DramaBox - Stream Drama Shorts 12+

Really like the short episodes with the vertical format. I think this is a great way of showing little stories that doesn’t require a ton of like production and what not. The acting isn’t like what you’d see on like well known tv and things but it has its own charm that’s really nice.

That being said I think getting currency for free should be improved a little. I understand that making users watch ads to continue watching these mini stories is incentive to purchase the coins and i have no issue with that. But the problem is that when doing the things to receive free coins it is simply not enough. If you decided to watch 15 ads to get coins you’d only be rewarded with 30 coins which is enough for 6 episodes when most series have over 30 episodes. This doesn’t include how much time you’d spend to watch 15 ads. Because not only are the ads 30+ seconds long but you have 20 second wait times between each time you watch the ads. It takes too long and you get very little in return. I’m not saying just give out coins for free but making them a little easier and convenient acquire would be great.

Update: so there was an update and every video was five coins and five minutes was one coin 10 minutes was two coins 15 minutes 20 coins. It was pretty good today. I don’t know if it’s cause it’s April fools Day and this is just a fools joke, but they added a zeros to the back of everything and I’m just not a fan. I liked the low value understanding not having to do complicated math in order to know how many episodes I was gonna get. I liked that every episode was five coins. Now it’s 50 why we needed to add in a zero I have no idea.

I like the stories on this app as far as ad per play value they had really gone up in status. This was my go to app for dramas. I recommend it to anyone who likes to watch these dramas. I just hope they go back to the five and not the 50 cause then it feels like a lot and it’s stressful. I also wish that it was $10 a month and not $80.
-original-I’ve watched 10 ads so far today and you can’t exit out of the ad so therefore you can’t watch the next episode. $20 a week is really expensive. I honestly might subscribe if it was like $20 a month. The stories are good the acting is pretty decent, but I can watch IQIYA and get full 45 minute episodes for like $10 a month. Granted the stories are obviously a little more full and the drama is less but I’m writing this review hoping somebody will fix this ad error so I can finish the story that I’m already watching.

I would love to be able to have a lot more information available for each of the dramas. For instance - I wanna have a summary of what the drama is about. I would love to hear more about which actors were featured in each drama and other key roles such as producer and director. I think this would be a great way to be able to follow talent from their early days into more robust careers. Also, it would be easier to be able to follow people who’s content I enjoyed and find dramas that are more relevant to the genres I enjoy. For instance, there is no comedy genre on this app and I really enjoyed the shorts that are funny. Also, it seems like some of the dramas cut the scene short in ways that make the plot not track completely. I’ve seen them leave. Information that they been reference later in the short. Another thing that is annoying is that they don’t translate the written Mandarin very often. That means I have to screenshot the short and then copy the Mandarin from the photo over to Google translate to be able to figure out what the text says. It would also be cool if there was a way to rate the shorts.