Originally Posted by kane

I find myself wondering if the MFC model will eventually be the downfall of the cam world. Here's my thought: I don't spend much time on MFC, but over time I have written a lot of reviews and done other things for clients that involve various cam sites. Most cam sites suck. They are packed with girls who have a dead look in their eye and do nothing but sit there and say, "take me private" over and over again. MFC is different. A lot of the girls have a lot of personality and it is more like a community. However, it seems like a lot of girls on there are bitching about getting tips. They want a total of 3,500 tokens (for example) to get naked and two hours later they still don't have it so they end up just leaving for the night or giving in and getting naked anyway.

My wonder is that if eventually people will just say, "why should I pay for any kind of private show when I can go to MFC, hang for a little bit and watch chicks getting off for free?" Sure, there will always be those that will tip and certain girls that have their followings, but I wonder if there will come a day where the freeloaders eventually overwhelm it. As an example. I just went to MFC, clicked on the link for the most popular rooms at the moment and two of the top four had hot girls using toys on themselves and one of the other two was fingering herself. I had my choice of three hot shows an I didn't spend a dime, nor do I really have any motivation to spend a dime.

I say all of this just based on history. Every time this industry decides to give more away for free it creates a lot of traffic, but seems to hurt sales and dilute earnings.

Just a thought.