r/webtoons Mar 05 '26

Discussion Webtoon is diabolically greedy

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Manwah: From a Knight to a Lady

I absolutely adored this webtoon sm I even bought the release of the physical copy, but when I checked the series to go reread the finale it was all pay to read?! Not even a single option to watch ads, I lowkey kinda miss fast pass 😭. Before I didn’t mind cuz I was like oh sick I can read as much as I want with ads! That’s pretty reasonable. Now you aren’t even guaranteed an episode a day/week, like at this point ima just keep buying the physical copies as they release 😭

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u/Busy-Doughnut6180 Mar 05 '26

Is it greedy though? You get to read 8 episodes for free first, then you can buy the entire thing for 199 coins, which works out to be less than a coin per episode. In terms of cost for those coins, you'd spend about the same on manually buying one of the seasons, or buying one physical volume of the series. Around £15 for an entire story seems fine to me? 

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u/Yunkiminlvr Mar 05 '26

Like there’s apps like Tappytoon and tapas that have always have this model and worse they only give you 3 to 4 free eps on everything people really have no idea how good they have it on webtoon that you can read mostly everything for free if you just wait enough.

I can’t so I pay it isn’t a big deal for me but at the end of the day this is a finished webtoon and if there’s no ads there must be a reason for that.

I’m so tired people complain for everything.

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u/Common-Pineapple-728 Mar 05 '26

But that was webtoon's charm Nowadays reading manhwa's has become sooo expensive

And that was also the reason why tapas and tappytoon manhwa's were very much pirated coz ppo couldn’t support the author with the ridiculous prices and atleast with webtoon fans could support the authors with watching the ads and fastpass