I've been participating on MFC for over 4 years now, so consider myself to be somewhat experienced in the ways things happen around there. Not terribly difficult to conceive, you come to the site as a 'Guest' (one of those little pesky grey guys with a number attached) and that allows you to almost fully access the site and it's perks.
If you're just a casual perv, this level of 'membership' is perfect for you, you can check out all the girls and anonymously get your nut taken care of. Absolutely free!! What a deal.
Deal? I guess. It IS My FREE Cams after all. The name implies that everything around there is free.
Hate to break it to ya sunshine, nothing worth having or doing in this world is truly free.
Being a Guest is more like being the guy who puts his eye to the keyhole and hopes to catch a glimpse of something naughty, but not like you'll ever get invited into the room.
The models on MFC tend to mute the Guests pretty much automatically, and for good reason, since most of the ones that are allowed to speak tend to be little Napoleons and Hitlers... Demanding this or that, or they think they're Steven Spielberg and want to direct the show.... All rather annoying to the paying customers on MFC and the models. So good they do block them.
The next level of 'membership' is being a Basic. For this privilege you are asked to provide a valid email address and you get to choose a user name as a result. With this, you are basically no better than a guest, but a lot of models will let the Basics interact in the chat room until too many of them revert to their Guest roots and start demanding or generally be a nuisance. The reason models keep them active is the possibility of 'converting' them to actual tipping members (this rarely happens) or, to give their room the feeling of being bigger than it actually is. More numbers.
When I first found MFC, I logged in a couple of times as a Guest just to get the feel of the place, and when I found that it was somewhere I would enjoy, I went from Guest, to Basic to a full Premium member in a span of about 10 minutes.
What my biggest pet peeve is on MFC, are what I affectionately term 'Career Basics'. That is people who have been basic for a term of over a year, and in a lot of cases that I've seen, have been basic longer than the four years I've been on the site.
Why MFC allows people to take advantage of their services and bandwidth for so long without paying is really beyond me. I've seen other sites that allow you to 'preview' the site for less than a day without paying then you're cut off and need to reapply with a different email address AND IP address so as not to waste system resources on non-payers.
Other sites give you 15-30 minutes to join before they cut off your access to cams.
Totally the right way to run things, if you ask me. If Leo (owner and head Admin of MFC) and his minions of evil would pay attention, they'd realize they could spend the money they saved on bandwidth to improving the archaic services they offer paying customers. Stuff that other sites like Chaturbate offers happily. Countdown applications so we don't have to rely on 'Cam-Girl Math' and lets the girls concentrate on being sexy instead of figuring out what 100 minus 10 is... Or 'Room Moderators' where the model can assign trusted members the right to silence malcontents. Handy during shows where the models hands might be *ahem* busy....
There are other observations I've made over my time there on MFC and I will elaborate on them as time permits in upcoming entries of the 'GhostWriter Blog'
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Couldn't agree more 'GhostWriter'.. I've recently passed into what I term affectionately as elder-pervdom. That is 6 years continuous membership on MFC, on my primary account. I almost feel like a dirty old man admitting that.. (lol) The problems have been on-going as described, basic things you might take for granted on other sites are just not available at all. Guests and basics are rarely more than glorified trolls, and don't get me started on the $20 lifers that always seem to be happy to give advice on everything from clothing, to how to handle the cam, but are really just basics with perks.
ReplyDeleteSo I said '6 years on my main account' that leads to another thing that many of us have taken to doing.. I like many of my friends have multiple accounts, one public for me, and a few private for various reasons. My oldest accounts are 'friendless' and with good reason, I love my pervy crew that I run with, don't get me wrong. But there are times when I want to just do my own thing, and don't want to be bothered. While even the most basic messaging service online will let you go into a privacy mode, on MFC if you want some time to yourself without the system notifying everyone who has happened to add you to their list you have to create a new account. There's some headaches involved in that process, but nothing your average net-user won't be able to get around quickly and painlessly. But why should I need to create a private account, and switch logins whenever I want some alone time, when every damned service since ICQ has had a built in privacy feature? It isn't even a hard thing to figure out how to code.
Long-winded as ever, to basically just say, yeah, wish they'd pull their heads out of their asses at MFC and realize that their paying users are the ones that keep them alive.
~Random