The last week has been rather interesting, as those who follow me on twitter will know, I've commissioned a custom scene from Mostwam Charlotte which was shot and delivered this week. I've also been encouraged to try the Mostwam.tv streaming site. Hopefully I'm posting this in the right place.
As some of you may know, I'm quite a prolific purchaser of downloadable scenes, indeed the term unofficially official archivist could be applied to me in relation to more than one producer site! I'm on my third external HD for WAM content and the latest vast cave of a drive has over 860 gig of material. What I do find is I tend to purchase scenes in a burst (and it can be a £50-£100+ burst) and then spend quite a long time downloading them all (even with high speed broadband.) What tends to happen is I have a day or more of downloading and start watching them at a later date there's nothing worse than starting to watch a scene and then having to wait for the next part to download. Watching scenes tends to go in short phases there's currently over 140 files in my downloads folder awaiting viewing! Buy now, watch later is probably a good business model for producers! Streaming seems to be growing across the market, although when the likes of the ITV player can be problematic and some streaming that claims to work on tablets doesn't, my scepticism towards such services in a niche market is I feel understandable.
I was encouraged by Leon to give Mostwam.TV a go, I guess it's the modern day equivalent of the Daz doorstep challenge move from several download stores to one streaming site! There are some encouraging sounding behind the scenes arrangements to keep speeds high wherever you are. So, how has it been after a week of streaming? Very good is the quick answer! From the PC there's been no issues watching scenes stream, I've even tested it in the evening while a download was running and didn't notice any issues. Unlike downloads, I can stream from Mostwam on my tablet too. This has been slightly more problematic with it initially struggling to play, however it is very easy to adjust the quality of the stream and slightly lowering it allows it to play smoothly on my tablet and I don't notice and difference. What I have noticed over the week is that I'm watching more scenes in a week firing up the PC tends to be a weekend thing, whereas the tablet is in use daily.
It has to be said there's a lot of media available for streaming the Mostwam stable is one of the most prolific producers with a huge back catalogue of scenes; proper messy, lots of mud, just dunked, just pied, just slimed, streetsplash, Top Gunge, Gungetankgirls and the newly launched Mostwam mud Wrestling are all there with huge numbers of scenes available. There are other scenes too grouped in various categories and if that wasn't enough, there are even some surprise scenes tucked away in there which make a rather pleasant surprise! I've no idea on the total number of scenes currently available, but at least one new scene goes up every day and older scenes are being uploaded too. It really is a fantastic site and at the most basic level; it costs me less for a Mostwam.tv streaming membership than I spend on downloads from the sites involved!
As I mentioned earlier, I commissioned a custom scene from Mostwam Charlotte. The whole experience has been great, from sending over an initial idea to receive a rough costing and having the opportunity to review and revise the scene before committing to it. Charlotte was thorough with lots of questions mover aspects of the scene, from the girls involved (quite a challenge given the roster available) to technical aspects (I won't say what or why.) I initially had Emily in mind for the scene and Charlotte suggested Alice as they work well together and the end result shows that nicely. Clothing was obviously discussed, probably quite frustratingly for Charlotte as I was quite vague with what I wanted, but the resulting outfits exceeded expectations. I was even offered the choice of gunge colour and again left it nice and vague for Charlotte and again the result was fantastic. I went very much down the gungetankgirls theme and created a complicated to explain but relatively simple quiz to give a winner and loser. Communication was great throughout the process, with virtually daily messages you get the impression that you're the only customer Charlotte's dealing with when we all know how busy she is. The scene itself is fantastic, I was laughing a lot watching it, the quiz played out well and the end gunging and aftermath were excellent. The scene will of course appear in Charlotte's download store and Mostwam.tv in due course, so I won't give away the result or even much of the game, suffice to say it is a cracking GTG style scene. The quality of the production is excellent, there's no lowering of the high standards we've come to expect from the Mostwam family of sites. The whole custom experience has been fantastic and as I'll be saving on my download expenditure I may well be able to commission another scene!
Look out for Numerically Challenged in Charlotte's UMD store and Mostwam.TV soon. I've attached a couple of quick screenshots from the game.
I'd also like to give a big thumbs up to Mostwam.tv - a huge collection of scenes in a huge variety, and as OP said, updated daily. The new stuff Charlotte is producing is wonderful, (and the models, like Emily you've mentioned) and discovering old classics I'd never seen before is such fun too (eg the restaurant scene between Megan and Jazz/Jo in the YCDTOTI section - and Streetsplash public). Amazing! Thanks Leon/Lisa.
I can only second what has been said. Charlotte is brilliant to deal with, communication is excellent and the custom she did for me is superb. Its called Excess Pies and Lisa Bonus, and its the best!