I'm sorry to hear about Viv jacking up the price. His photography is always good but, like you, I can't see paying over $30 a month for the vids. I've been personally wondering if he is sort of easing back a bit and trying to maximize the cash flow. I hope this isn't the case but, like some of the porn gurus who've came around before the internet age, I think he's never really caught up with the cyber world. His site(s) could be much better than what they are.
Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
Pros:
+ Large amount of all hardcore content (700+ DVD's with about 4200 total scenes).
+ Updates several times a week, averages about once a day.
+ Mostly exclusive content (some teenmegaworld content being added now).
+ Get access to their parody vids.
+ Mostly professional production values.
+ Good TBP price of $15 month
Cons:
- Navigation, tags, search and model directory all suck.
- Almost all scenes use condoms if that's an issue for you.
- Prechecked cross sale on signup, lots of advertising within the site itself. Site has upsells too.
- Live shows are dead (but you can buy old ones).
- Not really a picture site (almost all scenes have pics with zips though).
- Poor file labelling (just numbers)
- Download speeds are all over the place (I ranged from 1-2 mb/sec to about 100 kb/sec)
- Lots and lots of very generic porn that gets old fast with a lot of the same contract girls.
- Lighting can be really bad at times.
- Oldest vids are very low quality and I couldn't get many to play. Reliable scenes only go back to about '93/94 but are, understandably, quite low res.
- Lots of music in the vids that continue up to only a few years ago.
- You don't necessarily get all the new Wicked updates, new updates can be content that was released years ago (I think you you have to upgrade to get the hot "new" stuff).
Bottom Line:
I was debating whether to even review this one but the lack of recent reviews sort of made me buckle down with a few drinks and pound this crap out. In short, I was a member here back when the pyramids were being built and thought it was a decent site. However, my return was met with a completely overhauled site that left me scoring it a 73 only for the shear volume of content. Here goes nothing:
PICS: The newest scenes have awesome sized pics (2500x1600) but the pic counts are very low. It's only in 2013 and earlier that you get any decent number of pics (pics end in 2006). However, by late 2011 the pic sizes drop to 800x500 which is pointless by today's standards unless you like looking at pics on your phone. The pics all have large watermarks too.
VIDS: The newest vids are good sized and look good. However, by late 2011 the quality quickly drops and you get a lot of psuedo HD stuff (540 HD) that it just OK looking. Music starts appearing in the middle of the action as well. Had some issues with vids being way too dark. Lots of closeup shots and a lot of single camera viewpoint shots (guys, at least move the camera around once in a while).
NAV: This part really sucks. You got 84 pages of scenes that come up and you can only jump 2 pages at a time (note, just type in the page you want in the url address to avoid this). The scenes are poorly tagged, too generically tagged to be useful or not tagged at all. The model directory is not complete and often misses the group scenes. Model directory can't be searched alphabetically, only searchable by "likes" and "recently added". You get the point yet?
Overall, I can't recommend this site unless you got the royal hots for some of their contract stars and want to complete your collection. Too much "blah" generic action that, if you couldn't see the naughty bits, would be featured on late night HBO. Lots of hot girls but the action and way it's shot with lots of closeups and fixed cameras just dulled my brain. Basically, this site seems more like a dumping ground for Wicked as opposed to an online flagship effort.
There is more than just the content for Tricky Masseur. Part of the issue I think is that I've been combing through the earliest posts on Wowgirls and I think they used a lot of the TeenMegaWorld content just to help this site get jump started. So, for the earliest 1/3 of the hardcore content, I'd say it's pretty much all from the TMW site. You could very well be right as to the overlap of the more recent content.
I happened to notice that the 18xgirls is now closed. I used to join that site a lot and I believe that content just got wrapped into Wowgirls which is why I seeing so much duplication compared to my collection.
I maybe off the reservation on this one but here goes: I didn't really any research on this site before joining and now I'm left wondering why this place is getting such high scores. Usually I associate high scores with exclusive content but I've been a member here for a few days and I can pretty much say that as far as the hardcore content goes that this place is basically taking sets directly from the Teenmegaworld network and/or 18xgirls site. There may be a few a sets that are exclusive but most of it looks like the same material. They do change the names on some of the models between the sites but … you get my drift. The quality of some of the photo sets may be better here than on TMW but the videos appear to be about the same quality as the other sites.
I don't really get into solo content any more so I can't say how much of this is duplicated or not. Anyone happen to know on this?
If the content really is mostly duplicated then I guess I'd have to say that you should save a few bucks on the membership price and just join TMW or 18xgirls since they're cheaper.
Just wanted to say good review here. I took the tour and it looks promising but I think I'll wait for it to grow (hopefully it will) before shelling out $30 a month.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
+ Currently $15 a month through TBP.
+ Access to HardX, DarkX, LesbianX and EroticaX sites (785 vids and 1525 pic sets across all the sites).
+ Attractive, mostly American pornstarlets (teens to 20's mostly).
+ A variety of sex and setups. You probably won't get too bored.
+ Professional staging and production values.
+ 7 video download options – from 1080 down to 160 (no 4k).
+ All pics 1920x1280 at 96 dpi.
+ Good download speeds for me (3-5 mb/sec). No download limits.
+ Good looking sleek site design.
+ Model directory appears complete.
+ Options for leaving comments and rating scenes.
+ Exclusive content with daily updates.
Cons:
- Prechecked cross sale on signup.
- Uses a credit card processor my card company didn't like.
- Photo sets and videos are found in separate categories and most don't cross link. Photo set file names are just numbers.
- Until about May of 2017, photo sets were split into 2 separate updates: Glam shots and the Sex scene.
- Basically no model information.
- A fair amount of tatoos but not too bad on the amount of implants.
- Not all scenes have pics and vids.
- Navigation needs some work.
Bottom Line:
I'd been thinking about joining one of these sites recently so when I saw that they had finally put all of them under one roof for $15 a month I jumped on it. As stated, you get access to all four of the “X” sites. For those not in the know, here's a brief autopsy on what each site gives you:
DarkX: 198 pic sets, 102 vids. All hardcore site featuring mostly white girls with the usual overhung black talent. A lot of anal and some dp here. For whatever reason, the girls featured here tend to be a bit curvier than the other sites (most models appear on most of these sites).
HardX: 880 pic sets, 450 vids. All hardcore with a mix of everything going on. Probably a bit more hardcore than a run of the mill hardcore site but not much extreme. Again, a fair amount of anal. Also, a fair number of BTS vids.
EroticaX: 406 pic sets, 210 vids. All hardcore with the “heartcore” or couples vibe going on. I liked in that the couples seem to put more effort into the scenes here than most heartcore sites. Very little anal and no dp action.
LesbianX: 40 pic sets, 22 vids. Self explanatory.
PICS: All photo's come in at 1920x1280 (or vice-a-versa for portrait) at 96 dpi and all photo sets have zips although the zip file names are just a number. The photo's are almost all shot very well with limited pixelation and generally good focus. When viewing in browser I wish they would put all the pics on a single page, some sets can have 15 pages of pics. Until you get to late 2015 / early 2016 the number of photos tend to be skimpy (20-40 usually). After that the pic count jumps up to about 100-200 per set or more. I wish they would have had more full body shots on the sex scenes than they did. As usual, the videos have more content than the pics but not by much.
My biggest beef with the pics is that until a few months ago the “Glam” shots are separate from the sex scenes which is unnecessary in my book. Also, the photo sets are separated from the videos and most sets are not cross linked so you have to search through the pics separately. Lastly, the photo sets are not date stamped but the videos are – I'm guessing this is a “new site” snafu.
VIDS: I had very good download speeds for me. I liked the 7 download options (1080 down to 160). I found myself downloading a lot of 540p vids which look just as good as most 720p vids you see on other sites. The vids are all well shot and lit with high production values. They do have good file names for the downloads on the vids. You can watch the vids in browser (7 stream rate options) which is fast and pretty smooth with minimal buffer time when jumping around. There is preview popup icon on the the time bar when streaming which worked pretty well for all but the oldest vids.
NAV: The site looks good and has a sleek feel. You can view content by each site or overall (all pics or all vids) but you do run into some pagination issues on the latter. You can also watch dvd's although all it does is show which scenes are in a particular dvd. There are tags on the scenes but as usual I found them to be too generic to do a meaningful search. There is no model info but there is room for rating scenes and leaving comments. The biggest bugaboo here is the separate photo and video sections. I found it easiest to look things through going site by site.
This site bills through chargepay.net and is supported by something called openlife. Right after I joined I got a fraud alert text from my credit card company which I had to clear so that wasn't cool but I had no other issues joining (still have yet to cancel).
Overall, I was impressed with the site. While most of the girls are known commodities there is lots of stuff to see and almost all of it is well shot. As a picture lover, I wasn't thrilled with some of the picture issues but it certainly wasn't a deal breaker. At the current price, which I suspect won't last long, it's definitely on the must see list for most hardcore fans.
Don't know exactly how big you like them but Brazzersnetwork is relatively inexpensive, has a ton of big chested gals, no DL limits and has reasonable quality. DDF Busty is more expensive but has better quality and no DL limits.
I belonged to zpornstars probably about 5 years ago. I saw on TBP that they're offering a $10 reduced membership. Hopping over to the website redflags started jumping out. The front page (there is no tour) looks almost exactly like I remember it. The sample girls posted on the site have been around, or out of porn, for years and it looks like nothing new.
The TBP says there are no high rez pics or vids which was a bit of bummer to me when I was last there. The pic sets came in at around 800x600. It might be worth it if the pics and vids were higher quality but from what I see and what little the website is willing to show I doubt that this is nothing but really old recycled material.
If anyone has had a more recent experience I'd like to know if there is any newer material. Otherwise, if you've seen the older porn star material on the web I can't see any reason to go here.
Hi superporn and welcome to PU. Just wanted to note that a site that only updates 2x a week and has slow uploads is not worth a score of 100. We try and encourage people to be objective in their scoring, not just giving high scores because they really like a particular model. If you don't want to catch grief for your review then I would suggest reworking your review a little.
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