[Locked] FAKKU State of the Union 2016

They're working on more options like 1 month/3months/6months subs but paypal said no to any digital content. Sub or books.

thanks for all the years of happiness that you guys gave me,but i cant eford to lose almost 10 % of my month income in a web page so, adues e boa sorte

You know, I just want to say that I'm behind your efforts to make this a site with licensed content. I remember Napster and Audio Galaxy back in the day and people made the same argument about downloading music for free. I think people forget sometimes that artists need to be paid for the work that they do and if this gets us in their good graces, then we'll see more and more artists work. There are a few artists that I buy in book form when they put something out like Napata and Homonculous, but on average --I don't download a lot. Go legit and bring us more Fap material!

Explain to me how "Telling an American company your third world problems is pointless. They set prices to make ends meet in their country of business." is bad-mouthing foriegners? lol
It's just honesty. Plain and simple. Just because 5% of their userbase is from say Jamaica, it would be bad business to set your prices so that the 5% can pay it. Doesn't mean that your country is bad or is undeserving, it's just impossible for them to operate on a price that fits you. In Jamaica $5 CAD covers an entire days pay for them. I can't even buy lunch with that.

Let me tell you, just because I make over 2k/mo, doesn't mean I'm a rich white man, either. My rent is $1280/mo and that's before hydro($150+), internet($150+), subscriptions($50+), food($250+/mo), gas($100/mo), water($40/mo), etc. $18.42/mo(conversion) for me is a modest amount for the service offered.

Agreed. I do sympathize with those born in areas with a poor economy (more so for more important reasons like affording food and shelter, not cheap porn), but you're right that that doesn't change how Fakku needs to operate as a business. If they can't afford a subscription, then there's probably a lot more pressing things that they can't afford as well.

You cancel the renewal right after you've subscribed. That way you'll have access to the service for a month, and only pay once.


Some general things that have been brought up repeatedly in this topic:

The subscription is too expensive
After the added fees we have to pay for working with adult content, the price is almost identical to what it would cost you to buy these two magazines in Japan on a monthly basis. While there are cons to what we offer (mainly that you don't own the content like you would have if you bought a physical copy), I believe there are far more benefits (main ones being you get it translated, uncensored, and you get access to all back issues), so I think the price is fair.

Netflix/Crunchyroll/Etc. is cheaper and offer more content
These are all services that have been around for years and they've had time to build up massive user bases and libraries. FAKKU's subscription service has been around for 3-4 months, and it's only been a few days since we really made the big change. By comparison, Crunchyroll did this back in 2009. It's the same reason we can't compete with Amazon when it comes to the price of shipping. It would be ideal, but it's impossible to have everything from day one.

There needs to be more payment methods
This is something we're constantly looking into, but with the risk of sounding like a broken record, this takes time. For some context, we've been in talks with PayPal since before the subscription service launched in September, and we finally came to a conclusion a few weeks ago. I wish it was just a matter of approaching a company and getting a quick yes or no, but that's sadly not the case. Once again, the us working with adult content and our commitment to not censor any content complicates things.

I want an alternative to subscribing for the magazine content
The first thing we will look into is allowing users to buy individual issues of a magazine. Nothing is decided right now, but if we can do this, it would most likely be very similar to buying a book from us. Right now, it seems unlikely we would offer users to subscribe to certain artists, tags, or buy individual chapters.

Its been a fun run Fakku. I shall bid you a bitter goodbye, for although you were the best, there are still many a free Hentai site online.

(Context) I would never pay for a Fakku subscription. I mean, its expensive and kind of pointless. I would usually lurk on this site and if i found an interesting hentai (which was often) Id go out and buy it to support the author. Understandable that most dont do this but to basically cut off a vast majority of your users I think is crazy!

Either way, this is not done out of hate... just, If i cant access the content the site is basically useless to me. I wish you luck in the future! No need to reply, as this will be the last time I log on~ Its been fun.

I keep noticing a misconception popping up - Fakku didn't remove all the "free" content b/c they wanted to, they did it b/c they had to! As Jacob has has written about before, they had a choice of either being shut down or trying to go legit - they bet on the latter and fortunately it's worked out for them.

But in order to survive and grow the business, they have to try and secure more publishing deals, which is really hard to do when you're pirating said publisher's content (shows how much of a hail mary the Wani deal was).

I know I sound like an apologist (and hell, maybe I am), but I think if they wanted to try and keep the pirated stuff, Fakku had 2 choices - either wait to get sued and shutdown, or curate themselves into obscurity via DMCA take down notices.

Netflix actually had a very high price when they started their streaming service. It was something like $20 $17.99 for 18 hours of streaming.

A good decision made in a bad moment. you don't have enough content.
I give you two months to bring back stuff like ShindoL, Yamatogawa, Shiwasu no okina licenced. After that time, i'll bid you farewell and you will lose yet another customer (I was a subscriber).
I also want to tell you i am VERY disappointed with you guys. I used to read the free mangas and that made my love for Fakku! grow. in fact, that is the reason why i became a subscriber. This decision feels like a spit on my face.

The misconception keeps popping up because most of those complaining don't bother to read what's actually going on, ie 'Jacob is selling out!!!!'.

We have yet to make any deals with other publishers outside of Wani, so unless Yamatogawa and Shiwasu no okina are Wani artists, it's unlikely they will appear on our site in the time-frame you have demanded.

ShindoL we however are trying to work a deal with. But even if we don't get him back, we encourage you to go directly to him if you want to read his work. He's actually from Queens, New York, and is very much aware of the piracy of his work in the West.

I was thinking about subscribing, but then the tags I liked went away. So no thank you. I will be leaving this site for good unfortunately.