OFFICIAL
79.0
pretty good |
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Content
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| Quality : |
15.5 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
14.5 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
13.5 / 15 |
| Updates : |
7.5 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
3.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
2.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
56.5 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
8.5 / 10 |
| Features : |
3.0 / 05 |
| Design : |
3.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
15.0 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
3.0 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
6.0 / 10 |
Scoring Criteria New
New Update!
As of Aug 15th, 07, price of a site is no longer factored into the overall score/rank. |
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1. Consistent update schedule.
2. Great site design & navigation.
3. Lots of gay images, videos and extras.
1. Content quality could be improved.
2. Trial rebills at a more expensive price.
3. Mostly non-exclusive content.
"A party of a site, but quality v. price is becoming an issue." |
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"Twink models, original photos, video on demand"; all this and more can be expected from BoyzParty.com, a gay site featuring over 900+ models all within the 18-21 range. These young twinks are smooth and sexy, warmed up and ready to go. Inside the member's area you'll find a model listing of all 900+ models in over 80,000+ images and 525+ full-length videos for $19.95 per month. The truth of the matter here is that most of the content is not exclusive even though the site promises "original photos". Though they do separate their 921+ active models from their 50+ exclusive ones and their informative site design and consistent Sunday, Wednesday updates makes for a well groomed teen gay site.
You can browse the content here either by model or by photoset/video. All models are listed in alphabetical order along with their content and can be rated on a scale from 1-10. Models can also be sorted by rating, number of votes, as well as in chronological order. A favorite’s folder is provided for those special twinks you'd like to revisit. You can also select from a pull-down menu from all models to just the European ones, Latino or Black, etc. So far everything about the site appeared to be top notch compared to a lot of sites we look at. That is, until I went to check out the actual quality of the content. Unfortunately the image size and quality here is merely average. With such a great site, offering numerous navigational options, I sort-of expected more from the content itself. The quality is about average with the picture size also being average at about 800x600 pixels. Zip file downloads are available but it would be nice to also see an option for super high resolution quality images thrown in there as well. The only thing missing here is a search feature or content category breakdown. With so much content and so many models it was nice to see that the Photo listings offered drop down menu filters for specifics like softcore, solo, oral and anal as well as these keywords: American, Latino, European, Black, dildo, feet, group, exclusive and contributor. In anal alone there are over 163+ photosets so it's clear that there is a large mix of both softcore and hardcore content to be found here.
Similar to the photos, the video selection allows members to filter the 525+ videos using keywords similar keywords as well as giving a complete listing of the volumes featured. The videos range from as little as 7 minutes and up to 25 minutes +. You'll find over 230+ anal videos, 50+ oral videos and 247+ solo videos. The solo videos feature the guys undressing, jerking off, and even positioning themselves so they can suck their own cock - I swear! You can stream the videos as a full-length feature but unfortunately they are DRM protected, meaning that you must remain a member of the site in order to be able to view them. There is also a daily limit on the amount of content you are able to download. I only say this because as far as I know I was the only reviewer going over this site today and I wasn't able to stream the videos due to our exceeded daily limit. What I did gather, however, is that there is a large variety of video content here as well and the quality of them is about average. I would like to see some even better quality streams being added and the whole DRM thing just gets on my nerves.
Overall this is a great site for all fans of gay porn. My biggest complaint is over the image size and average quality content being offered here. Of course for the amount of content you're getting the price is definitely reasonable but offering super high res quality images and 500-700k video streams would greatly increase the amount of impact this site is capable of having. Getting around the members area is smooth, the navigational options are pretty damn good and the variety of gay content is refreshing (never thought I'd be saying that!). This is your run of the mill hardcore and softcore gay site type of porno but there is a lot of it being offered and even though most of the content is not exclusive to the site, the fact that they do offer even a couple of hundred exclusives is rather impressive. Also included in your membership here is access to tons of extras including live cam shows, live cam sites (College Boys Live) and other bonus videos/magazine content. For all that it offers BoyzParty.com is probably the best collection of gay content that I've seen so far (granted I am only toe deep in gay sites thus far).
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 02-27-07 |
Clearly I enjoyed Boys Party the first time around and I still like it this second time back, although I do have a few questions about numbers. Updates are coming regularly enough but according to my count there hasn't been a large increase in content in the past year and a half or so? The total number of models is still at around 900+ (935+ to be exact) and the total number of videos has only gone up to about 586+ from the 525 that were here last time. It seems as though they may have done away with some of their older content to make way for the new stuff. Maybe a separate archive could be added so member's can at least go back and see just how far Boys Party has come?
That aside, it does look like they've been working on improving the site by offering higher quality streams for their videos (800k), which I appreciate. It doesn't look as though they've made any changes to the sizing of the images, however. The other great news is that they've done away with the DRM for the videos, which means you can download as much as the daily download limit will allow you to your hard drive for future use. That's great news! Boys Party has also dropped the recurring price to $16.95 per month. All in all there's still plenty of content here to check out if you haven't already and the quality increase along with getting rid of the DRM protection will likely please potential members. Next time we're here I do hope to see a raise in the content count as well as larger image sizes being added.
Score increased from 79.4 to 82.0.
| 2nd Follow-Up Review |
Review: 02-04-08 |
Boys Party continues to party now with more than 640+ videos and 1,200+ image galleries. I was a little worried about the slow growth of the video section last time around, but now it seems I can breathe easy when it comes to the content count. However, I almost lost my breath when I noticed the price increase! Boyz Party used to be a reasonable $20/$17, but it looks like they've decided to go with a flat $30 bucks per month. That's quite a difference from before and to be really honest, it makes the slow bitrates stand out as a negative much more than before. It's clearly time for an upgrade in the quality department, that's for sure. I still do like the simplicity of the site design, but my spirits have been deflated somewhat this visit. Hopefully next time we're here we'll see another option for higher quality downloads to go with the inflated price tag.
Score decreased from 82.0 to 79.0.
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