I got a year at X-Art last year, and I think it was more or less worth it, although probably could have saved some money by just joining on two seperate occasions throughout the year
I agree with you entirely. I wish the navigation here was a bit better, they used to have scenes tagged and stuff where their old site, but now it is just a model index. I think it is a highly underrated site. I was a member here last month, and never had any logout problems, so must be a recent thing, perhaps high server demand?
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
-Some attractive, obviously euro (I assume mostly Czech models), some I’ve seen many I haven’t
-Content has some interesting themes, castings, outdoor action, etc.
-Video technical quality is reasonably good, most are downloadable in two options 3000 kbps wmv and 1100 kbps mp4. I thought the mp4 actually looked pretty good even with the quite low bitrate and most of the videos I downloaded were in that format.
-Reasonably sized site, will review overall number in BL, 10 total sites.
-Good update schedule, 1 a day seems typical
-Reputable biller, I had CCBill
-Have subtitles, which is sort of a con in some scenes
-DL managers work (I used DTA), no DRM, get to choose login/password
-Content looks entirely exclusive to me
-Plenty of diversity in body types (which could also be a con I suppose)
Cons:
-Somewhat pricy compared to other sites
-Camerawork is poor, particularly the HC scenes which are mostly self-shot, and pretty bad for self-shot
-Some of the scenes make you a little uncomfortable; I’ll elaborate on that later
-Model quality is highly variable. I realize this is subjective, but there are quite a few, umm, not such attractive ladies here
-Scenes can get repetitive, and castings in particular are not very erotic
-Download speeds are inconsistent, varied for me between 300 KB/s and 1 MB/s
-Navigation is very basic, and a pretty major flaw. No real model index, some scenes are just given numbers, thumbnail previews are quite small for my laptop.
-No forum, ratings, or any other interactive elements
-Pretty much no photos
-Very little diversity in ethnicity
Bottom Line:
Overall I think this is a reasonable site, although it has some pretty major flaws. The major flaws being the ones I mentioned in the cons, and some of them really detract from the site. I find the self-shot scenes to be particularly irritating, and there are way too way too many of them here for me.
The site breakdown is as follows:
-Casting: 364 scenes, I assume 364 different models. Basic casting site, usually girl walks in, chats for a bit, gets undressed. In some scenes there is masturbation, toy, oral, and HC. I would estimate 30-40% of the material has some HC or oral aspect to it.
-Streets: 60 scenes, seems like more or less 60 different models. Mostly consists of them “finding” a girl, followed by sex in a public place
-Swingers: 16 scenes split into parts (70 total videos), group action.
-Amateurs: 43 scenes, mostly POV, amateurs, generally very poorly filmed.
-Gang Bang: 12 scenes, as the name implies, appears inactive no updates since March
-Sharking: 20 scenes, mostly involving them running around pulling shirts off women, short scenes, while I am sure it is probably set up, it did make me feel sort of icky
First Video: 22 scenes, amateur HC material, probably the best shot of any of the sites
Parties: 7 parties, 24 videos, typical party material with HC, also typically the most attractive ladies don’t get involved.
Lesbians: 8 scenes, large lesbian groups, appears to be inactive
As I said previously, the main thing that detracts from this site for me aside from the poor camera work is the sort of uncomfortable aspects to some of the scenes. I would assume most of these uncomfortable scenes were set up, but it still ruins the eroticism of it. The sharking site, and the casting site in particular are the worst offenders in this regard. Some of the casting scenes that go beyond nudity are a little odd, with the cameraman pulling out his member and trying to get the women to get him off in some fashion (in some of them the women refuse), while I have seen stuff like this before, in this case it really did seem like some of the women were actually not comfortable with the situation.
Other than those aspects, it is an interesting site, with sometimes interesting material. If you are particularly interested in some of the women here (the best way I could find out is via EBI although many aren’t listed), it may be an okay site to join for you. However, be prepared to get that icky feeling from time to time, and to spend an awful lot of time digging through it all. There are some attractive ladies here, even a few that I thought had retired, and some Czech models you will likely have seen elsewhere, but the navigation issues, and the general ick factor make it a difficult site for me to recommend.
I prefer picking my own, and on most sites I don't really have much of a concern about my account getting hacked - as they are typically not the biller so who cares?
I'd probably go with hodya's sentiments over mine, as he was certainly a more recent member, and I'm sure things change fast. Although I probably wont be joining here again until the limit is gone or stated as being much higher (or weekly), as I tend to only download on the weekends, so the limit was a particular nuisance for me.
I use a long HDMI cable with my laptop and have a media center PC in the bedroom, although my bedroom TV is smaller thank lk2's monitor, so it ain't exactly great.
When I was last a member there it was quite annoying when enforced (which I found to be quite regularly). From what others have said it seems as though it might not be there for returning members, which I was one but didn't sign up through one of their email offers. This was nine months ago though, so things may have changed - certainly seems from comments as it is still quite random as far as enforcement goes. It may be that they have different material on different servers or something and don't track between them well.
I usually only notice if it is horribly obvious or if it is a star I had seen before with smaller breasts. As I am generally not one for large breasts, perhaps I don't have the spotting skills of some of the pros around here.
I could see piracy being an issue for smaller sites certainly, but I got to admit this particular site would have a very hard time proving that as a reason for decreased revenue (no updates in years, dated and annoying navigation, stupid price structure), in this day if you make a junk site and don't update, everyone knows about it. Back in Lightspeed's heyday, they may have gotten away with it, but surely no longer.
They have done this before, when I joined a couple of years ago, they had the same setup. I would just wait around until they switch it back to giving network access. If they never do that, I probably wont be rejoining as often. I wonder if they are trying to make younglegal more of a standalone, as only 18only seems to be offered as a bonus to any of the individual sites.
After checking with support, they do allow downloads, just not for the discounted price they offer old members (for what they call full access). I guess you have to pay full price for that, but from a quick review they haven't added any new material in at least a few years.
For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to join this site again to replace some of the material I accidentally deleted recently. What a damn mistake, I expected it to all be recycled content, but they appear to have removed all downloadable videos and zips from the site, making the price absolutely absurd. Oh well, lesson learned, hope no one else makes the same mistake I did.
Nice review RA, I very much agree with your sentiments on this site. I do wish they had kept some of the browsing features they had on the old site (tags, etc). My only additional points would be that the pre-checked cross sale annoys me and I also don't get why there is also a wicked.com owned by a different company though it appears to just be a clone (and more expensive). Also, enough with the damn Octomom adds, christ, I wouldn't download that shit if it were free, let alone pay $5.00 extra for it.
Once again, good review, always like reading your opinions as they are so often similar to mine.
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