getting rid of the downloads, that's stupid.

                                                        Hairsational I get that you want a cheaper sub option but that's not what this thread is about

                                                        What do you mean, I'm advocating to keep the downloads but also give an alternative option.

                                                        The vr sites are advocating no downloads. Not me. Lol

                                                          vrpicasso they somehow took over the oculusnsfw sub with that bullshit thread listing VRporn as everyone's favorite website, based on a poll which didn't even include them. The poll was open for like 3 days or something, initially excluded SLR

                                                          Man... I remember hearing something about this, but thank you for reminding us again with the links and how VRPorn.com wasn't even on the initial poll! I've actually submitted "mod mail" to the moderators 2 weeks ago after the news of the download button, to try and get this sticky post edited, or have the top sites removed, but they haven't responded (nor do I imagine they will).

                                                          I really wish we can somehow get that post removed... It's truly a disservice to new customers. It's not at all indicative of trustworthy VR sites, and sites that produce good VR content. Even putting aside that the results were fixed / doctored, the rankings are severely outdated too.

                                                          There was a tiny ounce of belief that I thought maybe VRB isn't so dense and stupid that there has to be another reason besides piracy that they removed downloads... But nope. After reading that, and uncovering some of the May 25, 2023 posts pointing towards piracy as the reason... really shows just how dumb VRB is. The pirates will still be able to rip/download the scene and post it on the internet. What VRB did by disabling downloads only punishes their paying subscribers. The ones that actually pay for their porn! Pirates will always find a way. My goodness VRB... idiots.

                                                              SchnuppiLilac Same thing just happened to me, “suspended indefinitely.”
                                                              Didn’t harass anyone. Just stated my own disappointed in their discission to take away downloads, the issues using playa desktop app to download, acknowledged the fake accounts posting on videos and supported others posting their issues. LOL

                                                                  g2kbuffetboy Make a post about how they are deleting posts and banning users who speak out about the download removal. That'll probably do it 🤣

                                                                  Is the post about the lawsuit still there? I'd imagine that would have been removed quickly.

                                                                      g2kbuffetboy Everyone who was calling out their obviously fake accounts to praise all their own videos and talk crap back at their users, seem to be gone now too.

                                                                      Man... seriously. VRB videos are only to be acquired on the high seas, from this point forward. I will never give that company money again.

                                                                        Last thing I saw was that they were called out for tampering with the Terms & Conditions. They officially claim they have updated them on June 10, two days before users were notified in the forum. One user had quoted a section of the T&C related to downloads in the forum on June 14, and the same user had noticed on June 24 that the part of the T&C that he had quoted had been secretly changed between June 14 and June 24, while VRB is still claiming that the last update took place on June 10.

                                                                        What they had added to the T&C retroactively was the fact that downloads are available only in the PLAY'A App.

                                                                        g2kbuffetboy I assume my forum account will be suspended soon enough... surprised it's not yet considering they just deleted a bunch of my posts.

                                                                        You may as well have been suspended - that forum is totally pointless now, the truth is out there !

                                                                          The way they handled it is nuts. They must really believe that they can sweep it all under the carpet with no consequences. It tells you everything you need to know about the management at that place, if it wasn't already obvious.

                                                                          Their posts under the alt accounts reminded me of how Jimmy reacted when he got called out here too.