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It’s wild when a company releases a highly successful app that everyone has high praise for and instead of going “ok, how do we emulate that?” they all go “okay, let’s do something kinda like that, but way, way, way worse.” Just put out and app where I pay you X dollars a month to read manga. That’s it. That’s the formula for success.
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We'll definitely make more money if we chop a chapter into parts and charge tokens/slurp juice/coinz to rent them for 3 days.
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sinky posted:We'll definitely make more money if we chop a chapter into parts and charge tokens/slurp juice/coinz to rent them for 3 days. Yeah the whole gacha system where you get tokens you can exchange for half a manga chapter seems bad enough but then I discovered it is also only a rental. They've created a system where a digital rental is more expensive than buying physical media.
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May 10, 2023 14:02
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Yeah the whole gacha system where you get tokens you can exchange for half a manga chapter seems bad enough but then I discovered it is also only a rental. If you use points to unlock a chapter it should be available forever. It’s only a rental if you use the free options
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This is byzantine and absolutely brain dead when your competitor is offering flat sub prices:quote:There are many manga apps — such as VIZ Manga, Manga Plus and Crunchyroll Manga — that offer a select number of chapters for free before users are then prompted to sign up for a subscription. K Manga, on the other hand, does its free option a little differently.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:They've created a system where a digital rental is more expensive than buying physical media. Isn't that just the endgame? Pay for the privilege rather than ownership.
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that TechCrunch article posted:Points are another way for users to unlock chapters. Like tickets, these can also be earned by watching ads — each advertisement gives users 50 points. K Manga also grants them five points if they read certain titles. As far as price, it might technically be cheaper to buy chapters than it is to buy volumes (especially if you wait a couple weeks for the discount). Since volumes tend to be 9-10 chapters, at 69 cents a chapter you're cheaper than volumes if they're in the $10 range. Even a monthly series like Reincarnated as a Slime, with 4 old chapters @139 -> 560 vs. $10.20/volume on bookwalker. The problem is, you miss out on any volume extras and you're permanently attached to this app, and I wouldn't blame anyone who didn't want to deal with everything here (I don't want to deal with it myself, tbc) You might be able to keep up with one weekly series for free if you stick with ads (which is a chore and eats up device time! It sucks!). Keeping up with multiple series seems impossible to do without spending a bunch and that's not going to dissuade people from pirating. newershadow fucked around with this message at 22:33 on May 10, 2023 |
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May 10, 2023 22:20
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Myself and a few friends I have talked to who were very interested in this app have already un-installed it. Seems like a big missed opportunity for Kodansha! I would have been fine with it if the free stuff was free and unlimited and the pay stuff was just pay stuff. Once I saw the predatory mobile game bullshit it was over.
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May 10, 2023 22:42
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I have no idea how this business model is supposed to work, at all. Is the idea that people would rather schlorp down nonsense to read manga for """""""free""""""" than pay a sub? Because if you're that set on reading manga for free, I'm pretty sure piracy is easier than having to pretend to watch ads
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May 10, 2023 23:10
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I’m told this is pretty similar to how their app works in Japan, but that app at least has subscriptions to magazines you can pay
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May 10, 2023 23:52
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2.99 Canadian and I read all what Viz has out of “How do we relationship” and that’s a great manga. I wish it had a better name.
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Jerkface posted:This is byzantine and absolutely brain dead when your competitor is offering flat sub prices: Good lord. What MBA idiot came up with this??
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