OFFICIAL
78.5
pretty good |
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Content
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| Quality : |
15.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
13.5 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
14.0 / 15 |
| Updates : |
7.5 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
5.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
3.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
58.5 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
7.0 / 10 |
| Features : |
2.5 / 05 |
| Design : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
12.5 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
4.0 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
3.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
7.5 / 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. Decent video download options.
2. Very original extreme content.
3. Unique sites.
4. Sites are still growing.
1. Price is pretty high.
2. Quality needs to be improved.
3. Navigation wasn't the best.
"They do pretty well with their content consists of, but website skills need to be improved all around." |
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For those not familiar, I think the Sweet Entertainment Group, who are responsible for our site Sweet Members today, just got acquitted in a court up in Canada on obscenity charges. You know what that means! This stuff is pretty hardcore, so for all you extreme fetish lovers this may be a site to check out. While it's not terrible stuff, they do offer up niches such as peeing, fisting, sado, etc. so there's a definite slant towards the extreme. Even their more basic stuff such as cumshot sites are a little edgier than normal.
The network has 12 sites in it, and costs $35 a month. The price is a little higher than other networks we've looked at lately, but the content is all exclusive stuff and in such a niche that they can probably get away with it.
The sites have a bit of an amateur feel to them, and are kept pretty simple for the most part. They offer up the pic and video sections, and some extras (mostly their own material still), and that's about it. The sites load a little slow at times, which is especially noticeable when loading a page of thumbnails or something. When download videos, though, the speeds are decent, hovering right around 180KB/sec.
For photos, the sites are split about 50/50. Half will offer just screen caps, while the other half offer both screen caps and regular photos. The screen caps aren't anything special, and are kinda small (like 575x435 or so). The actual pictures aren't much better, as they're the same size but just look a bit clearer. There's nothing real special here, I guess the videos are where it's at.
One problem I had quite often was that some pages weren't loading in the photos section. It'd simply be a blank white page (either on the model's page, or the actual gallery page), that seemed to just not connect right. It was only specific girls, like there's something coded wrong, as compared to a temporary internet problem. I'm not sure if this is regular, but it sure was annoying when it happened (1/3 of the time, depending on the site).
In the videos section, about 2/3 of the sites offer both download and streaming options for the videos. They're usually offered in a high- and low-quality Windows Media version, as well as a Quicktime. The video is usually about what you'd expect to see on reality sites, with 320x240 and 300kbps being the norm. Once in a while I was really shocked at how bad the video quality got, though, with some horribly lit scenes and others that look like they were shot on a $10 webcam or something (the worst were the Sweet Loads clips I saw). Thankfully most of them looked fine, although I wouldn't give them any awards or anything :)
There's quite a few extras, most of which looks to be their own content too, which is a nice plus. The name of the game here, though, is extreme hardcore content. On their own, I'd say the sites are just average. But bringing you this much exclusive content in such an untapped niche is pretty cool. The thing that really hurts them is quality around the board, as it's just sub par no matter how you look at it. Navigation could be improved a bit (as could the design). But, if you're wanting this type of content, it definitely delivers. Maybe with some improvements in the future, they can do even better review-wise.
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 03-10-06 |
Well, the biggest news here is just the growth of the network. The individual sites are bigger, and there's more sites in the network than we saw last. They still serve up some of the craziest hardcore content you've seen before, and get quite creative with their ideas. Otherwise, the problems from before are still in effect as well, most notably the need for higher quality in my opinion. $35 is also still quite high for membership price, but at least you're getting some very original material for your money.
Score increased from 77.2 to 78.5.
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