Ofron They charge full price for something they translate, often times poorly. Throwing garbage arguments at me is just stupid. The ignorant defending the debase and greedy. Shut your ignorant mouth if all you can do is pick at pieces of something while completely missing the point. It's idiots like you that allow garbage companies like this to continue operating.
【Important Announcement】Monthly Elite subscriptions adjustment
WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL pls.pls pls pls work quickly on a replacement version that solves those issues.having the freedom to read as i pleased was fantastic, and I was pretty depressed to find out that i have to go back to the old ways of limiting how much I read because of SS.
@WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL It was pretty obvious that the elite subscription would make some authors and translators get more than others, because 100% of people who bought more than 25$ in SS went direct to the elite subscription, while few people who never bought SS or only bought less than 25$ decided to become elite (probably they really can't afford it).
I managed to finish a few books during my 2 months as elite and I would like to take part of the next "beta" and I have a suggestion.
It is something similar to Crunchyroll.
1) Free users: they stay with the current status, reading through winning bonus SS
2) elite: paid subscription with access to everything already published ( subscription between 10-20$)
3) Premium: they are elite, who uses SS to read in advance the chapters of the next week, this means they will be spending SS almost in the same way of the current premium.
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You’ve just lost at least one, if not many more, of your readers entirely. This was a service that I was more than happy to use, but not only did you take it away, but you did so with only the equivalent notice of a MySpace update. (Notifications is a tab to let us know when you are changing services, yet I had to troubleshoot my way to your forum to find this.) Yet I would have overlooked all that if not for your apparent disdain for the readers. You seem to think that we won’t catch on to your constant changes to the system. That, by changing things so that the translators get more money for less work time and time again, that we’ll just keep paying. You had an opportunity, to show that you actually gave a rats a$$ about the readers, by giving us a way to not have to do everything manually. NEWS FLASH, NOBODY LIKES TO BUILD DAMS WITH WOOD BOARDS AND THIS IS NOT CHINA. So as the Ausi say, “Sod off ya bloody wanka!” Maybe next time you’ll think a little more about your readers.
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This is B.S. I finally get cut a break on spending cash for spirit stones and yall pop up out of nowhere with this nonsense on top of that my Google play doesn't even have the subscription listed to cancel even though it's in my transaction history. So now I cant even tell if I'm gonna continue to get charged for a service yall sold me on. I'm seriously considering giving this website and app up and just saying f##k it n go try my luck with different novels on other sites or just go back to manga and video games. Get your sh#t together. If a author or translator is losing money cuz everyone is reading other people's work than theirs then oh well it's the nature of the business. And stop being a baby about it. If your writing a book or translating a novel that no one reads why are you messing with the publics subscriptions that we paid for?
Yep there are a lot of "free" sites out there ,it's a shame but I will need to be finding them . Because 1000 chapters at say 7 ss a chapter is a lot more than most people can afford, especially when you find out it was just a filler.
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The subscription itself was overpriced as is, but now you're stopping it because a small portion of the novels saw less income, so what? Surely the many novels with more income should counter that?
Stopping the subscription service is going to cause authors to lose money while the few top authors make more, is that what you want lol>
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"due to how income is split through monthly subscriptions, a small number of authors have suffered a drop in income. This impact on some of our authors' income runs counter to Webnovel's goal to increase every contracted author's income."
This is what i take issue with, you're fucking over a large number of authors whose income increased, for the minority who were already making more money, there is no way to increase everyones income without charging retard rates which will encourage piracy.
All chapters that I have read with monthly elite are now locked.... what is wrong with you? Why must I pay for something that already paid for.
Dante_The_Immortal Very true..... this is unfair.... suddenly my membership is no more.... I can’t keep buying ss for the amount I read....
Pls quick start membership option...you can't do this to us....
WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL i'm very upset.
WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL MARKETING SCHEME???
Is this another marketing ploy?? Hungering the market (users)?? Give them a taste, then take it away. I am pretty sure there are some people who can not wait. Ending up buying SS to continue reading. First they advertisement for chapters, then introduce spirirt stones with premium, when people started bulking up there SS stash to bulk read they then ADD expiration limits on the free and purchased SS which mostly hurt the free SS forcing some to purchase. Then add gifting SS which i think was a waste but another bait for users to buy more SS to gift. Which was to make preperation for the new subscription which is good, because they do not need them. Now they remove the option to subscribe causing some to purchase SS. WOW good job Webnovel who ever is in charge or the brains of the marketing team REALLY GOOD JOB.
what will be your next MARKETING SCHEME???
i'm disappointed in the fact that the subscription service has end because i read a lot on my free time. I read at least 50-100 chapters a day and now that i no longer have the subscription i now have to spend more money to read the books i like to read everyday. its starting to seem like a waste of money now i was happy and willing to pay for the subscription but now i don't know how to feel. please bring it back......
WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL As a reader, I’m totally agree that we have to pay for the author that has given us many great novels to read. However, if you think that 30 us dollars is not enough for us to pay for a month and insist us to buy the SS. It is indeed too much! We have novels to read and each chapter cost us like 5-8 SS. It is 3 times more than what I’m paying for netflix !!!!! I think u should keep the elite subscription as it is and not change. Well if you guys change it dont increase the price.... Its too much for us, some of us are even student :( We apreciate the author that’s why we willing to pay not look at other website to read, but also give us a fair and worth price to the loyal reader !
I'm so disappointed I read a lot I read so many that I am reading about 20 Storys because there's not enough chapters out and now that I have to go back to SS instead of the membership I'm gonna have to read less and I do all my reading here I don't even buy books no more this really sucks
WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL Because of the inconvenience of author we the reader cannot even satisfy our daily read.i thoughts we the reader come first how about you bring back the elite for now and then when you guys figure something out you change that how it always work for others viewing platforms you incorporate the changes not take it out all together.i see so many of my book there that is updated but I can’t read any it making me reallly mad.plus most of the book here are the translator not the real author
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How long will it be before we will see the elite program come back? Because I honestly cant go back to almost spending 100$ a week to ready favorite books.
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