[Locked] FAKKU State of the Union 2016

I did explain the reason why I replied to that specific post on my previous post which I'm assuming you've read. I agree that those one time posters saying "fuck you fakku" are immature. The issue I saw with that specific post and some other users is that, based on my interpretation, they were generalizing and saying that people that had an issue with the price are just kids, lazy, unemployed, entitled, losers and the list goes on. Apparently at least as far as the poster I quoted is concerned I was wrong and that's great. He was not at all being unsympathetic to those who are trying to come up with ways to support fakku despite financial problems he was mearly expressing his frustration to all of those one time posters who came out of the woodwork just to say "Fuck you fakku, x is a better site anyway".


You don't. I wasn't demanding I was asking because you said my interpretation of your post was incorrect and I can't see how it was.


I don't understand what you mean by this at all. But that's ok.

This is the summation.



I have no problems. Just don't be so quick to assume yourself that we aren't sympathetic to those who want options, because I certainly am sympathetic to the 20%.

But we're talking about people who want to pay for stuff here. Not the ones who think they should get it for free. They are doing their best to suggest ways so they can afford content.


Are you suggesting that people choose to not be able to afford a $13/month product. It's not as simple as doing "something about your life". If it was there wouldn't be nearly as much poverty in the world.

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The reason I call out things like this is not because I want to be a contrarian. I care about Fakku and I want it to succeed in what is currently doing and I believe customers talking down to other customers and potential customers or downright being rude hurts the company image even if you are not a representative of that company. Some people might be turned off by an aggressive community.
So if you truly care about fakku I think you're better off politely correcting misinformation and being sympathetic to anyone posting on the forum. At least give people the benefit of the doubt, assume that the ones who are not downright saying they just want to pirate are willing to pay for a product.
If fakku didn't give its community the benefit of the doubt and if Wani didn't give fakku the benefit of the doubt we wouldn't have any of this right now you know.

I think that some people simply cannot understand that not everyone lives in a country where you earn in dollars, or in a currency that is relatively equal to a dollar. Some of us live in places that make us earn shit compared to the US, Canada or any other rich country. Just because for someone 13$/m is not much doesn't mean that for somebody else it's not a fortune. For me, it's more than a day of work - and I also need to take into account that I need to eat, pay for other stuff etc. it's pretty hard to justify paying over 13$/m for something I use only once in a while.

you are missing the point - people are not able to afford despite working normally, because of the exchange rate! it's not the point of wanting to pirate, it's a point of not being able to afford to pay 13$/m for something that is empty. besides, you're being very condescending - you are not in those people's shoes, and you think it still gives you the right to act as if they're inferior to you. get a grip, man. see the bigger picture, because right now you seem to be stuck up in your own world, not giving a second thought about someone that is not you.

It's not really the exchange rate, but the cost of living. 1$ is still 1$ but if your monthly income is 60$ a month it doesn't really matter if the dollar is 30dong or peso or yuan or chickens. Or more funnier... 100,000,000,000 Zimbabwe dollars.

Not sure why you're trying to argue the merits of the service with me. I like it, I think it's great. I was part of the beta subscription and the only reason I'm not really subscribed right now is because I don't have as much time lately so a subscription service is not worth it for me at the moment.
But we're talking about me or the quality of the service we're talking about customers who seem willing to support the site despite financial trouble and the suggestions they're making.
Some want cheaper so they can afford it. Fakku staff has said at this point is not exactly possible because of the huge overhead of fees that come with being a porn provider. Some people are not even asking to pay less they're suggesting a tier system so they can still pay and help fakku and the artists with their limited budget. I don't think we should be rude to those people, or anyone for that matter.


Not only you're expecting the worse from people you're also taking a antagonistic approach to them. Even if all those people complaining could will themselves out of whatever financial bind they find themselves do you expect them to come back after being treated like that?
Why not just give people the benefit of the doubt? Argue points instead of preaching.

I agree with Rage - for example, Netflix, which has also started from nothing, now offers a price of 10$/m, if I'm correct. and that's in the US.

Fun fact, I just checked - the Netflix price for my country is equivalent to 8,6$/m - not exactly super cheap, but on a whole different level than Fakku's 12,95$/m, especially since I'm getting high-quality stuff that I can spend hours and hours of time watching for 8,6%m VS one doujin per day (usually), which I can read in about 3 mins, for 12,95$/m.

not only that, the problem is in the Japanese market not being interested enough in overseas media outlets - not matter what you do, if they do not want to cooperate, you lose.

Netflix wasn't always that cheap, or with a lot of content at the beginning.
But yeah, I get your point.

It's not the japanese fault if no one is wanting to buy the licensed, porting, translating the media. That why some stuff never gets ported to your gaming device/translated and stream or bd/dvd or printed soon or ever. Not everything here gets translated and sold to japan or china or europe.

Some countries will go further than that and charge you extra by just making a purchase with other currency. And there's also credit card companies that use their own exchange rate which is 5%-10% higher than the actual currency which is already high enough.

That how it worked since the beginning of currency exchange since roman times. Even if you go to the exchange in the airport or bank they charge a fee since they have to make something to offer the exchange. Hell you can't buy yen lower than 10,000 or 100,000 note outside japan a lot of time. That mostly because the japanese use cards and their coins are the base of alot of transactions. the notes are expensive. 10,000 is a 100 last time i tried to get the exchange. Yen was 100 to 1 last time i was in tokyo.

Credit card companies are already making money with their own fees, so they're slightly different than actual exchange companies. The fee I'm talking about in my country didn't exist at all until 2 years ago.

Yeah, though some of those offering suggestions don't seem to have read the reasoning behind the pricing either. Adult content automatically makes it more costly when it comes to fees, so comparing it to Netflix or Crunchy Roll isn't quite fair. We also don't know what their licensing fees are, or the amount of labor that it takes to prepare each page, but it's probably more than we think.

I know they didn't pull that price out of nowhere, they figured out what their costs were and left room for some profit, but people are making random suggestions as if they know Fakku's finances better than they do. Now of course all that assumes that you trust what Jacob and his team are telling us (I do, haven't seen any reason to doubt them yet).