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The issue, in my opinion, is that VR porn consumers have been conditioned to expect to get everything with one subscription so that has meant other sites can’t exist outside of the aggregator sites. One or two breaking away won’t work because there’s still a ton of new content coming to the aggregators and people will live without those couple of studios rather than pay another subscription.
If SLR only had their own SLRO scenes (and the same for Wankz/POVR), people would then have to make a decision to subscribe to other studios as I doubt SLRO alone would be enough for people. They’d have to subscribe to VRHush or RealjamVR or Fuckpass or Sexbabes or whatever. You would have more sites able to standalone and more sites who can take a risk without worrying about falling foul of SLR compliance.
That would mean we’re all worse off financially as we’d have to subscribe to more sites but it would probably mean a healthier VR porn industry. Instead we have this situation where everyone is trapped as there’s not enough money in going it alone so they have to put their scenes up on here to make ends meet but that then means there’s no need for us to join their own site as we get everything here at no extra cost.
As far as WankzVR goes, they only used to send really old stuff here, like years and years old. That wouldn’t really tank their subscriptions but it was probably a nice little income stream on older content that wasn’t earning them anything anymore. That was a choice for them just to earn a few extra bucks from old content. Studios like Realjam, Porncorn, SinsVR etc really have no choice, they’re stuck in a vicious circle. SLR/POVR/VRPorn simultaneously keep these 3rd party studios going and hold them back at the same time.
It’s just a pity that (aside from Naughty America) none of the big porn studios have really committed to giving VR a proper go and bringing their big subscriber bases with them. I’d love a BrazzersVR (done properly), an EvilangelVR, VixennetworkVR (Tushy, Blacked etc.) AdrianoVR, LegalPornoVR, PrivateVR and so on. I suppose Adulttime are giving it a go but they’re not making varied content like they do on their flat site. It’s just the same gonzo scene over and over.