(08-01-2022 15:11 )bigglesworth Wrote: There is far less difference between ticket shows on CB and gold shows on BS than you suggest. There's actually not much difference at all. ...
You're right many of the trivialities are similar... but I'd argue there are also subtle differences introduced - some of which you've mentioned - made seemingly with an eye to granting maximum flexibility to the babes. Unfortunately, as is often the case in this industry, flexibility over scheduling and format translates as 'allowing the babes to get away with more'. Guys see this and resent it in their spending.
But far more central than this are two points already touched on many times in this thread. Thus, I'm glad to you for highlighting their importance in how the Golds are being perceived by punters. These are the things that have real consequence over guys' spending on such a feature it seems to me...
1. BS simply using the Golds as a major push to get more VIP subbers.
2. The artifical, entirely arbitary, curbs to fta content they introduced to help sell the Golds (and paywalls in general).
There are no proper equivalents of these 'twists' with other providers. The latter point in particular is simply toxic to many guys I feel. (The change also devalued guys' regular vibra/tips as each now has less purchasing power fta. Not BS wisest move ever perhaps that.) With such impactful change, the question becomes how many payers are willing to shrug off such open manipulation of their services in 2021 and on a 'net that's supposed to be all about less restrictions not operators making their own up to fucking suit!
I'd argue it's the sum of these differences that have made the Gold option feel manipulative and tacked on to the shows i.e. not a natural extension of giving guys greater choice but one that over emphasizes three things... the (nasty) spending part of interaction; the differences between punters (paying punters don't like reminding they don't all have the same chances of getting the same service from a babe); BS's own craftiness.
All this inclines punters to perceive the BS version of the Golds as entirely what they are: A new unnecessarily tampered with device put in place to favour the operator over the punters true choice at every turn. (As a kicker they even remove some babes' choices to work as they please. Very popular babes too it turns out. In general fanboy spenders don't like their babes fucked with in this way!
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Result, the only difference that counts: The Golds/Ticket shows on other platforms work
with the content around them and thus are a decent success. The Golds on BS feel wrong to guys (I'm not suggesting many punters think through all the crap I've written above), don't and aren't.