LiveCamNetwork.com is expanding its chat hostess roster and adding studios to accommodate a more full schedule, the popular adult chat site announced September 19.
Part of the reason behind the expansion, according to Mark Prince, president of Live Cam Network owner 2much.net, is improving the quality of its member base and that means raising the bar for its chat hostesses.
"Right now, anyone and everyone can sign up with one of our sites and chat," Prince said, announcing the coming expansion. "But pretty soon we're going to be getting more selective. The only performers available on MBase will be those who do things right."
That includes hostesses talking and responding with their chat visitors without hiding faces or turning the sound down, according to 2much media and communications director Greg Jones.
"Interactive video chat means just that. Chat, live, video and audio, see and hear," Jones said. "So, basically, these models who don't want to be involved in their work, or show disrespect and contempt for the visitor to their chat room by ignoring him, not talking or showing a weird angle of her left shoulder and keyboard, we're not going to share into the MBase."
One factor seems to be that many chat hostesses log into different chat systems to maximize their profits, according to Sidney Zombay of InternetSexNetwork.com. "The result of this, of course, is your models will ignore one site for another," Zombay said. "You can't divide your time like that."
Another is that 2-4 frames-per-second video streaming on several different sites at once can slow the stream even more – even basically freezing the video, said LiveCamNetwork's Chile Concarne. "And with a fast (15 fps) stream like ours, that means we lose quality and speed," Concarne said. "We look just like any other site out there."
That, according to WallStreetGals.com's Geena Gekko, is intolerable. "Firstly, it makes us look bad," she said, "and secondly, it drags us down to a lowest common denominator level."
For Jones, it's a question of bringing live video chat into its own at last. "We're basically fighting the general state of the art to try and market the actual state of the art," he said. "The technology is there. We just want models and Webmasters to realize how good their stream can be."
