It's on here for free. Lots of people are not going to buy it if it's on here for free. That's just the facts. When someone downloads a file of Kung Fu Panda 3 that someone videotaped in the cinema, they don't go see it in the cinema or buy it on DVD later. They saw it already.
Sure, some people might want to see it again in HD or will love it enough to buy it themselves, but at the end of the day the majority of the people who watched that pirated version aren't going out of their way to pay for it or they would have done so in the first place. Having english scans on here --at least when a work licensed in English-- is still hurting the artist, and most people you ask on yaoi forums and even people in comments on here say they don't buy the manga they read in Japanese either because they don't want to, don't have the money to or it's too hard for them to get their hands on. Someone earlier on was saying they didn't care if it was licensed at all and would wait as long as they had to for someone to scan it, translate it and put it up on here or another site.
Either way, clearly nothing I'm saying is sinking in and I don't have the energy to keep repeating the plain facts of human nature and the sales industry at you, so I'm just gonna check out of this conversation here. ╮(￣▽￣)╭
Catch ya on the flip side~
yeah prolly your community is small enough so you wont understand. even i just had the most annoying argument with someone i thought is fine not buying the manga and reading it for free but they said they wont buy a book they dont understand in language but okay in buying the english copy
maybe its just your community to small so you think that not much people will buy the english copies, even more people disagree aka downvotes you. byebye tho pointless commenting to your small community based logic xx
Frankly, I'm all for translators uploading works that aren't licensed and are never going to be officially translated since, lets be honest, anybody who doesn't understand Japanese wouldn't have ever bought those books in the first place.
But uploading a licensed work that's going to be available in English for online purchase or in bookstores is when it's really just wrong and it's not fair to the artists, editors, and huge companies that put so much effort into those works. If you're not willing to support it when it's made available for you to, then you don't deserve to read it and shame on translators who are aiding people in killing the English release of this series.