Quote: (01-14-2016 11:05 AM)chochemonger1 Wrote:
Is it just me or has Badoo changed this year. [...]
Now this year, I am in Colombia and they are expecting you to use credts when you message any chick, who has a higher rating than you....even if you have superpowers. Some even cost 40 to 90 credits to message. I am sure that girls love it, but this is trash for most men.
Around a month ago, they quietly did change the entire way this site works obviously. It is actually a paysite now without branding it that way. While in the past I could message around 5 chicks for free daily (except very popular ones which were usually the very few 10/10s on that site), the concept is now totally different. When I browse through a girl's profile, I have to click "like" at first in order for the messaging button to even show up, and then it needs usually 20 credits to write to any girl, as long as she didn't like me back (and liking back never happens). The amount of credits needed to write for a girl seems to vary based on some never-explained algorhythm and more popular girls sometimes would take as much as 200 credits to write to, which is a ridiculous price of around EUR 4 for one message!
I always liked the Badoo site a lot. I pulled three Czech beauties from it two years ago, and response rates in other European countries weren't so bad as well. Unlike Tinder I could use it on my PC and not smartphone-only, it has girls world-wide (and I can browse them world-wide and not just in my current city like on Tinder), tons of girls in every corner and city of every country (meaning it is not under-used in most countries like okcupid) and it basically was for free all the time as long as you sticked with your 5 free messages every day. But now? Probably I'll still use the site to pipeline from time to time when going to other countries, but even when they "only" want 20 credits for messaging a new girl, it will probably take an investment of 20 Euros or more to properly pipeline for a trip.
What I fear could happen is that girls will start to less use Badoo from now, because the number of guys writing to them will probably significantly drop when EVERY single message costs money. They don't even bother to offer any kind of gold account where you pay a fixed price every month and unlimited messaging would be included. Pay-per-message with totally undefined and unpredictable numbers of credits needed is just the worst way they could change this site, and I wonder what they expect from it.
Is there any site left that works in a similar way world-wide, for free, and is heavily frequented by girls of all countries?
For Russia and Ukraine the Mamba site is still among the best options for pipelining, and their basic features including messaging remain free as well.