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Post by coke & comics on May 25, 2016 8:11:07 GMT -5
And the more I'm looking at it...the more limited it is. It's really more of a sampler thing. A few issues here and there...an early arc. Probably not deep enough to be worth it to me. I'm hoping it will grow over time. Netflix instant started out basically with random junk and public domain stuff and grew from their as they acquired more and more licenses. |
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Post by Randle-El on May 25, 2016 9:53:47 GMT -5
I think Marvel Unlimited is actually perfect for people who have a low commitment level to Marvel books, but still want to follow it to a small degree. As MRP pointed out, it breaks down to less than $6 a month. If you only read two current release books, you've already gotten more than your money's worth. In fact, that's pretty much the reason why I subscribed to it. While I don't like Marvel's current output as a whole, there are books here and there that I enjoy or want to at least check out. MU lets me do that at a reasonable price, and if I don't end up passionately liking the books, there's no downside of piles of physical copies that I have to store or sell off. Heck, maybe you just like Spider-Man and want to keep up with his adventures. Amazing Spider-Man double ships at $3.99 a copy. At retail, you'd have to pay $8 a month (give or take pull list discounts, taxes, etc) just to read ASM instead of $6 a month for MU.
I still buy physical comics these days, but it's mostly for creator-owned books, older newsprint-era books, or collected editions of stories that I particularly want to keep.
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Post by hondobrode on May 25, 2016 21:43:31 GMT -5
I've thought about it more today, and I'm pulling the trigger on Unlimited.
Sure I've already got more that I can read, but there's still gold in there I haven't read yet, and I like the idea.
Honestly, there's so much prime material not coming from the Big Two right now that I could go without reading from either of them and be happy with all the "indies".
I say that and I'm downloading Rebirth # 1 after this, but still, IF the Big Two didn't exist, which will never happen, there are truckloads of good material from the featured publishers here.
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Post by hondobrode on May 26, 2016 21:05:48 GMT -5
BTW, FWIW, your Unlimited subscription includes 50 downloads / month.
That comes out to 12 cents an issue.
Just saying
It's good for not only trying out new series, but plugging some holes in.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 26, 2016 21:30:02 GMT -5
BTW, FWIW, your Unlimited subscription includes 50 downloads / month. That comes out to 12 cents an issue. Just saying It's good for not only trying out new series, but plugging some holes in. Unlimited is limited to 50 downloads?  |
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Post by Randle-El on May 26, 2016 21:41:03 GMT -5
BTW, FWIW, your Unlimited subscription includes 50 downloads / month. That comes out to 12 cents an issue. Just saying It's good for not only trying out new series, but plugging some holes in. I think that just means that you're allowed to download and store 50 comics onto your device to read offline. You can read as many comics you want if you stream them while connected to the web. And I could be wrong on this, but I don't you can keep those books. I.e., if you downloaded 50 books, you can't download more unless you delete some that you already have. The purpose of this feature is to let people have limited access to the service while they are offline, e.g. on an airplane. |
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2016 21:47:31 GMT -5
BTW, FWIW, your Unlimited subscription includes 50 downloads / month. That comes out to 12 cents an issue. Just saying It's good for not only trying out new series, but plugging some holes in. I think that just means that you're allowed to download and store 50 comics onto your device to read offline. You can read as many comics you want if you stream them while connected to the web. And I could be wrong on this, but I don't you can keep those books. I.e., if you downloaded 50 books, you can't download more unless you delete some that you already have. The purpose of this feature is to let people have limited access to the service while they are offline, e.g. on an airplane. I think Marvel Unlimited only lets you download 5 to read offline with the standard sub, don't know if its more with their super deluxe bells and whistles sub. -M |
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Post by hondobrode on May 26, 2016 21:48:20 GMT -5
I'm testing it to see.
While online you can read as many as you like, but, what I read very specifically in the interview with the CEO said 50 / month.
That means download.
We'll see in a month if that issue I downloaded is still there.
CORRECTION : It says 50 issue download limit, nothing in there about 50 per month.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 26, 2016 21:54:40 GMT -5
*Whew*.
I might subscribe , but I just have too many actual comics that I still have to read.
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Post by hondobrode on May 26, 2016 21:58:10 GMT -5
CORRECTION : It says 50 issue download limit, nothing in there about 50 per month.
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Post by Randle-El on May 26, 2016 22:04:50 GMT -5
I think that just means that you're allowed to download and store 50 comics onto your device to read offline. You can read as many comics you want if you stream them while connected to the web. And I could be wrong on this, but I don't you can keep those books. I.e., if you downloaded 50 books, you can't download more unless you delete some that you already have. The purpose of this feature is to let people have limited access to the service while they are offline, e.g. on an airplane. I think Marvel Unlimited only lets you download 5 to read offline with the standard sub, don't know if its more with their super deluxe bells and whistles sub. -M I think hondobrode was referring to Comixology Unlimited, not Marvel Unlimited. You'd think their marketing departments would want to differentiate their services from each other... |
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2016 22:51:56 GMT -5
I think Marvel Unlimited only lets you download 5 to read offline with the standard sub, don't know if its more with their super deluxe bells and whistles sub. -M I think hondobrode was referring to Comixology Unlimited, not Marvel Unlimited. You'd think their marketing departments would want to differentiate their services from each other... I know he was, I was offering a comparison, ICC seemed to think 50 was a small number, I pointed out Marvel to show it was a lot compared to what Marvel allowed for downloads for off-line reading. -M |
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Post by Icctrombone on May 27, 2016 5:56:05 GMT -5
I think hondobrode was referring to Comixology Unlimited, not Marvel Unlimited. You'd think their marketing departments would want to differentiate their services from each other... I know he was, I was offering a comparison, ICC seemed to think 50 was a small number, I pointed out Marvel to show it was a lot compared to what Marvel allowed for downloads for off-line reading. -M I made a mistake when I read it. I thought it meant you could only READ 50 per month. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on May 29, 2016 11:12:56 GMT -5
I might check this out, I really like Marvel Unlimited but if it's limited to just small tastes of runs I don't think its for me.
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Post by hondobrode on May 29, 2016 16:07:58 GMT -5
There are some decent arcs, but you're not going to get whole runs.
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