RozenLetter wrote...
Alright lets break this down a bit. Firstly going by just the Fakku store's top selling books of all time the top 10 are from 5 years ago more or less correct? Good then going by that no books since then have sold nearly that much, which leads me to believe since then you and your team have not gotten any books that could sell that much, even if you tell me that not much time has passed to justify this, this tells me that no book so far has sold as well as Pandemonium which is a bad sign when you try to run a business which needs to make money.
I feel like this argument is invalid when you consider that many of the top selling books are from 2016 they have had a much longer shelf life than any of the newer books. When you factor in that Fakku's user base and how they are constantly growing it wouldn't be surprising to see these books still selling. All this means is that new people are buying books. Maybe books from 2018 don't have as many sales as books from 2016, there are numerous factors as to why this may be. Some people may have just stopped buying books, every website has several dead accounts and its no surprise that maybe some of the user base that bought Pandemonium isn't around or aware of the latest books to hit the site. There is also the fact that not everyone can buy every book. For me there are tons of books new and old that i want to get, but I cant just throw down the money every time they announce a new book especially when I joined this joined this site much later and have a larger back log to go through. I'm sure its like this for many of the new users, and when they go and start buying books they might go with their tastes or maybe they might just go with the best sellers since they are the best sellers (The
They must be great if they sold a lot mentality). You see this a lot even with the piracy sites, People rarely sort by new and instead go with whats popular.
I'm unsure if what I'm getting at makes any sense or not so I'm just gonna end my point on that subject there.
As for derailment of announcement threads I frankly find it toxic and think that people should complain somewhere else. Perhaps incoherent babbling or random is the place for such complaints. I think its sad how when we should be celebrating getting a new release, the thread is instead relegated to arguments over whether or not we should be "
disappointed" with Fakku or not. Considering all those at Fakku who go into the forums and interact with the community to outreach to us all for feedback, the constant shit they get with people saying they are disappointed in Fakku, or complain about a release that they are not particularly interested in must be very disheartening and bad for over all moral. They do not need to put up with it and am glad you all are addressing it. I am thankful for any and all releases and am glad we even get to voice our opinions on which books we get. Y'all didn't need to give us a poll to decide which books to release but you did anyways and that's awesome.
There is also the artists themselves who every so often come on Fakku and lurk around thanking those who purchase their books. Some speak English and some might not, but if they came onto the forums to check out the excitement for their books, I don't really think its fair to them to hear people complain about how this isn't what they wanted.
Overall I think Fakku has done a wonderful job bringing over all kinds of ero-manga to the west and this year so far alone has been in my opinion one of their biggest and best yet and we aren't even half way through it. I cant possibly keep up with them all, but I'm still happy to see so many amazing announcements and releases. I cant wait to see how the rest of the year plays out. Keep up the good work!