While on one hand I agree that everyone just copies whatever is selling at the time (but how many ways can you really fuck someone on video?), on the other hand making something "better" or trying to find a new way to fuck someone is not going to bring in sales.
It is a different time now, look at the traffic the big tubes have for example. Their quality is SHIT, but they have all the traffic. Why? 1) It's free. 2) Because you don't really need amazing quality to rub one off. Their sheer traffic numbers do not lie and none of us can say their stats don't count. People just don't care like they used to. That plus, "produced" porn sucks, no matter how "good" it may look sitting next to a bunch of other shitty porn. Hence the popularity of true amateur sites, wife sites, GF sites and so on. Though, the bigger companies have murdered many of those niches as well with fake shit, but at the end of the day it doesn't even matter to a guy with his cock in his hand.
Shit, I can beat off to 95% of the TOURS out there. Then add all the free porn on top of that? Yea, I have some pay sites but I have no fucking idea why people still join them other than the fact that what I shoot thankfully most companies can't get their hands on, or at least if they do they ruin it with sites that are not authentic. But even then, while I do my best to get my videos off the free sites and file sharing, all of my competitors remain. Why join my site when you can get the same thing for free?
Honestly, this whole "give as much porn away for free" thing was the dumbest thing the industry has ever done in a long history of doing dumb things. The only thing dumber than that, was trying to compete with that business model and copying them! Well, look at us now.
To ice the shit cake, torrents and tubes dominate
almost every keyword on Google. Some keywords you have to go 3 or 4 pages deep just to get to a non-pirate site. How to compete with that? It's not about the surfers attention because we're losing many of them before they even start surfing. As if that's not bad enough, webmasters are RUNNING to compete with the same business model that is destroying everything. Simply amazing.
Pandora's box has been opened and there is no closing it. The industry will continue to incestuously molest itself until there is nothing left but a few major players who own it all. You can see it in play already, it is now just a matter of how long will it take for everyone else to close up shop. Just imagine 2 - 3 more years of this craziness and where we'll be.
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MUST be changed (and fast) or it's curtains for many of us.