OFFICIAL
78.0
pretty good |
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Content
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| Quality : |
17.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
13.5 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
13.5 / 15 |
| Updates : |
8.0 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
5.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
2.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
59.5 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
7.0 / 10 |
| Features : |
2.5 / 05 |
| Design : |
2.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
12.0 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
3.0 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
2.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
5.5 / 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. Exclusive fetish content.
2. Great photography.
3. Some high-res images being added.
4. Premium video quality looks great.
1. Pricing might be a turn off to potential members.
2. No full-length video streams/dowloads.
3. Site navigation could be improved.
4. Videos are download only.
"If you can get over the pricing structure & navigational issues, Captive Culture has some very nice fetish content." |
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Captive Culture.com definitely has the appeal to be one of the most interesting sites we've looked at in a long while. The tour shows sexy girls wearing latex and leather, heels, corsets, etc. and sporting ropes, whips and more. They specialize in "glamour bondage, total restraint, gorgeous women, slave training, and female domination". The member’s area is home to close to 20,000+ images and over 1,360+ semi-short videos as well as a member’s forum and chat room. There are a couple different types of memberships here, or different membership levels I should say:
Classic - a very basic membership, only giving access to about 5,500+ images (Best of's) and 640+ videos
Gold - gives complete access to the image series and the 640+ videos
Platinum - offers even more with full-length videos (all 1,360+) as well as the complete image archive, behind the scenes and more.
All of your pricing options here are 1 time fees, with the Classic membership offering 1 month at $25 bucks. Both the Gold ($45) and Platinum ($60) memberships offer a 3 month plan, but there is an option for 6 months as well. Based on what is offered and the cost, it is clear that the Gold or Platinum memberships are your best deal, however, that is quite a commitment assuming you don't really know what you're going to get inside or if you'll find the content to be worth it. So I guess that's where my job comes in.
One of the first things you'll notice about Captive Culture is its clean site design. I loved the simple feel of it and it even almost takes on a simplistic yet savvy, artistic feel. Once you start getting into the content a little bit, however, things change. The content here is listed in chronological order by series (archives), by shoot, then by sequence. There are some nice options available for the content, though, like the ability to download the series into zip archives, and the quality is super nice, image sizes are large and it's clear that they have some professionals behind the cameras here. I love the artistic nature of the shots, the play with color, light contrasts, and range of focus. They girls here are indeed really hot and placed in fetish heavy conditions is a real turn-on for those of you who are interested. Even if you don't have a ploy for all things leathery, latexy, tied up, held down, whipped, spanked and tortured, it's likely that you will enjoy the content here.
As far as browsing the site goes it's clear that there's plenty of room for improvement. Content categories would help a ton and a search function would be nice as well. There is a model list of the girls which gives you plenty of background info on them, unfortunately though, there are no links to their content from this index, which is odd. The videos are indexed much like the images and are download only zip files, playing as files. The quality is quite nice but since the videos (and full-length videos offered to Platinum members) are only available as a series of clips, what would really bump this site up a notch for me would be for streaming options in addition to the zip files as well as an actual full-length stream/download option for them. All in all I think the Captive Culture is a unique site offering great content in a niche that usually doesn't do too well when it comes to the quality department. There are plenty of improvements that can be made to the function ability of the site and how you browse the content but that is true to be said of most sites out there. While 3 months may seem like a big commitment at a one shot high(er) price than what you might be used to, the Platinum membership is actually a good deal and gives you a no-hassle 3 month membership to a good quality fetish content site featuring hot chicks. This is a site that I hope to see continue to grow and improve itself and I look forward to checking back in with things here in the future.
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 12-09-06 |
There are so many different membership options at Captive Culture that it's even hard to get my thoughts straight enough to write this follow-up. By reading the announcement’s page, right away I find out at least a couple of things that are new or different here: Premium and full-length videos for the Platinum members are now in their own section for easier navigation, larger image sizes are being offered to a small selection of rotating galleries for gold & platinum members as well. It's clear that they're working really hard to offer members the best they can and have a real passion for producing quality BDSM & fetish content. I love this site, I think it's great, but I'd also like to see these large format images offered for all of their content. I know it takes great time and more money to produce and host, which is why I also think it would be more beneficial to simplify the membership pricing. But that's just me, I'm sure Captive Culture knows what's best for them and what their members want to see. I just know that the direction things are headed, they might fall behind some. The Premium videos, too, are looking nicer, but I'd still really love to have a full-length option for download as well. There are still some hiccups to get over here, but overall I like the new additions.
Score increased from 77.8 to 78.0.
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