Club Seventeen (0)
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
- Lets you choose models by breast size, which is a nice touch and pretty unusual in my experience.
- You can create your own video clip from the larger scene (looks like a 5 minute size/time limitation)
- .zipped photo sets available for many / most scenes.
- Good PU discount
- No DRM or download limits. |
| Cons: |
- Ads, ads, and more ads.
- More than a few technical issues.
- There isn't enough room here. See below. |
| Bottom Line: |
I even ran out of room here, too. I'll touch on some of the main points, though.
- 540p and 720p clips are identical sizes when downloading. (Catherine E, Carol A., Carina E., and many others). Sorry guys, but that's not possible. And it kept happening. I'd say 70%+ of the clips that didn't have 1080p as a download option were the same size when I checked. It would be okay if the rest of the site were outstanding, but as it is it only serves to make it appear even worse.
- Photo sets for many scenes are laughably small (600KB). I understand that many shoots are old, but one would think the images were archived at the best quality, and it doesn't seem likely that it would yield a web-page-promo sized set. Which brings us to:
- Not a whole lot of content considering the brand has been around for a very long time.
- Wrong actresses pictured in name/scenes. "Jeanine" (Rihanna Samuel) uses a photo of someone else entirely for the main thumbnail, which is a very bad thing on a site where the actresses use aliases.
- Scenes' pages have different formats. Some might list download options as "1080p, 540p, and 720p" while others list "High, Med, Low". It looks like it's different because the former is .mp4 while the latter is .wmv. Which brings us to:
- Multiple formats, but not in a good way. Streaming for one clip uses jwplayer (java?) but you're prompted to get silverlight for the same model's other clip on the next page.
- Lots of ads in the scene listings. Yes, they're listed as "bonus" videos, but you can't download them unless you pay somewhere else, which means they're advertisements for other sites sprinkled directly within the model's scenes.
- No useful naming structure or any meaningful identification of files. Oh no, one of the downloads failed. Which one? Who the hell knows, and you'll never, ever know unless you cross-reference each video in the folder full of "540p_fullcomplete" files you've been downloading against the hundreds of available videos on the site. Good luck. What was I looking for again? Oh yeah, her. Hey, there it is. That one. 540p_fullcomplete. Thank goodness I found it. Oh no, it's not that one. Maybe it's 540p_fullcomplete. Nope, not that one, either. 540p_fullcomplete, maybe. Nope. Not that one. 540p_fullcomplete? Crap, no.
It's especially irritating since each and every video is clearly given a name on the page you download from. "Christina Sits by the Pool" or "Jenny Is Home Alone" or something similar (each of those is made up, btw) is listed above the download options for every video. What do you get when you click them? 540p_fullcomplete and 540p_fullcomplete.
Other than grabbing a specific actress' clips and images, I can't see much of an advantage of this site over just joining Videosz or Videobox. They might not have the *exact* same content, but they appear to have lots of similar content if you just want to sample (24 pages of "Video Art Holland" clips, ~700 or so scenes at VB), and I bet the names have SOME defining characteristic, even if it's just the title of the movie. Not to mention thousands of other scenes from dozens of other studios, too.
- Actresses are often not credited and you only know the name because a comment was left by a user who helpfully tells everyone who she is.
- "Girl of the Week" repeats. Weeks 193 and 353, and 174 and 108 (and somehow amazingly the same as "Request 348"- why wouldn't the fan who made the request just go to the model's page and download the scene that already exists?) are an example, but there are many others.
- Lots of technical annoyances. For example: If you click on an image to view it it will load with the website darkened in the background. If you then press the right arrow to move on to the next image, the background (the website) will shift to the left. If you continue pressing the right arrow to view other photos in the series the website will shift entirely to the left side of your monitor, almost disappearing, and you'll need to move it back to the viewable part of your screen to continue.
- On the plus side, there are a few standout videos you should definitely get if you decide to join. 1080p_fullcomplete was almost perfect, with great models, good acting, and really nice action. 1080p_fullcomplete was another one that is a must-get, too. And if you like lesbian scenes, do not miss 1080p_fullcomplete. The energy between those two is amazing.
Bottom line:
This site, like Private, has such potential, talent, and name recognition that it could easily be competing at the level of the other big-name top tier sites, but the combination of "meh" quality, slipshod site design, and indifference to user experience / user friendliness is really disappointing.
Would I recommend? Sure, why not? It's cheap, it's not absolutely horrible, and you could complete a favorite actress' scene collection if that's what you're after.
Would I rejoin? Unlikely. |
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