Tappytoon Math Fun
moonblook replied to your post: Oh my god...Felix, you absolute idiot XD
where can I read this bc the coin system in tappytoons is REALLY expensive
Hello!
I know it’s not going to be the answer you’re looking for, but I will only ever offer Tappytoon as a source for the comic. The pricing might look expensive, but I’ve done the math when I’ve had this conversation with others and it’s really not. Let’s say you go ahead and buy the largest amount of tokens you can at a time, which puts them at their cheapest value. This is the $19.99 bundle. It gives you 212 tokens and 1700 points (or approximately 15 more tokens for what it allows you to unlock.) So you have 227 tokens. Each chapter generally costs 3 to unlock with the site occasionally offering deals when you unlock more at once. That means for your $19.99 you can get about 76 chapters at the approximate price of 26 cents each. If you’re interested in solely purchasing Who Made Me a Princess, it only has 43 chapters at the moment. $19.99 will buy you the entire story while leaving you enough to unlock almost double what’s currently available. Since one chapter is released a week, you’ll be good for a little over 8 months before you have to purchase more tokens. If you buy the $19.99 again, you’ll be set for over a year and a half. I don’t think that’s bad at all. (If you can resist buying other stories ;) They have a lot of good ones.)
Another way to look at it is this: each chapter on Tappytoon is arguably comparable to the amount of content you get in a manga chapter, especially when considering this content is also colored. One manga volume generally contains 9-10 chapters and varies from $7.95 to $10.95 in most cases. At the aforementioned approximated 26 cents per chapter, 10 chapters costs you a mere $2.60. If the argument is put forth that a Tappytoon chapter is not equal to a manga chapter, doubling the amount of Tappytoon chapters certainly puts it there while still only costing $5.20. That’s a fine number that remains below what you’d have to pay to buy the comic in a more mainstream manga format.
Math rant over.
The other point with this I’ll put more succinctly is that I also have a firm belief in supporting the writers, artists, translators, and other workers for what they provide. It might come off harsh, and this is by no means addressed directly to you as it is simply my way of thinking, but I don’t believe if a person is unable to afford a work they are granted an excusable permission to access that work through illegal and unofficial means. That’s why the content I post here I try to limit to not reveal the heart or core of the story or I place my review/commentary upon so it comes within the confines of Fair Use. I say all this from a position of someone who creates content and who also doesn’t have much money herself.
Thank you for reading. Random out.
