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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
Do you honestly believe, in your heart of hearts, that getting rid of file lockers, processors for them, and alike will actually put the online porn industry genie back into the bottle?
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Long gone.
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By that I mean, considering the percentage of the industry (traffic, production, distribution) that Manwin now controls, do you think that there is going to be a resurgence in affiliates, or the middle class of the online industry? Or do you believe that certain elements of the "good ole days" are completely over?
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Even Manwin can't beat culture. And the culture today for porn is free.
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Originally Posted by Tijuana_Tom
Naw it's over.
Maybe Manwin will think up an idea to help the average webmaster make money again.
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Why should they, they're not important to them. The buyer is.
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Originally Posted by gabe100
RIP good old days. The aim is still the same. To create the best mousetrap possible to attract the joins, then make it Christmas everyday for the members and retain them for years. Beyond that, indeed, the good old days - as beautifully magical as they were - are long gone.
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For 99% of this industry that's out of their scope.
"Traffic" was the most expensive and fucked up king this industry could of created. It was over priced, rules over customers and let affiliates run the selling of the product.
It resulted in for most sites a bad customer experience because the sites were more interested in a good affiliate experience. It also created the culture of free porn. Screaming at piracy is like screaming at the clouds. The freeloads on Oron will not start buying in huge amounts, they will go to Tube sites and the sales off ads from them won't increase that well.
To sell to a repeat buy market you have to have a product worth repeat and not a better customer experience from any free source.