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Content
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| Quality : |
15.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
13.5 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
11.5 / 15 |
| Updates : |
8.5 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
2.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
2.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
53.0 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
7.0 / 10 |
| Features : |
2.0 / 05 |
| Design : |
2.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
11.5 / 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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| Editor: Spencer |
Initial Review: 01-30-07 |
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1. A wide variety of content.
2. Great price.
3. Updates come often.
1. Site is still a mess.
2. Quality often needs work.
3. Mostly non-exclusive content.
4. No real identity or theme.
"Still a weird mish-mash of content, though they've been slowly expanding over the years." |
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We've looked at Mikey and Mandy's Most Original Porn Emporium (or Mikey and Mandy for short, or M&M for really short though you may get a cease and desist on that one) four times now including this new review. It's always been a bit of a strange site, with all sorts of random content on just a so-so site. They're cheap for sure at just $13 a month (which drops to $10 a month after a few rebills), and the updates come often these days. However, I couldn't really explain this site very easily as there's no real defining factor here. I've hoped for a solid identity for them for a while now, to give a clear idea of what kind of site they want to run, but it appears it's much the same as the last few times we've been here.
The goods:
- Great price. I mentioned it previously so there's no need to go into too much detail, but they're pretty cheap for a monthly price thankfully. With so little exclusive content overall (about 60 photo galleries), I wouldn't expect it to be too expensive.
- Updates come often. Updates seem to come every day or two now it seems which is pretty good considering the price tag. They're not always photo or video updates since the offer up articles, interviews, etc. as well, but something new is up at least.
- A very wide variety of content. I don't know if that's necessarily a good thing, because fans of any of these genres won't find enough of what they want. However, checking out their categories, you can find most anything including vintage, tits and asses, weird, ethnic, all shapes and sizes, she-males, art and animation, and B&D.
The bads:
- Site is still a mess. There are too many categories, too many links, too many places to go, and no great way to find any of it. There's no simple way to get around the site unfortunately. Add that to the lackluster design, and the site just needs a big makeover still.
- Lots of non-exclusive material. They actually started out only offering content from other paysites which was very strange. I believe that stuff can still be found, but there's other material here too. However, most is still non-exclusive, save for the "Mikey's Original Photos" section.
- No real identity or theme. A solid portion of their site is just promo material from other paysites, and now they have these "contributing editors" who give a little bit of content as well (which I'm not sure who exactly these people are). Mikey's original content section still isn't very big, but I think they need to really give themselves a niche and stick with it as much as possible.
- Quality often needs work. I guess that's what you get when you're not much in control of the material that comes in. It varies a ton of course, but often is a little subpar compared to today's newer sites.
Conclusion:
It's still a pretty weird site for me. They're doing better than way back in June, 2004 when we first looked at them. The site costs less, offers more content, and has more updates than before. However, the site is still a mess, the content is a bit of a mess at times, and they really don't focus much to try to snag specific users. With such a mixed bag, it's hard to know how to place this one, so I'll just leave it at this: you really won't find many sites like this out there!
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