[Locked] FAKKU State of the Union 2016

crap move, you could have saved the doujins of at least stuff based on anime and video games, and giving into the crap business model that Japan works with is absurd they've already put two good scan groups out and now your working with them? I tried the sub for a while and i'm not impressed most of it is just 20 something vanilla one-shots and the fact that i'm finding the subscription material on torrent sites means paying $9USD/month is pointless. I even have all the books for FREE thanks to torrents because someone uploads them and someone else puts them in a big package and updates it when a new book here comes out.

Dear people who work at Fakku,

I think your doing the right thing even though it hurts my wallet. I do ask for 3 things if you plan on charging money.

1. Please keep variety. I loved how many different tags you guys had. I loved switching between yuri to vanilla to bondage. Alot of my favorite content is gone but I hope you will bring it back soon.

2. Please make a perk for people who purchase your books. I personally would like every book to come with a small poster. Maybe an extra month to read subscription content for free. Also your books are great!

3. I hope eventually the cost of subscription could be $10.00 or less. I understand this might take a while. Also please consider giving people free subscription during the week or month of their b-day. Everyone should be able to masturbate on their b-day! !!

1. Hopefully this will happen.

2. Something like this was/is being discussed internally.

3. We are looking into other options for those that don't like the price and subscription model, such as single magazine purchases. The subscription price won't be lowered anytime soon though. We're also throwing ideas around for a free trial version of the subscription.

I don't mind this move by Fakku, heck I've been a subscriber since the subscription beta.

The only thing I have a problem with is like everyone else. The subscription price is still a little high. I think $9.99 is worth it. Especially since we are only getting only like 3 to 4 chapters a day. The releases seem a little slow to me. Second is there is little to no other content ATM other then Vanilla. I like Vanilla as much as anybody else but a variety of other genres would also be nice (Yes I'm looking mostly at you Fakku books and all your Vanilla releases!) Third is I hope we get to purchase or DL the magazine/Chapters and maybe a discount for current subscribers.

I hope my feedback gets read!

You know...

One thing I've noticed as I've been reading this entire thread is that the majority of people who are against the idea of FAKKU changing into what it is now don't realize that this is something that they literally were FORCED into doing. It's not like FAKKU wanted to alienate their free-user fanbase on purpose and create this new system to make more money. It was literally their only next step to go as a H-Manga website. (or maybe that was their intention.... I dunno, I'm not a big-wig in FAKKU, so who knows. Hahaha!)

It seems like people aren't aware that when a take down notice is handed to someone, it's either you heed the warnings, or you give up everything that you own, which is exactly what's happening here.

Killing their entire old content? Had to do it!

Moving their main choice of revenue from ad-base to subscription? Had to do it!

However, instead of just caving in and shutting down FAKKU for good, FAKKU made the ambitious move and has made a partnership that can possibly bring this whole thing to new heights. Will it be tough? Hell yeah it will be, but the question is, would you rather see FAKKU become non-existant, or at least see it try to exist in a different form? From someone who has viewed FAKKU for 7 years, I would much rather see the latter.

Stuff like this is never truly free. Someone has to put in the work for it somewhere, and if they aren't getting paid for it, what incentivizes them to continue doing more work? This has been the whole summation of the reason why the west has been seen in such a negative light from Japan's adult industry for as long as the west has been pirating their digital goods. FAKKU's new movement is a step in the right direction for being on better terms with Japan.

Of course, only time will tell if this new business plan succeeds or fails. While I have my own reasons for not subscribing at the moment to FAKKU (as I posted earlier in this thread), I, for one, hope it succeeds since FAKKU was my introduction to H-Manga.

A lot of people don't realize it that the stuff they fap to isn't free anyway. Just because it's "free" doesn't mean the person(s) that allowed you to see it got it for free as well. Someone out there had to pay someone(s) to get the smut, get it translated, typesetted, cleaned, etc etc and to your browser for your faps. But alas the ones that say,"why pay when I can get it here for free lolz", are too used to the old free norm and can't stand paying for something they didn't have to in the first place more than likely for a long long time in most of these cases.

Once upon a time 8 or 7 years ago I have somehow stumbled on Fakku and instantly liked it, 5 years ago I have created account to get access to forum to download original Touhou games to see what is this that everyone is creating hentai/fan-art about lol, my time never let me become anything more than lurker but I kept reading announcements and participated in polls. Today I'm still here and not going anywhere, there's no need to. :)

So far until I finish PCmasterracing myself I will keep buying books with leftover money but as soon as I finish I will subscribe and I hope monster girls will be there by then. :D

I will blame Fakku for spoiling me so much with pre-censored hentai that's I can't fap to black bars anymore. xD

My best wish for Fakku would be to start releasing hentai games, there's just so much great games on DLsite that could use English translation and de-censoring.

As for other matters,
All "greed/fuck you" people - you still didn't do your homework and you have maths test tomorrow which you didn't prepare for and your mom will be mad and take your pc when she discovers that you're watching drawn porn.

I'm severally disappointed with overall reading comprehension among posters, did you really finish elementary school?

Those suggesting ad based revenue - adblock renders it so low it's not possible to keep site alive just on that.

For fuck sake STOP comparing Fakku to Crunchyroll/Netflix, not because they're non-adult sites, not because they have way more material but because they're pile of shit if you're outside of USA.
CR will show me big middle finger and treat me as secondary customer not allowing me to view majority of content I'm supposedly paying for, of course defenders will instantly jump on saying that I should install proxy and will be able to watch everything fuck you, no, I'm not going to bend over and agree on being worse just because I live elsewhere.
Netflix is even worse here, it doesn't have any good movies be it new or old, only B class unknowns or worse and unknown telenovelas and everything is very sparse... but there goes top kek, they didn't even bother to add subtitles in my language, just pure laziness, what the fuck I'm paying for?
And here's Fakku, you get exactly what you're paying for regardless from where are you.

Now onto the real problem people see - the price. If your currency is most$, €, £, CHF or similar and you can't afford subscription then you have a problem in you life. :|
Those with less generous currencies definitely have a real problem, some won't be able to overcome it no matter what, buying on international sites is not for you unfortunately.
But others, do you really don't have that kind of money or are you so accustomed to buying garbage that you don't notice how much money you're actually spending?
Think how much of these you bought last month: cigarettes, alcohol, sweets, fast food, coffee, games that you will never play in your life, etc.
See how quickly this adds up? Are you sure that you still can't afford books/subscription?

If you're 18+ you can get your own debit or credit card, or even a reloadable one. What you're describing is an unusual circumstance.

Jacob, or any of the Fakku staff: can we get a better description of the type of modeling license? How open can you be about your business model and costs? While maybe not the exact amounts, I'd love to know if you are paying per user who views, or some flat amount monthly, or some other way of paying the licensing costs?

What are some additional costs that go into calculating the subscription amount? Perhaps with more information to the community we can provide more constructive suggestions.

One less site in my bookmarks, I don't have the money or desire to pay for subscriber status but I'm not gonna b*tch about this decision. There's plenty of other FREE ways to get the scans that have been removed.

Again, they just started. Did FAKKU have over thousands of free contents when this site was only, say, 7 months old? Of course not. It's only been a few months since FAKKU started out releasing these high quality uncensored materials. You're going to need to give it some time before you have enough contents to have some freedom of choice.

Even for someone like me who finds a lot of time to be around in the internet, I can't find the time to read even half of the releases they get out there, and I'm literally fine with most tags. I just happen to have so much else to do... I really can't imagine an adult complaining this much about a lack of content instead of being understanding of the situation.

Complainers that argue about the lack of content seriously do not understand that THIS just started up recently. I don't need to tell anyone about the obvious lack of content when someone or a business just began dishing out content in the beginning. Especially in terms of upcoming pornographic services. Did anyone here expect bangbros and brazzers to have all that content and extra websites in the beginning or any other popular porn subscription service websites for that matter?

It's like me complaining to a new comic book artist for not having as many releases as marvel/dc when they barely started releasing their own works. Most complainers also don't understand the meaning of patience, but of course I'm not surprised by that either since it's so easy to just type into google what you want anyway for faps so for something like FAKKU to go legit and get rid of its dangerous illegal backlog of content(as in other publisher's works that are not WANI'S) they would be sued to oblivion and some, so going legit and starting off fresh HAS to be done and that also means building up their content again.

Ultimately whether they're an adult or not doesn't always come with maturity. With a situation that can affect someone(s) livelihood when they're about to get sued by a huge publishing company. It is easy to just write it off as, "Not my problem I'm not the one about to get sued, but hey where are my faps though?" if all you care about is your faps. Well what if FAKKU did get sued? If this was the only place you ever came to get your faps in well too bad cause it would be gone.

I've only been a member since I turned 18, but I've frequented this site since year three, laughing, crying, and deleting my history nearly every day, and it was a lot of fun.

Unfortunately for me, I cannot become a subscriber due to monetary issues, but, even if I had the money, I would still wait to subscribe until more artists/groups were being published and more diverse content was uploaded frequently.

I've seen many people say that the content "quality" has gone down, but I beg to disagree.
The only thing that's gone down is the *quantity*, and I believe this decision is split right down the middle within the community on whether it's good or bad.
In my honest opinion, I believe you're doing the right thing, it just hasn't gotten far enough along to for others to see that yet.
On the flip-side, though, that announcement was like being a Final Fantasy character having Doom cast on me, as I knew I'd never be able to back-up all those manga that I loved, and had to face the reality that it'd all soon be gone, as FAKKU! was the only place I ever saw some of those pieces of art.

I've spoken my honest thoughts on the topic of FAKKU!Pay, but let me talk about why I stand in the middle ground on the topic of pay vs. pirate.

I know many people hate piracy, but scanlators can help less popular series in their home countries get the attention and recognition they deserve elsewhere, and can have fans petition for official translations that allow the author to keep making content they enjoy, as the majority will still buy the series when it's published in their native tongue.
Thinking about it, most scanlators even tell you to buy the author's work when it's available to you, so it's really more of a preview than anything.

There are fewer groups like FAKKU! than many people think, as many manga, manwa, or what have you, never leave their native home due to little popularity, yet scanlators allow them to be recognized for the works of art they are by people in other countries.

I just wanted to put my thoughts out there on this topic, as everyone knows that the world isn't black and white, it's every color in between, and every good thing has to have a bad side, while ever bad thing may have a good reason behind it.