I'm probably not the first guy to have this issue, but i am finding this site more and more obnoxious and unbearable to face with this greedy spirit stone system. And today i have had enough of it when i just noticed that for a week of daily reading, i only read 10 chapters because all the other 200 chapters are locked. Than i had this crazy idea to search online to find some random site with ALL those locked chapters. That why I'm leaving this greedy might i even say cancerous site.
I don't know if i can can convince anyone to leave this shitty loop, but if you see this post. Know there are other options...

Edit: some people here are getting the wrong point from my post, i don't mind paying for books to read. My problem is the greedeness level this site has. While some places (like ww) have a 20-30 locked chapters but chapters are released daily, for "premium" novels here. You get once or twice every week.

Tl:dr feel like this system is way to greedy price to content wise

    Mature choice would be to have the best of the 2 worlds and just quietly mind your own business though

    If this site goes under due to not getting enough profit you would lose the novels anyway

      yu_ba_bu_neng is right

      KrampusHD

      And to that: Yes we pay for the chaps but the money dosnt go only to qidian. I dont know how exactly is it split but we support the authors too. Yes of course i dosnt want to lose money i mean who want to lose his money? BUT you buy books to, or you are on netflix/spotify and so on that here is nothing else so if you want to read you must pay its all a trade.

          KrampusHD
          Those other sites for most books are piracy, and they have their own downsides. Skipping over moral debates, those sites usually just take chapters as soon as they're written. This means that if an author fixes errors, updates an old chapter, or rewrites portions of the book, then those changes likely won't take place on the pirate site. Just something to keep in mind.

          Also, as another commentator said, those sites can't pirate if this site isn't profitable. Webnovel, translators, and authors get paid based on how many people buy their chapters. It's best to not encourage others to pirate even if you do so yourself. That way, things remain more profitable and you can continue to enjoy the books in the future.

          Webnovel also has the subscription option now, granted it's only in beta for Android at the moment. I'd imagine this will solve the issue of cost for many readers.

            As an author, I hope people would be willing to pay for my story. If you only want free isn't that being unfair to the authors? Most of us write because we enjoy it, but we would love to quit our jobs and do this full time. However, we can't do that if people don't pay us.

              VynDahl

              The prices you are asking is the issue, most people do not mind paying, but why should I pay for your novel over ISSTH? Is it on the same level. Maybe yours is, but in general, most novels here are not. Which is why people have these issues.

              Also, your writing is not on the level of works like harry potter etc, so charing simular prizes is why people are upset.

                  Acutelittletrap
                  KrampusHD

                  Author's don't decide the price of Spirit Stones, they just do what they do best, writing.

                  It's the site that counts every 200 words as 1 Spirit Stone, so unless you want 200 word chapters everyday, your best bet is to suck it up and stop whining.

                  Don't want to conform to the monetary system? Leave, s1mple as that. No need to say the exact same thing everyone else says when they 'leave'(most of these people eventually come back to find new novels to read) the site.

                        And talking about prices, the monthly suscription is 25$, yeah 25$ to read some shitty novels ( we all know that 98% of novels in this site are complete garbage), and with 10$ you only get 500 SS, for every locked chapter you have to pay 12-20+ SS, that's aroun 0,25$ for a chapter, let say you read a single novels, with 2 daily chapters, you'll have to pay : 0,25×2×30(days)=15$.
                        15$ to read a single novel, 120% rip off, I'd better go spend my time watching netflix with a low monthly suscription and unlimited* content...

                        Puncake

                        Author's, in general, decide the price of their content.

                        Nice bypassing the system...

                        Also, Fuck off with your shutting me up mindset just because I do not agree with you.

                        Have you seen webnovel staff complain about people's viewpoints no? Then STFU.

                        Do they listen to us? Maybe their price for the subscription is high, but honestly it is better than what we had before.

                        While I personally, do not think the price is set correctly, they are the people with the Raw Data, and if it set up similar to how Amazon is, I think the overall system might be pretty good.

                        I had made a post about before it was a thing, so people like me and whoever else you decide to diss help give web novel new ideas.

                            Hey everyone, this guy says he is leaving! Yeah... no one cares. Most of the novels are garbage, not worth the storage space they take on my virtual memory, so you don't really need that many spirit stones. Now if you want to read garbage then you have to learn to deal with the stink.

                              KrampusHD I agree. What I hated most was that they don't contract most authors and expected them to write for free. I feel this is wrong on so many levels.

                              I can't say I like the pirated sites. It was actually the main reason I quit publishing on WN. I asked for WN to help me, but they didn't/ said they couldn't because I wasn't contracted with them. The whole situation made me cry and become upset. I almost quit writing. I since moved to a Patreon only model, but still release daily free chapters.

                              If anyone is even wondering who the hell I am, I am the author of Macha's Journey. For the older members, you probably remember me. I'm doing well and still doing my daily chapters! :) I just decided to log on the forums and see what's up.

                                  BabyTanuki They can't help you because YOU are the copyright holder... They literally do not have the right to help you.

                                      CKtalon Yes. I went over that with you guys already. TY. Zzzzz......... Either way, it wasn't something I wanted to deal with on this site. Write for free, not get contracted or paid, etc. Not worth the headache. Although I understand as a person employed by WN, you must moderate the forums and read posts like this one.

                                          Subscription price is too damn high to even consider it atm.

                                            BabyTanuki
                                            Didn't Macha's Journey use to be fairly popular? If so, then you could have applied for a contract through Discord. That's what I did after entering the top 50 in the rankings. Granted, ranking doesn't guarantee anything.

                                            Unfortunately, piracy will always be an issue for easily-accessible goods like novels. Same goes for similar media like comics, movies, and video games. If a novel is ever pirated, all the copyright holder can really do is send a DMCA to have it taken down, which isn't a particularly tedious or troublesome thing to do. However, most piracy sites are hosted in obscure countries where it either isn't illegal or the creators of the pirate sites just don't care, so the DMCA will often accomplish nothing.

                                            If it makes you feel any better, the fact that your book was free to begin with means that very few people were likely reading it on the pirate sites since they would likely be aware of it being free on the original platform. Also, most pirates aren't willing to pay for content in the first place, so it's a bit debatable whether it would really result in lost income or not. I know from experience though that it definitely doesn't feel good having your hard work stolen.

                                            Ultimately, the best solution to piracy is usually ease of access to goods. That's why Steam killed most video game pirating and Netflix killed most movie pirating. Unfortunately, new platforms are starting to compete with these two services, resulting in fragmented services that divide up content, which is inconvenient for users. I imagine we'll start seeing a steady increase in movie and video game pirating over the next decade as a result. And so continues the ever ongoing war of piracy vs ease of access for the consumer >.>

                                                CKtalon damn. I always thought you to be a moderator. What novel are you translating?

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