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What? Really? Wow.. :joy:

Yeah. Before SC was bought by MindGeek, you could subscribe for a month and download any video you wanted. They also had three new scenes per week. Post sale, they cut back to two scenes per week and made it so you could only download if you got an expensive upgrade from the membership rate (which didn't go down with the change to fewer scenes and inability to download).

I get why the site owner doesn't want people buying a "short" membership, downloading everything, then cancelling. But what they're doing is price gouging. They're offering less and less content for more and more cost.
 
Yeah. Before SC was bought by MindGeek, you could subscribe for a month and download any video you wanted. They also had three new scenes per week. Post sale, they cut back to two scenes per week and made it so you could only download if you got an expensive upgrade from the membership rate (which didn't go down with the change to fewer scenes and inability to download).

I get why the site owner doesn't want people buying a "short" membership, downloading everything, then cancelling. But what they're doing is price gouging. They're offering less and less content for more and more cost.
Oh ic, thanks for the info.. I thought it's extra contents for stuff like BTS, etc... I guess, I'm going to rethink subscribing.
It's the same with stockbar.com. You can't download their videos anymore
 
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What’s everyone’s favorite Getaway? Mine’s Winter. I like the interaction and the side transitional stuff alongside the sex like exploring the house, trying local stuff or just a regular chit chat. I find those scenes entertaining (and that’s how I discovered the cute Atticus). The newer getaways cut down lots of these stuff. Bummer. Also, just in general, what other studios do similar vacation series? I know CorbinFisher did Costa Rica, Sydney and Scandinavia, and I think GayHoopla did Greece? Does BelAmi do it too? I know the studio took them on trips to Bali and such, not sure if it’s a part of their sexual getaway trip or not though.
 
I don't mind the complicated access as much as I mind the newer content itself being mostly crap.

I hear you. Although some of the newer/current guys are hot. I'm a Deacon and Asher fan. I like Josh. Jax and Jeb, too. Some others. Landon keeps coming back.

But to your point, I think the upcharging for "premium" accounts in order to download is not unrelated to the decline of the site w/r/t its newer output. If the new stuff was consistently good, three times a week, like it was in the past, plenty of fans would subscribe and they wouldn't have to limit downloading. With a regular account and no premium account on top of it, you can stream everything while you are a member. If you could download, too, you would be able to stop subscribing until enough new stuff interested you to make it worth rejoining. But if it was consistently good, people wouldn't stop and start memberships. Their restricting downloads to encourage ongoing memberships when the best means to get ongoing memberships would be to produce consistently good scenes.
 
I stand by the idea that the bad content, bad design, lack of downloads, and decline in update frequency is a feature, not a bug.

Mindgeek bought SC to destroy its position in favor of their own Men.com brand. It makes zero financial sense to prop up a site with someone else's brand indefinitely.
 
What’s everyone’s favorite Getaway? Mine’s Winter. I like the interaction and the side transitional stuff alongside the sex like exploring the house, trying local stuff or just a regular chit chat. I find those scenes entertaining (and that’s how I discovered the cute Atticus). The newer getaways cut down lots of these stuff. Bummer. Also, just in general, what other studios do similar vacation series? I know CorbinFisher did Costa Rica, Sydney and Scandinavia, and I think GayHoopla did Greece? Does BelAmi do it too? I know the studio took them on trips to Bali and such, not sure if it’s a part of their sexual getaway trip or not though.

Mine would be the Mountain Getaway especially the scene where David fucked Coleman in the mountain, total outdoor. David busted so much cum while Coleman just had the most beautiful cumshot.
 
What’s everyone’s favorite Getaway? Mine’s Winter. I like the interaction and the side transitional stuff alongside the sex like exploring the house, trying local stuff or just a regular chit chat. I find those scenes entertaining (and that’s how I discovered the cute Atticus). The newer getaways cut down lots of these stuff. Bummer. Also, just in general, what other studios do similar vacation series? I know CorbinFisher did Costa Rica, Sydney and Scandinavia, and I think GayHoopla did Greece? Does BelAmi do it too? I know the studio took them on trips to Bali and such, not sure if it’s a part of their sexual getaway trip or not though.

Mountain... best fucking. Most versatile. David was a star. And the gangbang on Bryce at the end was perfect

Winter.. the first 4-5 days. The beginning group carried it. Papa Bear Brodie is my fav. Tanner, Joey and Lane are always great. The last few days did nothing for me. Bunch of bottoms fucking each other

Wyoming was such a flop. Give me Jack, Lane, Derrick, Deacon and Asher and it would have been better. A less is more scenario
Palm Springs.. seems so classic SC. Curtis was born to suck dick and eat cum
 
I stand by the idea that the bad content, bad design, lack of downloads, and decline in update frequency is a feature, not a bug.

Mindgeek bought SC to destroy its position in favor of their own Men.com brand. It makes zero financial sense to prop up a site with someone else's brand indefinitely.

You may be correct. SC went from the best site to one of the worst in terms of new content. The pre MF scenes are mostly still there and great, too bad they have screwed with subs. pricing also.
 
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I stand by the idea that the bad content, bad design, lack of downloads, and decline in update frequency is a feature, not a bug.

Mindgeek bought SC to destroy its position in favor of their own Men.com brand. It makes zero financial sense to prop up a site with someone else's brand indefinitely.
well what would be the point of intentionally wasting money? I think they just don't know how to keep up the standards and don't really care
 
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well what would be the point of intentionally wasting money? I think they just don't know how to keep up the standards and don't really care

I tend to agree. In buying SC, they bought a large catalog of videos, a brand, and mailing lists. The root problem, I think, is that MindGeek is trying to run SC like they do their other sites. SC, CF, Chaos, RB, Active Duty when Dink ran it, etc., were labors of love for their owners. They had a certain type of guys and scenes they liked and that is what they produced. MindGeek is run by straight guys who are going through the motions. Sometimes they hit upon gold, often they don't. But the pricing scheme is a huge turnoff. I subscribed for quite a few years, but probably won't ever again unless they start allowing downloads for a reasonable subscription price. Even then, one or two scenes a week are a rip off for what they charge for the basic membership.
 
What’s everyone’s favorite Getaway? Mine’s Winter. I like the interaction and the side transitional stuff alongside the sex like exploring the house, trying local stuff or just a regular chit chat. I find those scenes entertaining (and that’s how I discovered the cute Atticus). The newer getaways cut down lots of these stuff. Bummer. Also, just in general, what other studios do similar vacation series? I know CorbinFisher did Costa Rica, Sydney and Scandinavia, and I think GayHoopla did Greece? Does BelAmi do it too? I know the studio took them on trips to Bali and such, not sure if it’s a part of their sexual getaway trip or not though.

Mountain Getaway for me, hands down. Although I only watched the videos for Coleman, David, and Tanner. Didn't like the other guys on the trip. Hawaii Fuckfest is a close second because Doug bottomed for Keith, albeit a short period of time. I wish Doug returned or bottomed more on the trip (the clip of him bottoming for Jake in the BTS doesn't count as a full scene imo).
 
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well what would be the point of intentionally wasting money? I think they just don't know how to keep up the standards and don't really care

It's not uncommon for a competing brand to purchase another brand simply to move them out of the way. There's many ways to do that. They could have just rebranded them at the start, but they understand their audience enough to know they could just water down the SC brand for a while and still make a ton of money.