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Originally Posted by gracesfall
What about a micro-transaction model? You see it all the time with MMORPGs. The game is free to play with basic content but there is an upsell charge for the premium stuff.
I don't know how that would translate to porn sites...maybe low res v. high res or adding the ability to download vs. not being able to download. I just don't know.
What I do know is that the subscription model has all but died out in the online gaming world. How long before it bleeds over into the porn world?
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We are starting to see some of this in the webcam world (and to an extent with clip stores). You find a webcam girl you like you tip her X amount of tokens and she gives you a movie of her riding her favorite toy or fingering her biscuit or whatever. They also crowdfund there now as well. If a girl wants 3,000 tokens to get naked it doesn't matter if one guy pays it all or 300 people each pay 10 tokens. There are plenty of freeloaders, but there are enough willing to pay for the boobies that it works.
Recently there was someone on here asking for people to look at their site and they had a similar model. You could browse the whole site then buy individual movies off of it.
Will that work? It could, but the more savvy the surfers get the more they look around and say, "Why should I pay $4.95 per movie off this site when for $20 I can join that site and in a few days download 1,000 movies?" It is working for camgirls, but they can offer a one on one experience that most paysites cannot.
My prediction is that eventually there will be basically two levels of online porn. Most people will give up trying to make money with older stuff and it will all be available for free. Those sites will make some money with advertising. The other end of the spectrum will be sites that can offer something truly original. Be it just high end, top notch content or live one on one cams or some kind of virtual reality/interactive thing where you plug a fake vag into a USB port and you can bang the the girl of your choice. Hell, they might even have it go both ways so you can connect with someone on a cam and use the USB vag to bang her while she uses the USB peen to drill herself and you have virtual sex.
Those that produce this top line content will be very protective of it so finding it for free will be very hard or impossible.