Feast or Famine

[dpconnoisseur1]

This topic can easily be summarized with "To each its own" but I was wondering if other forum dwellers felt the same.

I remember back IMHO the good old days Sineplex/Gonzo used to release daily scenes but as studios were added to the distribution network (of Sineplex -> LegalPorno -> AnalVids) the quantity of releases from the original studios were dropped. As time went on Gonzo again dropped releases to 5x weekly, then 3x weekly and on rare occasions 1x or 2x weekly. When forum dwellers of Gonzo studio complained XXX responded with and I paraphrase, the more content they released did not make them any more profit. I couldn't understand it because I was sure buying more but as a businessman it would be a no brainer to slow releases especially with dumb idea that after 30 months scenes could be purchased with free tickets accrued by members with continuous subscriptions.

I do believe I understand what XXX was saying now because looking at the quantity of scenes being released daily now (30x scenes) compared to a year (17x scenes) or 5 year (7x scenes) or 10 years (3x scenes) ago, releases have decupled, yet I can go days without finding a single scene that I want to purchase (Famine). As my frustration sets in for the lack of purchasable releases with AnalVids, they release a day with 2 or 3 purchasable scenes or 3 sequential days of one purchasable scenes IMHO (Feast).

Am I the only one that feels this feast or famine trend all the time ?

[dpconnoisseur1]

7 Day range:
11/05 - 0 of 25 (purchased of daily released)
11/04 - 0 of 19
11/03 - 2 of 20
11/02 - 0 of 15
11/01 - 4 of 21
10/31 - 1 of 24
10/30 - 2 of 53

I only purchased 5% (9) of the 177 scenes released this week.

[Jocke]

I buy on average one scene per day. 90% with pee and more than girl.
I am amazed at how it is possible with subtle nuances create new content.
Finally guys are taking pee from the girls. I have been waiting for this for a long time.
Still waiting for more girls to pee in standing doggy while being assfucked.

[YumYum74]

Well, I do find plenty of stuff I'm interested in, so in that way you could say feast for me.

But...

...the finding part *used* to be fun. Check out the daily releases, watch some trailers and check out the screenshots/photo gallery before buying. Almost like a fun daily ritual to see what popped up. But that has turned to basically an annoying chore since the releases (*cough*) started of all those scenes for that Only 3x Network Store (most of which must be many years old). Now it's just wading through tons and tons of ancient crap in the hopes you can find if the regular studios have something new... Can I hide a single studio (term used in the loosest way possible) from the 'New Scenes' tab in PB? That Only3x is fucking awful...

[drevokocur66]

99.99% Piss drinking, and piss from ass drinking. Sadly, very little of that. So much spit n spill going on.

[JayJams]

Just posted in similar thread, so quoting myself...

Agree...Main page of "new" scenes is a cluster fuck of garbage that is mostly not new. New to the site perhaps, but new as in newly released I think not.
User friendly, seems to be a term lost on the people running the show, for the better part of 2 years now.

Lets add to it, lately trailers that barely play, even in "WEB" view (no, it is not my connection). Can only assume it is their end with the massive amount of garbage being uploaded.

...and still almost 2 years later, trying to download any older scenes (that hit the 2 year old mile marker), always download at a snails pace. Again, not my connection. In fact when downloading from same host/server (cdn-video.gtflixtv.com), a new release and old release at same time, the old one will barely download, while the new release downloads normally/fast, so it's not me.

Tickets aren't simply thru the roof but make no sense, as to what gets how many. Tonight for instance...old BJ only scenes 30min tops, 7tickets and over. LOL, who the fuck is going to purchase that!?

And as I mentioned once before (if you search), the same scene across 2 different companies for two different ticket prices. They just seem like greedy FK's at this point, and can care less about their customer base. How many threads are there complaining about all sorts of issues for 2 years now, and they barely do anything about it (some of which would be so simple to correct).

[azdiddy179]

Have a look today. It’s a freak show. Can we just have one or two beautiful women per week getting a giant cock or two up their asses?! Today’s scenes, for example, have Brittany Bardot, who’s about 200 pounds and has an asshole like a baboon. Does anyone know of some good pornsites these days? Mike Adriano can occasionally have some hotties getting a big dick up the ass.

[JBird]

...the finding part *used* to be fun. Check out the daily releases, watch some trailers and check out the screenshots/photo gallery before buying. Almost like a fun daily ritual to see what popped up. But that has turned to basically an annoying chore since the releases (*cough*) started of all those scenes for that Only 3x Network Store (most of which must be many years old). Now it's just wading through tons and tons of ancient crap in the hopes you can find if the regular studios have something new... Can I hide a single studio (term used in the loosest way possible) from the 'New Scenes' tab in PB? That Only3x is fucking awful...

I couldn't agree more. There are now 180 studios with videos on AV. The numbers released every day overall, there are about 60 today, make the old tactics of looking through them as a group almost impossible so I just go to the individual studios with provenance and check there. Not as much fun but there's no alternative. It does mean there's a chance of missing a video that will appeal but it's a price I'm prepared to pay.

[lemmy123]

Well, I do find plenty of stuff I'm interested in, so in that way you could say feast for me.

But...

...the finding part *used* to be fun. Check out the daily releases, watch some trailers and check out the screenshots/photo gallery before buying. Almost like a fun daily ritual to see what popped up. But that has turned to basically an annoying chore since the releases (*cough*) started of all those scenes for that Only 3x Network Store (most of which must be many years old). Now it's just wading through tons and tons of ancient crap in the hopes you can find if the regular studios have something new... Can I hide a single studio (term used in the loosest way possible) from the 'New Scenes' tab in PB? That Only3x is fucking awful...

This!
Every single word you say!
Couldn't have phrased it better.

[avanfurwet]

Well, I do find plenty of stuff I'm interested in, so in that way you could say feast for me.

But...

...the finding part *used* to be fun. Check out the daily releases, watch some trailers and check out the screenshots/photo gallery before buying. Almost like a fun daily ritual to see what popped up. But that has turned to basically an annoying chore since the releases (*cough*) started of all those scenes for that Only 3x Network Store (most of which must be many years old). Now it's just wading through tons and tons of ancient crap in the hopes you can find if the regular studios have something new... Can I hide a single studio (term used in the loosest way possible) from the 'New Scenes' tab in PB? That Only3x is fucking awful...

Currently I think we can only add studios (and models and genres) to "favourites" individually, when creating our own custom "feed" to ignore scenes we don't want to wade through.

So if you wanted to "unfavourite" just 1 studio (or model or genre), you'd need to add all the others as favourites and keep adding new ones as they arrive. Obviously that isn't a viable approach.

IDK if it's worth asking support if they can add a control to the webpages to "select all" or "remove all" from your favourites list, or perhaps make a separate user-defined list for "unfavourites", as a starting point from which to choose your own custom feed? Maybe as a checkbox control instead of the current "radar" icon button for favourites which isn't very intuitive. I don't know how many customers even use it?

[avanfurwet]

Am I the only one that feels this feast or famine trend all the time ?

I'm feast or famine all the time, and always have been over the years.
Most days and many weeks I find nothing I want to buy.
Some (few) days I find 3 scenes I want to buy.
It all averages out in the end.

[ryukenmaster666]

I think I bought 1 scene last 3 weeks. Well new scene, because the famine right now allows me to complete some collections instead

[Seraph0257]

I will agree the store page is WAY too cluttered now days. If they want to keep adding new studios, they need to figure out a way to make it more attractive, instead of just looking like a clusterfuck. If nothing else, just show what studios put out new material and let the viewers look at that particular page.

[avanfurwet]

I think I bought 1 scene last 3 weeks. Well new scene, because the famine right now allows me to complete some collections instead

Yes, that's what I do. The back catalogue of good older scenes is amazing.

[only3x]

That Only3x is fucking awful...

Hey Gabe here from Only3x!

First and foremost I'm glad I could be here and also that I found your post.
Secondly, I'm so sorry about your experience with us. You see, we just started to distribute our stuff onto this amazing and exciting platform - hence the influx of "not fresfh" scenes we have. Because yes, we have a ton of those scenes in our library, what we will release over time and quickly nowadays, but we also release our current, self made, exclusive content as well what we are so proud of here at Only3x.

If you have any concern or issue or suggestion, please contact me here and I'll be more than happy to discuss it further!

-g

[dpconnoisseur1]

annoying chore since the releases (*cough*) started of all those scenes for that Only 3x Network Store (most of which must be many years old). Now it's just wading through tons and tons of ancient crap in the hopes you can find if the regular studios have something new...

I couldn't agree more it is like looking for the holy grail every day because so much content is currently cluttering the studios we are used to seeing and the worst part is that they are old scenes with premium ticket cost.

Lets add to it, lately trailers that barely play, even in "WEB" view (no, it is not my connection). Can only assume it is their end with the massive amount of garbage being uploaded.

...and still almost 2 years later, trying to download any older scenes (that hit the 2 year old mile marker), always download at a snails pace. Again, not my connection. In fact when downloading from same host/server (cdn-video.gtflixtv.com), a new release and old release at same time, the old one will barely download, while the new release downloads normally/fast, so it's not me.

, I thought it was only me for a while but then realized the site needs a lot of tuning. I have to reload pages several times to get all the scenes to show at times. The pictures don't always show and they tricked me by purposely slowing downloads of older scenes. I would stop and restart my downloads many times wondering WTF was going on.

Currently I think we can only add studios (and models and genres) to "favourites" individually, when creating our own custom "feed" to ignore scenes we don't want to wade through.

I know if management decides to respond, they will say use the feeds but it does not give us enough granular control to do anything worthy of our time. For instance if you choose a studio you get every scene by that studio. If you choose a sex act you get that sex for every studio. If you use both it gives you all scenes by both choices, which is not what you want. The only way to get somewhat more granular control is use "Advanced Search" but it doesn't save so you have to set it up every time which is a pain too. The site has just become so cluttered and unfriendly to use. AnalVids is lucky not to have a competitor on the market so members suffer since nothing is pressuring AnalVids to be better

[only3x]

old scenes with premium ticket cost.

I also need to add here something - we distributed most of our old scenes with a reduced pp, or with "subscription only" - yet it all released with $. I'm sure it is a technical issue, what hopefully they solve soon - I personally submitted a ticket about this to them.

[avanfurwet]

Monster scope creep in this thread, but whatever ...


Delivery speeds for older content

I buy quite a few older scenes and I've not noticed slower download speeds. But, I use a download manager and I don't sit watching the download progress. I just check back later to makes sure the download completed OK.

I guess it makes sense that older content which is available for free, or for free tickets, or for lower ticket prices, would be delivered from older, slower servers or hard drives or bandwidth or whatever pieces of tech determine delivery speeds. I guess what we customers see as a generic server address in our browser doesn't necessarily mean we know what actual piece of metal is grinding out the files behind the scenes.



Clutter

I think management understand that the explosion in quantity of content being put up for sale in the clipstore is making the shopfront look like a cluttered bazaar and it can be tedious and time-consuming to rummage around looking for what you like.

So far their response has been incremental, adding more filters, user account controls to show/hide content, "feeds", etc.

I think this approach is running out of road, and IMO a whole new shopfront design is really needed to enable customers easily to find content they want to buy.

IDK anything about websites, but a site redesign seems like a big and risky project. This is a huge website with a lot of moving parts. They need to weigh the risks of losing sales by continuing with the creaky old design, losing sales during teething period with a shiny new design, and costs of a new site design compared with it's estimated potential to increase sales. Is it worthwhile? I have no idea.


Feeds

So currently, as dpconnoisseur1 said, if you "favourite" both "Gonzo" studio and "DP" genre then "Feeds" retuens all Gonzo scenes regardless of genre and also all DP tagged scenes regardless of studio. Which isn't very useful.

As a further sticking plaster to enhance the Feeds, perhaps they could implement a "strict match" option like that in the main content filter.

If I understood correctly, this would change an "OR" query into an "AND" query, so my example above would now only return scenes which matched both Gonzo studio AND the DP tag.

Could that help?

[avanfurwet]

I support Only3X putting their scenes up for sale on Pornbox. Equal access and all that.

I just think the current website process of "daily releases" was built to support the business model a few years ago when Legalporno were selling a lower volume of current output from Grandi, Gonzo and a couple of other smaller labels.

This doesn't really work for a bulk upload of a trove of older material to be sold on a subscription model or whatever.

This isn't 3X's fault, it is what it is. But I think 3X would benefit from somehow separating their current output into the "daily releases" stream, and then bulk-uploading the older content straight into a 3X studio to be promoted as a package deal at attractive prices? Isn't that something like what happened with DDF/Pornbox and Private?

[only3x]

I support Only3X putting their scenes up for sale on Pornbox. Equal access and all that.

We actually started distribution here about 2 or so weeks ago with uploads and everything. To be in perspective, with the current pace up until december we release more than 1 a day, but from december 1 a day - and our schedule currently set until 2022 may

It is not what they do, we can schedule as we want actually. I could go ahead and push all our scenes at once, but it would make no sense. I understand your other statements though - as I said earlier, I'm more than happy to answer any questions regarding our content, but for the platform - we are just users who takes a monetization possibiliy as much as we can

[Itheleth]

I support Only3X putting their scenes up for sale on Pornbox. Equal access and all that.

We actually started distribution here about 2 or so weeks ago with uploads and everything. To be in perspective, with the current pace up until december we release more than 1 a day, but from december 1 a day - and our schedule currently set until 2022 may

It is not what they do, we can schedule as we want actually. I could go ahead and push all our scenes at once, but it would make no sense. I understand your other statements though - as I said earlier, I'm more than happy to answer any questions regarding our content, but for the platform - we are just users who takes a monetization possibiliy as much as we can

Curious about your new stuff. Are you responsible for the videos' presentation here though? It's pretty subpar.. tags don't match, description don't fit, trailers don't give ya any clue what to expect. Gotta sift through the screenshots to see what the deal is. But if no one's told ya about this, then this site is going to shit real fast.

[only3x]

I support Only3X putting their scenes up for sale on Pornbox. Equal access and all that.

We actually started distribution here about 2 or so weeks ago with uploads and everything. To be in perspective, with the current pace up until december we release more than 1 a day, but from december 1 a day - and our schedule currently set until 2022 may

It is not what they do, we can schedule as we want actually. I could go ahead and push all our scenes at once, but it would make no sense. I understand your other statements though - as I said earlier, I'm more than happy to answer any questions regarding our content, but for the platform - we are just users who takes a monetization possibiliy as much as we can

Curious about your new stuff. Are you responsible for the videos' presentation here though? It's pretty subpar.. tags don't match, description don't fit, trailers don't give ya any clue what to expect. Gotta sift through the screenshots to see what the deal is. But if no one's told ya about this, then this site is going to shit real fast.

We provide title and description with tags. Trailer is automatically made I believe - as I saw from the first part of the video. Which yes, not ideal. Unfortunately, once a scene is released here, I can't add a custom trailer to it to represent the scene more. Tag mismatch can occur because the data we provide can not be matched with their tags, hence something similar, but not quite the thing gets added. Do you have any examples of mismatched trailers?
(There is a limit of 2000 overall chars on the descriptions, so again - it gets cut off prematurely at points for sure...)

[only3x]

I support Only3X putting their scenes up for sale on Pornbox. Equal access and all that.

We actually started distribution here about 2 or so weeks ago with uploads and everything. To be in perspective, with the current pace up until december we release more than 1 a day, but from december 1 a day - and our schedule currently set until 2022 may

It is not what they do, we can schedule as we want actually. I could go ahead and push all our scenes at once, but it would make no sense. I understand your other statements though - as I said earlier, I'm more than happy to answer any questions regarding our content, but for the platform - we are just users who takes a monetization possibiliy as much as we can

Curious about your new stuff. Are you responsible for the videos' presentation here though? It's pretty subpar.. tags don't match, description don't fit, trailers don't give ya any clue what to expect. Gotta sift through the screenshots to see what the deal is. But if no one's told ya about this, then this site is going to shit real fast.

And yeah, noone really reached out to me about this up until that point - so thanks for the feedback! I saw our scenes released, but I did not went into deeper about specifics on it having a lot of other stuff on my plate

[only3x]

If interested, I opened this: viewtopic.php?f=96&t=36029 - so we can discuss this or others further

[MackZatis]

I feel the EXACT SAME way as the OP. I posted something related to this, but looking at a different aspect of it. Can't remember exactly right now, and don't feel like looking either.....
Oh I remember now, it was about the frequency of releases for models in a short time, then how even the most popular models have great lengths without any releases at all....
Case & Point; Alexxxa Vice
Had a flurry of scenes for many months in a row. Since then, not a one.... And most likely will be many many more months before anything is even a possibility if I remember what I read in her thread correctly.....

[dpconnoisseur1]

Only3X, thanks for taking the time to respond. We can be incredible supporting or critical in this forum. My main complain is not with any studio just from the changing scope of the umbrella site of AnalVids. I was used to a handful of releases but I could always find something to purchase. Now with all these nightly releases I go days without a single scene to purchases (27 releases tonight).