X Empire (0)
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| Status: |
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
+ Currently $15 a month through TBP.
+ Access to HardX, DarkX, LesbianX and EroticaX sites (785 vids and 1525 pic sets across all the sites).
+ Attractive, mostly American pornstarlets (teens to 20's mostly).
+ A variety of sex and setups. You probably won't get too bored.
+ Professional staging and production values.
+ 7 video download options – from 1080 down to 160 (no 4k).
+ All pics 1920x1280 at 96 dpi.
+ Good download speeds for me (3-5 mb/sec). No download limits.
+ Good looking sleek site design.
+ Model directory appears complete.
+ Options for leaving comments and rating scenes.
+ Exclusive content with daily updates. |
| Cons: |
- Prechecked cross sale on signup.
- Uses a credit card processor my card company didn't like.
- Photo sets and videos are found in separate categories and most don't cross link. Photo set file names are just numbers.
- Until about May of 2017, photo sets were split into 2 separate updates: Glam shots and the Sex scene.
- Basically no model information.
- A fair amount of tatoos but not too bad on the amount of implants.
- Not all scenes have pics and vids.
- Navigation needs some work. |
| Bottom Line: |
I'd been thinking about joining one of these sites recently so when I saw that they had finally put all of them under one roof for $15 a month I jumped on it. As stated, you get access to all four of the “X” sites. For those not in the know, here's a brief autopsy on what each site gives you:
DarkX: 198 pic sets, 102 vids. All hardcore site featuring mostly white girls with the usual overhung black talent. A lot of anal and some dp here. For whatever reason, the girls featured here tend to be a bit curvier than the other sites (most models appear on most of these sites).
HardX: 880 pic sets, 450 vids. All hardcore with a mix of everything going on. Probably a bit more hardcore than a run of the mill hardcore site but not much extreme. Again, a fair amount of anal. Also, a fair number of BTS vids.
EroticaX: 406 pic sets, 210 vids. All hardcore with the “heartcore” or couples vibe going on. I liked in that the couples seem to put more effort into the scenes here than most heartcore sites. Very little anal and no dp action.
LesbianX: 40 pic sets, 22 vids. Self explanatory.
PICS: All photo's come in at 1920x1280 (or vice-a-versa for portrait) at 96 dpi and all photo sets have zips although the zip file names are just a number. The photo's are almost all shot very well with limited pixelation and generally good focus. When viewing in browser I wish they would put all the pics on a single page, some sets can have 15 pages of pics. Until you get to late 2015 / early 2016 the number of photos tend to be skimpy (20-40 usually). After that the pic count jumps up to about 100-200 per set or more. I wish they would have had more full body shots on the sex scenes than they did. As usual, the videos have more content than the pics but not by much.
My biggest beef with the pics is that until a few months ago the “Glam” shots are separate from the sex scenes which is unnecessary in my book. Also, the photo sets are separated from the videos and most sets are not cross linked so you have to search through the pics separately. Lastly, the photo sets are not date stamped but the videos are – I'm guessing this is a “new site” snafu.
VIDS: I had very good download speeds for me. I liked the 7 download options (1080 down to 160). I found myself downloading a lot of 540p vids which look just as good as most 720p vids you see on other sites. The vids are all well shot and lit with high production values. They do have good file names for the downloads on the vids. You can watch the vids in browser (7 stream rate options) which is fast and pretty smooth with minimal buffer time when jumping around. There is preview popup icon on the the time bar when streaming which worked pretty well for all but the oldest vids.
NAV: The site looks good and has a sleek feel. You can view content by each site or overall (all pics or all vids) but you do run into some pagination issues on the latter. You can also watch dvd's although all it does is show which scenes are in a particular dvd. There are tags on the scenes but as usual I found them to be too generic to do a meaningful search. There is no model info but there is room for rating scenes and leaving comments. The biggest bugaboo here is the separate photo and video sections. I found it easiest to look things through going site by site.
This site bills through chargepay.net and is supported by something called openlife. Right after I joined I got a fraud alert text from my credit card company which I had to clear so that wasn't cool but I had no other issues joining (still have yet to cancel).
Overall, I was impressed with the site. While most of the girls are known commodities there is lots of stuff to see and almost all of it is well shot. As a picture lover, I wasn't thrilled with some of the picture issues but it certainly wasn't a deal breaker. At the current price, which I suspect won't last long, it's definitely on the must see list for most hardcore fans. |
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