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| 04-01-11 10:40am - 5014 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Capn (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,740 Registered: Sep 05, '09 Location: Near the Beer! |
Networked Sites. Never having had a membership to one, I am not being specific here, just thinking in general terms. Do folk generally find these worthwhile? Whenever I see a site that appeals & it is part of a network, I usually find 75% or more of the other sites in the network never appeal. Often there is no apparent theme running through the sites subject matter, other than them generally being hardcore. Is this me being picky or is it just that softcore is not as well catered for as hardcore? Cap'n.  Admiral of the PU Hindenburg. 2009 PU AwardHilarious Post of the Year 2010 PU Award ( I would have preferred it to be Helpful Post of the Year for Guys who Hate 'Retail Therapy' ) :0/ Sanity is in the eye of the Beholder! | |
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| 04-01-11 11:16am - 5014 days | #2 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
My impression is there are plenty of hardcore networks. Very few softcore networks. I don't know of any great softcore video sites. There are plenty of excellent softcore photo sites: Met-art, MPL Studios, Femjoy, etc. | |
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| 04-01-11 11:31am - 5014 days | #3 | |
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Capn (0)
Active User Posts: 1,740 Registered: Sep 05, '09 Location: Near the Beer! |
Yes, I appreciate that, it was just the concept & appeal of these networked sites that I was trying to pin down. As I said, when I do bother to look at them, often I find only one or two sites out of twenty that may possibly appeal. Unless I am mistaken, I think you have to have a broad taste in hardcore for many of these networks to appeal. Other than the hardcore factor, they are often an eclectic mix of themes. Cap'n.  Admiral of the PU Hindenburg. 2009 PU AwardHilarious Post of the Year 2010 PU Award ( I would have preferred it to be Helpful Post of the Year for Guys who Hate 'Retail Therapy' ) :0/ Sanity is in the eye of the Beholder! | |
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| 04-01-11 12:10pm - 5014 days | #4 | |
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messmer (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 2,582 Registered: Sep 12, '07 Location: Canada |
A lot of folks find membership to a network worthwhile. I think it is because they like to collect certain models and those can usually be found throughout most of the sites, doing anal in one, dp in another, facials in a third etc. For me networks have been a disappointment for the reason that I don't collect models but rather certain niches, and I am being picky even there, so there's always the feeling: oops, I made a big mistake when I joined. I belonged to 21Sextury until recently and downloaded one to two scenes a week .. in a good one. I have a year long membership to Reality Kings at the moment but haven't downloaded anything in months because no matter how many sites there are, they all follow the same formula. At first I was enamored of this network because they actually had lead-ins to the sex scenes rather than raw Gonzo, but found very quickly that the same scenarios were being repeated from week to week to week in the various sites. Now I just have a casual look once a week, see nothing of interest and leave. That's why I say it is almost essential to be a fan of certain models, know them by their names and to collect them if you wish to enjoy these networks. I can't undo my subscription to Reality Kings but am joining single sites only in the meantime while my subscription to RK runs its neglected course. And you are right, softcore is much neglected. I wouldn't know of a single network that specializes in softcore only. Even the single sites that started out great gave in to the pleas for harder contents, and b/g and dildos abound, to a point where I have a terrible time finding an update that appeals to me. I think I'll have to quit this whole porn business soon and concentrate on looking at, or re-looking at, all the good stuff I've come across over the years.  | |
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| 04-01-11 12:45pm - 5014 days | #5 | |
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Capn (0)
Active User Posts: 1,740 Registered: Sep 05, '09 Location: Near the Beer! |
I think you may have hit upon a major factor there. My limited contact with them has been much the same. I suppose if you were a collector of a certain model, it might make more sense. The only softcore network I can bring to mind is the 'Only' network, but I'm afraid I would find that much more frustrating rather than a pleasure. As G once memorably said. 'All sizzle & no steak!' Maybe scale back the expenditure & delve into the collection. That is what I have done of late & have come across some real gems I had forgotten about. Cap'n.  Admiral of the PU Hindenburg. 2009 PU AwardHilarious Post of the Year 2010 PU Award ( I would have preferred it to be Helpful Post of the Year for Guys who Hate 'Retail Therapy' ) :0/ Sanity is in the eye of the Beholder! | |
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| 04-01-11 01:30pm - 5014 days | #6 | |
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messmer (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,582 Registered: Sep 12, '07 Location: Canada |
Arghh .. don't mention the "Only" network. I subscribed to "Only Tease" and it was a major disappointment. Not only were they too soft but the clothes and lingerie were not to my taste either .. some exceptions, of course. Delve into your collection: That's what I have done lately. I had forgotten how many wonderful picture sets were sitting on my externals because I hadn't looked at them in months. It was a desperation move because, after I gleaned everything of interest from KarupsOW and AllOver30 (my latest re-subscription,) I have not seen one update in over a week that I would wish to download. Times are tough for lovers of mature women stripping gradually while revealing enticing lingerie in the process!  Funny thing is, in AO30 there seems to be an increased emphasis on models in lingerie but there is no tease to it. I am sure that you will wholeheartedly agree that the model should start fully clothed and end up fully naked, but sadly in many of the updates the model starts in bra, panties, garterbelt and nylons and stays that way throughout most of the set. I like the sets well enough to download at least some of them but it is not exactly what I had in mind because, to me, the eroticism has always been in the gradual strip tease and not in the lingerie, per se, even though I tend to label myself a lingerie fetishist. Didn't we talk about this before?  | |
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| 04-01-11 03:50pm - 5014 days | #7 | |
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Capn (0)
Active User Posts: 1,740 Registered: Sep 05, '09 Location: Near the Beer! |
Several times, but I don't tire of it. Cap'n.  Admiral of the PU Hindenburg. 2009 PU AwardHilarious Post of the Year 2010 PU Award ( I would have preferred it to be Helpful Post of the Year for Guys who Hate 'Retail Therapy' ) :0/ Sanity is in the eye of the Beholder! | |
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| 04-01-11 04:00pm - 5014 days | #8 | |
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Drooler (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 1,831 Registered: Mar 11, '07 Location: USA |
I'm not into the network concept. I'd rather have one site that does good updating instead of a network with sometimes this, sometimes that here or there. 21st Sextury used to just be Pix And Video and Club Sandy. I liked it that way. Simple. You can concentrate on the content without being distracted by the way the site(s) is/are set up. DDF used to just be 1byday. I liked that, too. I've had my fair share of network subscriptions, including Reality Pass and MyXXXpass and OnlyAllSites and the Peter Girls one and the Bikini Riot one and the Finest Models one and My Premium Pass and the Babelicious one ... Were they worth it? Yes, for the content, obviously. Being a pain-in-the-ass network isn't going to change the appeal of the content. It's just going to make it unnecessarily difficult to navigate to and organize on the user's end. You know, if I had 240 donuts in one big box and I put some of the donuts in each of 12 boxes, it might look as though there were more donuts, I guess, because there would be more boxes and the increased use of area would give the impression of there being more. Sure we could have "niche" donuts in different boxes, too, so everyone who only wanted cream-filled could get to them right away and get off on it. But content can be tagged in a simpler site design and collected with one click. You don't have to have a donut network to get yer cream-filled treats together. These overly complicated networks are just a deception. 1byday all by itself had content every day. Now it's some sites update often and others less and you wonder what this DDF BFD is all about. Reality Pass has a schedule of when each of its sites updates, so you have to check that if you want to know when the next episode of Mike's Apartment will air. See, it's more complicated. And you're not getting more. You're just spending more time trying to figure out how to get the same as you would with a simpler site. Yeah, I don't care for that. I wanted something new, so I left England for New England. Edited on Apr 01, 2011, 04:18pm | |
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| 04-01-11 11:58pm - 5013 days | #9 | |
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exotics4me (0)
Active User  Posts: 664 Registered: Jan 12, '07 Location: USA |
Really, for awhile there, I didn't care for networks. I can probably thank Brazzers for that, since I used a month subscription to download exactly one scene. I also am still having trouble with the DDF network, though I think it has more softcore-midcore on several of the sites in it. There are or were some softcore networks. Teen Dreams had a network, though part of the content was from Teen Dreams, it did have some exclusive sets. Their network had maybe 10 solo sites on it, all had the word "sweet" in front of the model's name. I know they had Sweet Eva, Sweet Peaches, that's about as close to a softcore network I've seen and if you've been to Teen Dreams there is a chance you have maybe 1/2 of the content.
Like with most things technical, my proven trial and error method worked again on this very problem you're talking about. One of the reasons I am so high on 21 Sextury's network's navigation is a little trick I accidentally found. You actually can block the other 35 sites by clicking an X beside the sites' name and you'll just see Pix and Video and Club Sandy updates. With their new account that lets you stay a "member" even after cancel, it seems to have made the network very usable. While those two sites are my biggest reason for joining this network, I have found some of the others like Cuties Galore and Lez Cuties to be really good too. Like I was telling Denner, this is where I found Willa, late to finding her but she has quite a few sets on those sites. I ended up blocking the non-exclusive sites, then would pick through the exclusive sites, blocking them as I got all the content I wanted from them. It almost seems too easy considering it's as simple as clicking the X, but I've never seen another network do this. Also liked the "lifetime member" feature since it gives you access to the member area even after your membership has expired, saves your settings, saves the blocked sites and you can sign in anytime and see what the new updates are. I think they're onto something with this. My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich. - Chuck Palahniuk | |
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| 04-02-11 11:12am - 5013 days | #10 | |
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messmer (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,582 Registered: Sep 12, '07 Location: Canada |
Hey, exotics, seeing that our tastes are so disparate do you think I might like DDF? | |
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| 04-02-11 04:14pm - 5013 days | #11 | |
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Drooler (0)
Disabled User Posts: 1,831 Registered: Mar 11, '07 Location: USA |
Exotics, when I was last a member of 21st Sextury a few months ago, I also found the "block" thing that allows filtering of content. And I also found it by accident. And it was helpful. But it's not keeping things simple. It's managing complexity. I wanted something new, so I left England for New England. | |
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| 04-02-11 07:04pm - 5013 days | #12 | |
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GCode (0)
Active User  Posts: 386 Registered: Feb 23, '09 Location: USA |
I have always found networks to be wishy washy when it comes to quality....There are a selected few that come through on this angle but most just put up a bunch of crap sites with poor quality that were/are updated once in a lifetime. For the most part, there tend to be more hardcore networks than softcore but they do exist. I just tend to think that companies (or sites, or producers, or whatever u like to call them) that focus on one or two sites tend to excel in the quality department. But, some people like quantity over quality....which leads to so many crap networks with a bunch of non-exclusive with some exclusive stuff as the focus. However, u can find some good ones out there, even with the softcore catered. However, in my searches I always found most networks to be like 30+ hardcore sites with like 3-5 softcore sites present. Plus, I see a common theme in networks with the softcore sites being non-updated solo model sites....just my 2 cents...good luck brotha Sexted From My iPad | |
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| 04-02-11 09:05pm - 5012 days | #13 | |
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slutty (0)
Active User Posts: 475 Registered: Mar 02, '09 Location: Pennsylvania |
My main problems with networks, aside from the general confusion, are places like RK and Bangbros, where there are 20 sites and I might be interested in like 4. I rarely go back to RK, even though I like Mike's Apartment and some other because it just feels like a pain in the ass. I do agree that it seems as though some sites, particularly euro ones use networks to hide limited content or sites that are no longer updated. If the site isn't updating, just merge it into something else. The closest i can think of as far as a true softcore network would be Lightspeed, but I don't think that place has updated in years. Bunny Lebowski: I'll suck your cock for a thousand dollars. Brandt: Ah hahahahaha! Wonderful woman. We're all, we're all very fond of her. Very free-spirited. | |
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| 04-07-11 12:41pm - 5008 days | #15 | |
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Capn (0)
Active User Posts: 1,740 Registered: Sep 05, '09 Location: Near the Beer! |
Seems to be pretty much as I thought then. I'm not missing much! Cap'n. Admiral of the PU Hindenburg. 2009 PU AwardHilarious Post of the Year 2010 PU Award ( I would have preferred it to be Helpful Post of the Year for Guys who Hate 'Retail Therapy' ) :0/ Sanity is in the eye of the Beholder! | |
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