M_sicas_Candido wrote:I assume you mean AV. However, I was referring to exactly the opposite of what AV is (at least, the main studios). Current GIO, Yummy, AGO, NTP strive to produce above average quality material; however, even they are harmed by wear and tear and the excess of what is around them. And since these studios sell their scenes in an on-demand style and not by membership, they feel the effects of the wear and tear on the industry even faster.
I think that NRX proved that, even if you surround an absolutely amazing quality scene on the front page with lots of amateur shot garbage, that scene
will sell like mad.
It's not so much about the quality - which is arguably the best it's ever been - it's about overexposure to the type of product in general. It's the same if you take "Action Movie Shoot Out!" The "Action Movie Shoot Out!" was
an amazing movie. Everybody went to see it - and everybody loved it. Then they made Action Move Shoot Out 2! And then Action Movie Shoot Out 3! By the time you get to Action Movie Shoot Out 12! - people know what they're going to get.
In comparison to the original Action Movie Shoot Out! movie - Action Movie Shoot Out 12! beats it by every conceivable metric. It's just better in every single way it could be better. But ...
People have been absolutely drowned in a fire-hose worth of Action Shoot Out! movies. They're tired. They want and need something
different.That's why NRX sold as well as it did. For, as much as it
borrowed from the porn that had already been created up until that point, it completely recreated almost every metric by which porn itself was created. It felt like something
new. It no longer felt like Action Movie Shoot Out 2,000!
Which, in comparison, is an
under-exaggeration of the number of porn scenes we've seen shot in the exact same styles by the same studios over the past ten to fifteen years. Like, think about that,
2,000 is an
under-exaggeration. It doesn't exaggerate the amount of porn we've been fire-hosed with
enough. It honestly doesn't even come close.
M_sicas_Candido wrote:Well, who could have said 15 years ago that excess content would be one of the main factors that would lead to a loss of consumer interest? There is so much information thrown at us that it becomes tedious having to deal with it all. Many streaming platform subscribers say they spend more time looking for films or series than watching them. The same is happening with Pornbox. Among dozens (or even hundreds) of daily releases here, at most 3 are interesting, but they are the most expensive, and, therefore, not all of them have the sales figures they deserve, despite being good; this for a producer like Giorgio can end up being discouraging (again, due to the excess of poor quality content from horrible studies that are in competition for public attention).
In short, there is a lot of supply but not in line with users demand.
You hit a really good point here. It's tricky, though ...
NRX, when it first became a studio, wasn't producing the medium redefining porn it would in later years. It took some time for it to come into it's own - to really figure out what it wanted to do - and how it was going to do it. Sometimes - studios need some time to grow into their own.
But, in terms of the front page getting drowned in content,
it really is horrible. You see - porn isn't just
fresh for a day. A good scene should be able to sell for weeks and for months.
Problem is - the minute one day passes - there are, like you said, two hundred videos to scroll through that are
absolute garbage. You have to get to the third page after one day on Analvids to see yesterday's amazing content - and it's drowned out by incredibly low cost, low talent, low quality content that's just ... not worthy to be put on the same page as the rest of the material.
I get it - this is a business. They're doing what makes money. If they find someone that sells well enough on their own - they bring them in - and maybe those sales will help bring more eyes to the other content. But the set up of content discovery on the site is hurt as a result of it. Any kind of amazing scene has literally 24 hours to last before it gets lost under a deluge of fat people masterbating in a low lit room. I'm sorry - I am - I know you're not supposed to bad mouth the talent on here, and I more than agree with that - but some things just need to be said.
Those videos
lower the quality of everything else on the site. You would think the contrast would raise it, but it doesn't. It's like, "Here's some videos that are absolutely amazing - and here are some that are ... not even close to that level." So, if the rate of the videos that are "not even close to that level" are five to one of the videos that are amazing, then the site still gets a grungy feel to it.
The idea that an amazingly high quality Natasha Teen Hayek sisters scene gets driven down towards the bottom of the page as if somewhere were actively trying to hide it ... I can't see that being a good thing overall.
I remember AVLP back when they released like ... three to six scenes a day. You could go back over their content for the past month and see
amazing production after
amazing production. Everything was more of a knock-out than the thing that came before it. It was a truly a banquet fit for Kings. Now I'm watching two dirty unshaven fifty year olds fuck in what looks like a shipping container with light that could be best described as "mercifully low." And even if that isn't what every video is - just a couple of those types of videos being around makes the whole thing seem much cheaper and dirtier (not in a good way) than what it is.
It's like, the Hayek sisters getting BBC DAP'ed is getting back-seated for this crap? For real?
There are no easy solutions - I can't blame AVLP for trying to make money. I always understand that the agreement they have with everyone they sign on is that they get a spot on the front page every day as well. Makes absolute sense. I also get that you never know who might break out of the mold and become an absolutely front-tier industry-defining studio (NRX) and that that requires taking risks
and giving the studio a chance to grow and come into it's own.
I don't disagree with any of these things. But, like you said, when you open the front page and you see five videos that may be absolutely top level tier, and then, if you want to reach the next five videos that are top level tier, you have to spend a minute and a half swimming through ... not top level tier stuff ... it gets tiring. Anything more than a week old requires you to go back like ... 12 pages to find. It's essentially lost ...
forever.I know the front page tries to reconcile that, but ... really? It features an amazing scene that was shot in the last three months - and it gets updated like once ... every three weeks?
There needs to be a mechanism to filter the truly great AVLP productions from the ... not as fabulous. You can't wait for the bus when having a boner. If somebody has to actively sit down and search through content when they want to pull one out - then something isn't working there.
I don't disagree with any of the philosophies AV/PB has at the moment. I get it. I agree with it.
But the front page end result isn't working. It seems to highlight all the issues within the industry itself.
Losing NRX was
horrible for them. But they have studios that are actively trying to reach that summit. There are works that actively break new barriers in shooting porn, from camera angles, to progression of acts, to everything. There's some
amazing things coming out of AV/PB.
It's just too bad it's hidden under a mountain of webcam, odd kink, and 1-on-1 porn.