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geeiein pretty much exactly this. The prices for spirit stones compared with the spirit stone cost for chapters is insane. Some novels are nice but overall the quality is not in any way better than a book from kindle or from your local bookshop. I'm not paying 60+ USD for a single book, so why should I pay the same amount in spirit stones per chapter ending up with the same.

The subscription was a good compromise for value and cost for people who read a lot. If the prices for spirit stones don't change drastically or a reasonable subscription system comes out, I will likely just get novels elsewhere, like amazon and overall it will be cheaper. Paying for a good book is fine, but paying 3-5 times what I would pay for a hardcover copy is just a ripoff.

I'm done, fairly happily even when I'm paying twice the price of my netflix and spotify subscriptions and your still not milking enough out of me? they can go out and find new readers because I wont be one

roku012 Are you even comparing the right stuff? Movies cost a bomb to produce surely translating a book or writing one would cost way less..

cleetonjake honestly I might do the same. I did buy a bit of ss but never as much as you lol. If they don't do something soon I'm probably gonna leave, I liked some of the stories on here but it's not worth it if I'm gonna have to wait 4 months to even read it fully by getting the free ss. Idk when I joined it was nice and a lot of the stories actually inspired me to do writing. But that's of course when I could actually read other books now that I'd either have to wait a long time to read a full book (which is ridiculous tbh) or just fork out a good chunk of cash, I'd rather just leave and go somewhere else.

I feel like the problem is that the cost of the subscription is high enough that the only people that buy it are those that read a lot of chapters, which results in their loss. If regular people saw a $10 per month subscription option, more people would buy it and there would probably be a good chunk of people that don't fully utilize the subscription, thus offsetting the cost of the people that read a lot. Personally, I have a Google music subscription and a Netflix subscription that I only occasionally use, which is basically free money for them. I don't mind letting them sit there for $10 a month for the convenience of not having to start/stop the subscription for when I do want them. For a $25 subscription? You bet that I'm using every bit of it.

djbaker89 can recommend what other places to read similar books from here?

Ah_ling boxnovel looks decent

What, you mean Webnovel doesn't care about its customers and will make any changes they want, regardless of how it affects its customers? Say it ain't so.

Webnovel needs to understand that their biggest competition is aggregator sites. All these novels will get posted elsewhere so if their pricing plan is not reasonable then there's nothing stopping people from leaving to read for free in other places. It's the same for anything...Webnovel might be unique in what they're doing but piracy is an option and one that people will take more and more as the price to read here stays unreasonable. Most people with income would gladly pay for services they use over pirating them if the price is reasonable.

I had purchased Hundreds if not thousands of chapters through grinding spirit stones and small purchases here and there. When the subscription came out, I got it immediately. Unfortunately, now with it ended, all the chapters are locked, including ones I had purchased. This is outright stealing back chapters I had paid for before. Worst thing is, I was in the middle of rereading 40,000 millenniums of Cultivation. I would have to repurchase hundreds of chapters I’ve already bought once. Can we get an update of when subscription comes back? I’m not buying anymore until then.

YCG If you did it with google here is how you cancel the subscription: https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/7018481?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en
Apple device go here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202039

Hope this helps

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How come everybody else only paid $25 where I had to pay $38.99?
And then only found out about this after my subscription expired

You unstickied it but we aren’t done yet

BionicArk I completely agree with you. I did mention that there are a lot of filler Content and they are not worth the SS. All I am saying is Compromise should come from Webnovel first only then Readers who are willing to pay will do so.

Rhisgol calm down fellow reader I clearly gave Disclaimer that I am not a huge supporter of Webnovel I no where said they should charge exorbitant prices. I only gave my view that the Subscription should be quite cheaper compared to paying SS.

Phantasma_ yep definitely they are publisher in hard copies so perhaps a 30-40% but in online Translation mode they are basically just sort of agreegator. The share should be lower if Translator also gets a small % or else still 25% should be enough . Well it's all on Financial Situation and requirements

Phelpsbassoon Take a screenshot and report this to them as this is an error. I have ALL of my prior chapters that I purchased after subscription has ended. Only the chapters that I didn’t unlock became locked again. They don’t relock chapters after you already purchased them so report this as an error in the forum.

Phantasma_ objectively though it should be looked at as a series rather than a single book. Many novels here are actually split into multiple books, but condensed into one for ease of reading. No book has 2000 chapters, but a series can certainly reach that number.

Not saying that the prices aren't somewhat high, just that it's misleading to say it's just one book.