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MaryFord Why do i think the novels have segragated pricing? It's for the frog in boiling water effect. As a novel is released, it starts free, then transitions into adwall and finally goes into full premium if it is popular enough. So it's just a way to warm the water slowly while hoping the frogs(readers) get used to it. Some will for sure get used to it or not care as they have heat shields(too much money to care), but most of the frogs who don't have heat shields atleast have a human brain to protect them, so i don't think it will be that effective and they will jump out before the water boils...

Dont fight here just get out from here. Let webnovel die and another translator group take the project

They want you to read for free, it's not like they would made the free stones timed or somethin-......oh wait

N0xiety most of the frogs who don't have heat shields atleast have a human brain to protect them

Don't be ridiculous, a human brain would not fit in a frog

Millman97
yeah it will not fit but your brain fit in frog

Disperson the spirit stones are too expensive I will only pay that amount for a whole book, not a few chapters

N0xiety touché

Serioisn't now they just took 3 more novels from gravity tales. I just hate it how the translators were like we want you to enjoy the novel with us. And now. MONEMONEYMONEY. I just realised that how much money reigns the world. Man even YouTube is for free. And the creators of those contents don't want money directly from the viewers. That just shows how grown up this website is. It just makes me sad.

Icegoast took :thinking:

AuxiliralyMAx I did know this. That's why u rarely ever see any adaptions from these web novels.

DeJeL yeah using the free ss I stick with true world martial and swallowed star

Millman97 fine they transfered. Happy????

It's silly that they have not said anything about it, bug or intended. They could make a lot more money from a lot of people if they just added a way to view a bunch of adds for ss, lots of people could just run it in the background. Plus twice I actually tried paying for SS didn't work cause this site produced an error so oh well for them.

I just read a thing on the app: now daily won ss expired after 30 days instead of 120... QI is evil !!!!

Morning_dew Same for me, I only read one premium novel on webnovel for all my other novels, I was see elsewhere.

They already have regional prices on the app. In the UK if you buy in app you have to pay £9.99 for something that costs $9.99 on the website. £9.99 is $12.90

Let's boycott this app on play store maybe this might get their attention , we need to show them power of free readers ,those who agree please like and share this

SCARLETT_FEVER how would we boycott it?

Disperson by deleting the app and rating it 1 star I guess

Disperson yeah this sucks ass

MaryFord If your logic was true, Steam would have long gone under...

If you have a login via the app, You can also login and buy via the web in which you use paypal. Its hard to tell which one is more cheaper buy for 9.99 USD i can get 500 + 100 bonus SS. How does that equate to buying via the app?

Marshala Same, just Webnovel need to pay 30% fee to Google or Apple. This is why you couldn't buy Amazon product with Google Play or Apple App Store. Apple and Google didn't allow double pricing between their website and the iAP.

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Icegoast21 hours ago
Millman97 fine they transfered. Happy????

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StandingInFire21 hours ago
It's silly that they have not said anything about it, bug or intended. They could make a lot more money from a lot of people if they just added a way to view a bunch of adds for ss, lots of people could just run it in the background. Plus twice I actually tried paying for SS didn't work cause this site produced an error so oh well for them.

kulmai21 hours ago
I just read a thing on the app: now daily won ss expired after 30 days instead of 120... QI is evil !!!!

Brian10120 hours ago
MikiG As a American who has bought SS I second MikiG. I currently have over 700 SS but it seems it is time to say goodbye.

Zencasra18 hours ago
Morning_dew Same for me, I only read one premium novel on webnovel for all my other novels, I was see elsewhere.

LastEmailDeleted18 hours ago
They already have regional prices on the app. In the UK if you buy in app you have to pay £9.99 for something that costs $9.99 on the website. £9.99 is $12.90

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akuma0617 hours ago
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Same here, I've bought SS to read some novels because I knew that other novels will have free daily chapters. For example, I often start a new novel with a bunch of premium chapter (at least a hundred), I will pay SS to get to latest released chapter, then I will stop reading it (at the end of a mini arc) until a certain number of premium chapters has been released; in the meantime I'll read some other novels with free chapters or adwall or premium (but by using my free SS). Then when the previous novel has again enough released chapters, I buy them. However, if there is no free daily premium, it means that I would have to pay each chapter released since I stopped reading. Therefore, even if at some point I want to stop reading the novel for a year, no free chapters would have been released and I would have to pay a huge amount of money to get to the last chapter.
I'm sorry but I would never pay something like that, I would rather stop reading or finding an alternative :wink:

akuma0617 hours ago
LastEmailDeleted If this is a joke, it is a funny one. Regional prices doesn't work like that. Money exchange rate do not take into account Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)...

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MaryFord16 hours ago
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N0xiety so why are you for regional pricing if you understand this?

Regional pricing will just discourage people from affluent nations to pay more because the benefit is less. That is because the system in place gives a difference in benefits based on the # of ss that a user has.

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SCARLETT_FEVER16 hours ago
Let's boycott this app on play store maybe this might get their attention , we need to show them power of free readers ,those who agree please like and share this

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Disperson15 hours ago
SCARLETT_FEVER how would we boycott it?

Iod15 hours ago
Disperson by deleting the app and rating it 1 star I guess

Taheiro14 hours ago
Disperson yeah this sucks ass

Disperson They've stopped releases free chapters for premiuim novel and didn't say anything for the past 5 days. This is obviously to make us pay ss, which we obviously cannot afford. I suggest everybody to rate the app 1 star. If they don't fix their shit, I'm out and going to gravity tales.
N0xiety14 hours ago
MaryFord If your logic was true, Steam would have long gone under...

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Marshala2 hours ago
If you have a login via the app, You can also login and buy via the web in which you use paypal. Its hard to tell which one is more cheaper buy for 9.99 USD i can get 500 + 100 bonus SS. How does that equate to buying via the app?

MasterRabbink13 minutes ago
Marshala Same, just Webnovel need to pay 30% fee to Google or Apple. This is why you couldn't buy Amazon product with Google Play or Apple App Store. Apple and Google didn't allow double pricing between their website and the iAP.

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N0xiety you know that digital games are different from digital books, right?

Boycott!

LastEmailDeleted That's because of the Play Store & App Store. It's not Webnovel making the effort to use regional prices or something.

kulmai actually I think that the daily SS 30 day expire has been going on for quite some time now. I think from the start of this year? it's deffinitely not something new. I know I didnt notice the change and the site and app didn't even show you correct number of stones that expired each day so ppl kept loosing stones. (BTW I dont like it either)

Morgana_lefay I believe it was shown. Check here in your profile.

https://www.webnovel.com/bill/spirit

cordon majority of us don't...
The ones who spend are like 10% of the total readers( That's the estimate I made from reading other comments in other posts also).
So QI is going for that 10% and totally neglecting the 90% of the readers....

Funnily enough, the translators always try to have the higher morale ground; to support the author etc.
Succh bullshit, I tell you. We don't know whether the money truly goes to their pockets or straight to QI (translators). For all I know, the authors are only paid the money according to contract and not getting any cut from our SS because the contract they signed back then didn't include international readers.

h3national We don't know whether the money truly goes to their pockets or straight to QI (translators). For all I know, the authors are only paid the money according to contract and not getting any cut from our SS because the contract they signed back then didn't include international readers.

Yep. Nobody knew. However, you could read Qidian's financial statement. As a public company like Google and Apple, they had to report their income. Webnovel as a child company usually would also be reported. Including in the report perhaps the amount 'paid' to the authors. If they didn't pay the author, there would be complaint.

However, similar to Apple, Google, and Amazon, the transparency is hard. We don't know the 'algorithm' and the detail. Actually I believe you don't care. Only the author and translator would care. (There is one who quit Webnovel, because he lost his Patreon and didn't believe in Qidian calculation. However, some are still in here.)

People, including me only care their 'free' thing turned paid.

A contracted author had already got the payment. I also don't think Qidian would dare not to pay some Chinese authors because of Webnovel's income, they would lose authors if they did that.

Based on I read, giving free chapters already making some complaints from the authors from China. This things happened then.

PS: I think only few fans-translator shared Patreon with original authors. So they have never tried that morale ground.

SS should just be a way to donate, not force us to pay. If we like the story just let us decide if we want to donate SS and not force us to pay to read the story we like. It is not our duty to pay someone who is writing a story because they want to, it should be an option.

What's wrong with money from adds?