OFFICIAL
79.5
pretty good |
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Content
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| Quality : |
15.5 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
15.0 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
13.0 / 15 |
| Updates : |
8.5 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
4.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
2.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
58.0 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
7.0 / 10 |
| Features : |
2.5 / 05 |
| Design : |
2.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
12.0 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
3.5 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
3.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
7.0 / 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: Vanessa |
Initial Review: 04-13-08 |
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1. High quantity of fetish-type content.
2. Huge fetish community.
3. Some of the newer content looks great.
4. Large weekly updates.
1. Site design and navigation needs improvement.
2. Download/viewing options are limited.
3. Quality is all over the place.
"If it's the real naughty stuff you like, well then say hello to others like you." |
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Whips, chains, leather and more! Oh yes, much, much more. Wasteland is probably the biggest BDSM and fetish site of its kind. As this site solely dedicates itself to the Fetish and BDSM way of life, so does the members who frequent here, where many times the rules for sex carry over into aspects of everyday life. But unfortunately, a large community of BDSM content is not all it takes to make a great porn site these days. These are the times where quality reigns over quantity and site designs are becoming more and more advanced, whereas Wasteland is essentially that, a wasteland.
The Good:
- A huge member community with massive amounts of content that has been accumulating since 1995ish. Although it's tough to count, there has to be more than 750,000+ images and around 200+ videos listed here. offering much more than the average porn website; you can do everything from viewing pictures of your biggest fetish, to watching videos, to meeting other's in your area with these interests, to finding a wealth of information about this lifestyle. They've really been into Japanese bondage lately too, if that's your thing.
- Each week a new "edition" is added to the site. This edition offers new & re-issued photos, videos, articles, stories, and more. This has been a consistent feature at Wasteland for as long as I can remember, so it's nice to see that they're still keeping it going.
- Some of the newest content being added looks nice. Image sizes tend to be larger and broadband movie downloads offer bitrates from 900k and all the way up to 2000k.
The Bad:
- It looks like they're sticking with the original site design, which at this point is very outdated and hard to get used to. There's just so much stuff here that not having it categorized better does such an injustice to the content. I want to be able to search the site by fetish or model and have it turn up all of my options. Maybe I'm asking for too much? It seems that, as it is now, they've done the best they can at breaking things down into categories without having to do a whole site overload. The site and the amount of content is endless and not very well categorized. Until you get familiar with the member's area, which could take months in itself, you kind of just stumble on to things.
- Quality still varies somewhat and much of the older content is almost unwatchable. Of course this is expected for a site so large and one that has been around as long as Wasteland has.
- $35 bucks per month is still somewhat high for a paysite, even these days. But if you are into the BDSM and fetish lifestyle, then the amount of content and information here is priceless.
The Conclusion:
Only a couple things seem to have changed since our last look inside the Wasteland member's area about a year and a half ago, but overall it's nice to see that price is not one of them. Your updates still come weekly in a newsletter type structure, offering everything from New Features, photos, videos, articles, stories, etc. Quality still varies somewhat, but the newest images are looking nice, and the 2000k videos are a real treat for the eyes, but don't expect it to be the norm either. Wasteland is clearly an old school site with many contributors and followers, and deservingly so. It's just fallen behind when it comes to the daunting task of re-structuring, re-sizing, etc. Fortunately, my overall score should go up a bit this time.
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