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  • Why is webnovel locking up previously free chapters?

It seems that the advertising payment model is not making enough for webnovel to be satisfied... however, a subscription model also won’t work as the price they want seems to exceed a hardcopy professionally published novel in stores ... who would pay so much for work-in-progress novels that may stop without a satisfying conclusion? Not sure what they want readers to do but I’ll be dropping the app if this trend continues.

brynch "a valiant life" is the one i read yesterday, i thought that they have new chapter but when i downloaded it they lock the chapter that i already read

    The interesting thing is how you need to watch an ad to unlock a chapter... and then, the next day, it is locked because it's premium now. You now have the premium option buy everything again and get twice as much enjoyment from the same content.
    I don't actually mind if they lock 80% of the chapters, but they shouldn't lock again stuff that is already "paid" for.
    And yes, QI surely got money for that ad, and they promised a chapter for it.
    What's next? Unlocking stuff for 24h only? Chapters for rent?

    brynch I know you weren't asking me, but I had to reply with my own.
    -The King's Avatar
    -Release That Witch
    -MMORPG: The Martial Gamer
    just to name a few that I read for free now being locked behind premium. Geez, I get caught up with real life problems, leave this site for 3 months, and all of a sudden, nearly all of the novels I followed have gone premium, leaving me unable to even reread older chapters, let alone new ones...

        I get that they need to make money. But the way they are charging it doesn’t make sense. It’ll cost like over USD100 to pay for 700-800 chapters...and if I’m following multiple stories than that really doesn’t make sense. I’ll never pay under the current model.

        Why not just make it a monthly subscription model... I don’t mind pay USD5, or even 10 a month for unlimited reading.

          I have same problem.. chapter I have unlocked be lock again..

          The empresses Gigglio also got locked at around chapter 202. It already had an adwall from basically the beginning... Why did they have to put the paywall so close to the beginning, I mean compared to Release That Witch and other stories, they got their paywall ages away, prob around chapter ~600. Just depressing...

            In my case they lock chapters that I already paid with SS because they did not have the add option. So I use money to buy the SS and then the chapter that was locked and after a month they locked it again? How does that work?

              kzat4 I have to agree on this one. I do not mind paying at all, I already paid a bit to keep up with some ongoing novels. However there are some novels that are already finished or that have 500+ locked chapters that get to a ridiculous amount of money so I simply do not read those.

              Those novels happen to be ones I would definitely give a try and read if they were 10 or 20 bucks but instead I end up simply not spending on those at all because the cost is too staggering.

              If there would only be an option to pay a certain amount for a novel to be able to read all current and future chapters for 1 set reasonable price.

              Or even better.. paying like 500 bucks to read an unlimited amount of novels for a lifetime. I would definitely jump on that one as I spend hours reading every day, it would pay for itself in no time.

                  that is very true

                    I too have unocked chapters by paying, then come back to see they are locked again. Reading neet with a dating sim. I have no problem paying, but not twice. The free online versions are only minorly annoying to read, so if I’m to be extorted for stuff I already paid for I have no issues following that route.

                    And if this site is truly not listening to us and fixing things, then it is time to move on.

                    pokeperson1000 quick question did you read via pc or phone app, as I read TKA and RTW via pc and everything is still unlocked fully for me from Chapter 1 upwards on both and I used ad's before to unlock stuff before it became premium
                    I'm asking this as I only bother using the app each day to watch the video for the stones

                        I have previous discussion like this BUT CKTALON LOCK my thread.............

                        This Thread will be lock as they don't like this type of thread...............

                          so many people are having this problem...can i use kidney stone to replace SS...i already unlocked twice those chapter that have been locked back and running out of SS...seriously im gonna use my kidney stone for the new release chapter...

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