Digital Desire (0)
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Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
The photography at digitaldesire.com is up there with the best. I've got nothing but admiration for the photographic acumen of the photographer who founded the site, the late, great J Stephen Hicks. His photography alone warrants a top score, but as you will see, there are other factors that I have to factor into this review. The good:
-over 700 models
-high quality, artistic glamour photos
-3198 photo sets
-resolution ranging from 3000x3000 to 711x466
-1323 videos
-resolution ranging from 1080P to 720P
-weekly updates |
| Cons: |
Unfortunately, the cons tend to overshadow the pros at this site:
-extensive amount of older content has been removed from the site
-removal of older content continues despite ongoing objections from members
-support is unresponsive |
| Bottom Line: |
When I join a site and plan to review it, I try to step outside of my own personal experience, and try to see it from the standpoint of who I imagine their typical customer to be. That being said, so that you can understand ny bias which I have tried to eliminate from the score, here is my personal experience.
I joined because I once saved a freaking amazing DDGXtreme photo of Michelle Michaels "squirting" (judging by the massive stream, she was really peeing, but all the better) for a DDGXtreme shoot. I joined the site, hoping to get this whole set and more, but found nothing. No squirting or peeing remained in their members section. So I asked support about it, and I got crickets.
Meanwhile, I checked their members forum, and learned that my experience was not unique. The forum is full of complaints about DDG removing old sets. This is apparently the way they have managed their site all along, even in the J Stephen Hicks days, with complaints about large segments of content missing going back before 2008.
Here's some history on the DDGXtreme content. Back in the mid 2000's, they noticed that more "extreme" content tended to sell better, even though it was not something that Hicks was into. The reluctantly shot it anyway and released it under the DDGXtreme section of the site. It included closeups, fingering, and penetration with dildos, while the majority of their content was strictly softcore nudes. I have the evidence that they shot a squirting scene too, although no one else among prior DDG customers who I have talked with seems to remember any squirting.
Around 2007, they decided to roll all of their content together as they re-launched their site as digitaldesire.com. Their official line is that the DDG content got rolled in with the DDGXtreme content. This is true in a sense - the DDG content that remains is intermixed with the DDGXtreme content that remains. The truth that they avoid addressing directly in the forums, and that members bring up again and again, is that large numbers of scenes from both DDG and DDGXtreme were lost when they re-launched digitaldesire.com. So as disappointed as I was as someone joining DDG looking for a rare squirting scene, I do not feel my score is too low, because the DDG forum is full of members who love the softcore shoots that DDG is known for, who are complaining about about missing scenes.
There are occasional cases where someone from DDG has responded to these complaints in their forum. The initial response was that they were remastering some older scenes. Their latest response was something along the lines of saying that all of the existing scenes have been remastered, but they will talk with the people doing that work to see if there are any more. The truth that went unsaid was that there are many scenes that do not exist anymore.
On one hand, I can only be so critical. I give the three photographers still at DDG a lot of credit for continuing to run the site, despite the tragic loss of Hicks, and for at least making some of his content available. Nine times out of ten a photographer such as Hicks does not have anyone to carry on his legacy, so I give credit for that. That is the sole reason that I did not ask for a refund - because I kind of respect that. The problem is, while I am glad DDG keeps some of this content available, they just don't do a great job at it. It is what it is.
I hope they have a forgotten archive somewhere that they can search through and do right by their members. While I came to this site with tastes that differ from the typical DDG member, I think my experience was actually typical.
Sites that habitually remove old content will only ruin their brand in the long run. |
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