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Originally Posted by BestXXXPorn
Edit: And further more on that last part... Do people not realize in the adult industry that if you use a prepackaged solution that isn't open source your offerings and functionality are limited only to what (and at what speed) your third party solution is capable of providing? And that you can never offer more (or different functionality) than your competition? Do people just play this game to make enough money to get by? Cause where I come from, we play to win...
Third party solutions are for startups, to minimize costs... once you get to a certain point you should be looking at developing custom software if you plan on taking on some market share rather than just sharing in the market...
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We've had/created our own affiliate software that produced 100's of sales daily and I've used mpa and nats for years as well. It sure wasn't a perfect world making our own... we went down during shows, had processors upgrades to deal with all the time, hacks to work with, it was an endless list.
The advantages to mpa/nats is it being used by many people, lots of people watching for errors, processor updates/issues, hacks, someone else adding in technology you totally don't understand and can't wrap your head around, someone else to manage coders that you may not be able o manage... with both you sometimes wait, sometimes you don't.
NATS/MPA3 can both look, offer, be greatly different than the next guy. You can expand them in endless ways, offer unique tools, change stats, add in any code you want really, build dating, vod, paysites, shopping sites, and make them all look different. Anything, any program has, any feature, can be built into NATS.
People play this game because it costs $1000's up to $10,000's less each month and plenty of people are wildly successful, millions a year and larger, using 3rd party software.