Downloads plan revamp

Hairsational Those were the days...

Novenmber 17, 2023:

doublevr We are considering introducing lower price tiers for new subscribers.
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All the active subs will keep their current limits intact.

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Silly-Sausage
You are downloading more than 30 entire 20gb 8k porn files a months? Where are you storing this?

I download a shit ton for creative content and probably won’t feel this effect. I don’t think most people will notice

Silly-Sausage
I’m being realistic. As a lifetime user this would mean I have 50 downloads a month not to mention infinite streaming. As someone who has been extremely active for about 2 years I would not notice this.

This is still in the works as well. I don’t think the intent is to punish regular users, but to rather do something about those who are essentially downloading the entire catalogue.

I think discussions about this, which SLR is doing is important. Rather than VRbangers just straight up removing the option completely

xeddin1 I download a shit ton for creative content and probably won’t feel this effect. I don’t think most people will notice

It's quite simple: Anyone downloading more than 30/month will notice. If a shit ton is equivalent to no more than 30/month, then you will not.

doublevr Data hoarders showing the worst product loyalty will pay a fair price or go.

If these users are the problem, why not implement a plan that is more restrictive towards short-term subscribers only?

For example, Reality Lovers has the following model:

• 1 month: (4K) streaming only
• 3 months: 15 downloads per week
• 12 months: Unlimited downloads

Silly-Sausage
I've been active on the forums for 3 years and the switch from PC/VR to Quest3/DeoVR is when downloads became less of a concern for me. I now fall in the camp of not noticing because I can stream uninterruptedly without loading issues unlike before which was my original need for downloading. Data insights show Quest 2 and 3 are majority of headset users and SLR Streaming vs Downloads data paints a picture of how much regular users would be affected.

In my opinion, even just one download per day is better than no downloads at all; possibilities still exist. Because I no longer use PC/VR and instead upgraded to Quest3/DeoVR which makes it possible to lay down watching vrporn, I plan on downloading one or two videos a day from either sub to my PC and then uploading them to my future SLR Drive to stream on my Quest3. I don't know what their download limits are, but I would imagine I fall on the reasonable side. If any of them remove the option, that's the end of my several years sub.

Silly-Sausage
Was your nickname Karen or Dunning-Kruger?

I feel like you should make an "unlimited download" tier, and price it accordingly.
But I agree it should be a "pay per use" type of thing, kind of like toll roads.

really bad move and will lose a lot of customers including me

doublevr Honestly, I saw this coming, just wasn't sure how or when. SLR has been taking smaller steps compared to VRB, who made a huge move by completely removing the download button. The goal is the same though, pushing people to use the app by streaming.

I just wanted to ask @doublevr, help me see things clearer, let's say in a year from now, you have 100% streaming users and 0 download allocations per month. How does this benefit your company beyond just 'collecting data'? Because personally, SLR is my favorite VR site and I do want to see it more successful, more success means better content for us.

[deleted] I think 100% removal of downloads like VRB did is a terrible idea. But 30/40/50 downloads a months plus extra when you stream for a few minutes… I personally don’t understand how some people are grabbing pitchforks over this. I think I download ALOT and I don’t reach this limit. The time it takes to download and storage space alone would not allow me to reach these limits.

I feel I am missing something as to why this amount of downloads per month is low. Or everyone just has 100TB of storage 10x fiber optics download speed