Adult Time (0)
|
|
| Status: |
Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
|
| Pros: |
- Probably the best-known network in the world. I remember hesitating to only rate it an 85 in 2019
- Quantity and Quality, a rare combination and would be the easiest site to recommend someone new to porn. Though they may hate you for it (see cons)
- My current membership says I have access to 201 channels which I don’t think includes the 33 original Adult Time series. Already getting confusing.
- Navigation that continues to offer what I talked about in 2019, loads of potential but it takes time to get used to it … like 2 years.
- Is one of the first networks of networks.
- Ultra-high technical quality on all newer content
- Adult Time Originals, they should focus more on these, they are very good. |
| Cons: |
- Channels, sites, networks, partner channels, series, could you possibly come up with 5 more names to call sites?
- Navigation is here too. If there is a site you once liked as a standalone site or network, for example, Vivid or 21 Sextury, the navigation on Adult Time doesn’t translate well. It makes once easy to use sites turn into clickfests and potential keyboard breakers.
- That price system. See the first paragraph of the bottom line.
- Download speeds are inconsistent. I sometimes download as fast as 90% of my max, other times it’s 30%. Possibly could be so many people downloading a particular scene. |
| Bottom Line: |
The price system, I headed to Adult Time to join for $24.95 with downloads. I had to catch up on the past year of Pure Taboo updates I had missed. There was no $24.95 option with downloads. The only option with downloads was to join for a year. Which I almost did. I am guessing that’s their thinking. As I went to close the tab, a box popped up on the screen and asked if I wanted a promo. I typed in yes, it asked 1, 3 or 12 months. I typed in 1 month. It gave me downloads and streaming for $14.95 for 1 month. Which was $5 cheaper than the streaming only monthly option it was offering. Seriously, I have been reviewing porn sites for 13 years. Just settle on a price and stick to it. I would say for those of us that join for 1 month at a time, $24.95 with downloads is fair. I know Adult Time wants to be the clear leader in the porn world but they won’t be if they don’t quit this bouncing around with their prices.
The navigation could be the best in porn. It is near the best for me but I have been a member on and off for 3 years. It is still confusing. They keep changing the wording. They have the sliders where you can choose what type of content you see, straight, lesbian, bisex, transsexual, gay, you can pick any or one and it works. That slider system is one of the greatest accomplishments in porn. But they couldn’t stop there. They then included “channels”. There’s 201. That’s more channels than the number of models on many sites. Do they stop there? No. There’s also 58 series. You get one more twist, categories. You need a month’s membership just to figure all this out. Why not just list the sites based on the slider choices?
Okay, done complaining, not really but done complaining about those parts. My biggest complaint against Adult Time when I scored it an 85 in 2019 was I already had a lot of the content. I was a member on 21 Sextury for 10+ years before Adult Time absorbed them. I was a member of Fame Digital for 10+ years before Adult Time. The same with Burning Angel, Devil’s Films and Fantasy Massage. Maybe not 10+ years on all those but I had the majority of content I wanted from those sites. It made Adult Time feel like a compilation of songs I already had on their original albums.
Except for the bright spots, told you I was almost done complaining, Pure Taboo, going back and revisiting memories from Vivid, Pretty Dirty, they’ve added more partner sites too like Thagson, Jav Studio, they have Girlsway with some of the best lesbian produced porn since Viv Thomas’ heyday, and that’s what I’m going to focus on. If Adult Time stuck to their originals, their own studios, their partners to add some variation, they could release more new scenes on their originals, their own studios, Pure Taboo, Pretty Dirty, Girlsway, and they would be the greatest porn studio they are trying to be. Instead, they are trying to keep 21 Sextury alive, Fame Digital, Devil’s Films, putting the resources into those sites that were dying 5-6 years ago.
It’s why I don’t own a porn site or studio. I wouldn’t give a damn about quantity, not over quality. I would see which of my sites were creating the most interest and that’s where the resources would go. It can’t even be said, “Different strokes for different folks”. The 21 Sextury scenes are similar to the Girlsway scenes, just not as good. The Fame Digital scenes are similar to all the other hardcore scenes on the newer sites they have, just not as good. The partner concept, to me, was one of their best moves. I had never heard of Thagson until I found myself wondering if I was spending too much time trying to figure out Adult Time’s navigation and not checking out other sites and studios. It would also make the navigation much simpler.
The high technical quality standards they have (see pros), are almost lost in all of this confusion. Great sites like Pure Taboo are almost lost in all this confusion. Maybe I am still complaining but I am raising my score to as high as I ever will score Adult Time, 8 points less than Pure Taboo, even though Pure Taboo comes with Adult Time. People don’t have time for all this searching and filtering. It is Adult time, the ones of us with jobs, lives and other important matters.
I would recommend it to new porn fans and collectors. You will get a long lesson in digging for content. |
Reply To Review Review in Favorites!
|
