The Earned "Free" Tapas Coin Discussion

@GoldenPlume Golden Plume Comics
Sat, 06 Aug 2016 00:21:17 +0000

@GoldenPlume wrote:

Considering that the "coin shop" sells 5,000 coins for $4.99 USD, it stands to reason that 10 coins equal $.01 USD. So a creator would have to receive 1,000 donated coins to get $1 USD. This might not sound like much, but for creators with 80,000 subs, should each subscriber give them 100 coins, that's 8,000,000 coins or $8,000. Not so shabby, for a tabby.

So yes, watching ads gives you 1.2 cents a pop to spend however you wish. Remember, Tapas has an invisible fee going on as well, likely .8 cents, in order to recover the cost of all the resources that went into making this happen. So watching an ad benefits Tapas in order that they can grow and do even more things for creators down the road, perhaps stuff like LINE Webtoons is doing like paying featured comics or supporting Patreons. Plus you get some "coin power" to wield on the comics you like best.

Everyone should realize that it makes perfect sense to participate in this at least some. If there's a poor turn out of ad watchers, Tapas won't recover their resource investment into this feature and will be less likely to do something more for creators in the future. This is called negative reinforcement. Its the start of a negative cycle in which Tapas stops doing new features because they lose money on making them, so Tapas starts to stagnate, so creators start to leave, so the site starts to shrink, so Tapas reduces even more features because they don't have enough participants to support them.

However if everyone participates, Tapas quickly recovers their investment and so plows the money into another new feature, which in turn makes the site even more popular with creators, so even more creators come, even more comics, so even more readers, and the site continues to grow and grow. Eventually some creator comes up with that PERFECT VIRAL webcomic and kablooey, suddenly TONS of new readers for EVERYONE as Tapastic is inundated with new readers who spill out from PERFECT VIRAL into other series.

Help yourself. Help your Friendly Neighborhood Gryphon Rider. Watch ads. Everyone wins.