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Drooler (Disabled)
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Babelicious really has gone the way of way-dull, formula-driven strip and toy play sites, just as Nubiles and Karupspc have. All used to be better sites in terms of interesting content, even though they've done redesigns and upped their server speeds and image and video sizes.
They're kind of analogous to rock bands that had strong fan bases until they sold out to gain mass appeal and from then on just churned out one mediocre piece of work after another, stuff that all sounds the same. And the disappointed fans complain!
But I wouldn't want any of these sites to shut down. They all have enormous archives of good stuff, still there to be enjoyed.
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12-11-09 11:30pm
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Capn (0)
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REPLY TO #1 - Drooler :
I reckon that is a fair assessment.
You can work to a niche or formula without it getting tired, but the creative effort put in has to be there.
If it isn't it soon shows.
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12-11-09 11:39pm
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Drooler (Disabled)
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REPLY TO #2 - Capn :
That's true. It's a process to get to something that really seems to work. But then it can turn on one, and destroy its creator.
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12-12-09 01:06am
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Drooler (Disabled)
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Sorry, but I think I spoke too soon. Reminds me that you can't assume ANYTHING in this world.
What I mean is that I see now that most of the pics in Babelicious and Sexy-Babes from the start of this month are now only available at 1000 px! What in the name of fuck do they think they're doing? Regressing back to 1999?
They might as well keep the site up but forget the updates. Who the hell wants images that small these days? The same shit can be found in a variety of larger sizes at a number of sites.
It really is an astoundingly stupid move on their part.
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12-12-09 04:50am
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PinkPanther (0)
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REPLY TO #4 - Drooler :
Yeah - exactly - and why I say "They stopped caring, so should you."
It's the same thing at their "premium" site, Babes.tv, which is posting the same mish-mash of licensed available-anywhere crap as the other sites.
And they've stopped updating Dreambabes.com, Eurobabes.com, etc - while leaving on the Sexybabes.tv "Bonus Sites" page that "Many of these sites are updated daily while others are updated once per week." DB and EB were both sites that had updates that had a different personality than Sexybabes.tv - and that's what's gone completely from these sites is any hint of personality or any indication that there is anybody in the company running these sites that's doing anything other than telling the company that they're licensing from - send us this many photo-sets this often - and then posting them.
I disagree with the comparison with Nubiles. I know that you don't like the direction that they have gone. I actually think that Nubiles are putting up a lot of good stuff and they clearly care about what they are doing - they're not running their site on auto-pilot as these people clearly are doing.
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12-12-09 05:50am
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Denner (0)
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Apart from the nice quote from 'Jackie Brown' - PP certainly got a point here... Babelicious used to be - well, just great. New material all the time. Then they started to marketing those other socalled bonus-sites - but what are they now - nada. (apart from the former glorious Babes.tv).
And, alas - even Babes.tv is on the same deroute.
How long will they survive - this is not a place to bet - but I'm tempted...
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12-12-09 07:04am
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PinkPanther (0)
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REPLY TO #6 - Denner :
Yeah - look at Babes.tv before and after the re-design.
Before the re-design, their updates had a definite personality. They were either glamour with a particularly debauched feel to them or gritty, like their awesome Jade Hsu updates - way past her prime, but still compelling and very sexy.
After the site re-design, what have they posted that couldn't be posted on a million other sites?
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12-12-09 07:12am
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Denner (0)
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REPLY TO #7 - PinkPanther :
Oh, yes PP - cannot agree more.
BTW: Babes.tv used to be one of my favorites. Still keeps some of my most precious videos from a time when that site was TOP - so went back a couple of times in this year of 2009 - and got just damn disapointed.
Alas, the site is history....
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12-12-09 07:30am
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anyonebutme (0)
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I suppose I have a different view on this site because I keep one of those emails saved that give access to their sites at $10/month. For that price, 90 updates in that month, not that bad of a deal (talking updates on all sites combined). A few months ago they put up some new photosets with a favorite girl of mine, some sets that have never been anywhere else, and I was glad to sign up and download them.
They could have gone the way of so many other sites and stopped updating completely. So they have to get credit there. They show all the available updates in the preview pages, so sign up when you see something you like, let them be when there are no updates you like.
The recent photos at 1000px, might be that's the only resolution they got from the photographer who sold them the sets. Who knows? Better they are out there than nothing at all. If you don't want them, then don't buy them. But someone else out there may love those girls and want the updates they do still put out.
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12-12-09 07:57am
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PinkPanther (0)
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REPLY TO #9 - anyonebutme :
"The recent photos at 1000px, might be that's the only resolution they got from the photographer who sold them the sets. Who knows?"
Check out the photoset posted at SexyBabes.tv yesterday - posted in a larger size 2 days earlier by Twisty's
So the people that SexyBabes.tv had only 1 resolution available to them but they made a higher resolution set available to Twisty's?
I doubt it.
I think that the people that run these sites just don't care to spend the extra money to make sets available in multiple resolutions anymore. I don't think they care about much at all in regard to these sites anymore.
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12-12-09 05:42pm
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