When do you plan on bringing it back for sale?
【Important Announcement】Monthly Elite subscriptions adjustment
Webnovel’s lack of response shows how they feel about their customers.
I have subscription last Mar 28. It shoud be until April 28. Why now all the chapters are lock. I still have until April 28. What happen. Even my stones are back to 0. I have 200+ stones.
Tell what happen. I paid the 1300 subscription for 1 month so i can continously read my favorite novel. What happen. Pls answer.
Chilatow your the idiot if you think your rambling does any good. This company legally own these stories they can do what they want with them. So what if people want to support them. If you like something you support it... Nothing enjoyable comes free. If you hate this place so much you should've deleted the app and/or stopped coming to the website. If I see a reply from you it just proves your love for drama and hate mongering. Useless dribble. Everyone here obviously lost alot with the subscription going away but some people's complaints just go too far.
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To me, the way you've done it really inappropriate... not only, you didn't inform us in the inbox and just posted it in the forum... not all of us always had time to check the forum... but also you didn't inform in the beginning that the Elite Subscription only a trial that someday you will need do some adjustment.... that's one point...
Then if you count the amount of the authors/translators and the readers, I believe the amount of the readers are way much more than the authors/translators... to collect the income I suppose you can use the advertisement or offer the readers some weekly, monthly or yearly of membership/subscription and let the readers to choose... you must remember your SS rate are way much more expensive than the similar website....
Next, I understand that there're some of your contracted author/translators that complaining about the income runs, but I know that you have the statistic that not all of the stories are good or well liked by the readers... As the Web Administrator you have the right to stop the stories that isn't well received. Like stoping the bottom 3 or 5 stories in three months, but you should announced it first in the inbox to the readers and do some survey for bottom 10 stories that you're going to stop to check the readers feedback, by then you also giving time for the authors/translators to know what to do next, etc. You also can pay your authors/translators from the result of their works, you should pay them from the total views of their stories' chapters, for example there's a website that pay their author in the total number of 10,000 views from 1 chapters, the author will received US$ 100 (10,000 x 0.01). With more than 5 millions downloads of your apps in Goolge Apps, that kind of rates are still make sense. Don't only exploited us reader, we are your source of income.
Maybe you'll think, it's going to be a lot of work to do... but your website aren't just a fan-base website... it's business... and that's what you should do to see the market and as the distributors (provider/web administrator) you have to see what will satisfied your supplier (authors and translators) and your customer (readers)... It's hard to believe that this website just a social work without any gain....
WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL can you guys give an ETA so that I can buy SS accordingly!! I was in love with the premium membership, but alas... You guys did not even inform us when you were going to discontinue the service. On top of it there were no contingencies other than buying SS since you thought "LET'S MAKE SOME MONEY WHILE WE'RE AT IT!!" You just went ahead and said go buy some SS until we get a new one in place. Wow!! That's some awesome decision skills you guys got there. At least give an extra alternative man coz we can't even read the chapters we had read previously while we had the "PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP"!! Thanks a lot for taking into consideration how it would impact the users as well!! Kudos to you guys!!!
I'll be taking a break from webnovel until this comes back. Goodbye.
I thought paying $33.99 CAD a month was a bit much, but because I really enjoyed the stories and wanted to support authors I paid for it.
Now you're telling me I don't get to read the ~30 or so stories I have in my library because buying Spirit Stones to support that is literally impossible, unless I spend an amount of money that I cannot afford.
I guess until premium all you can read comes back I'll be off this site for now...ciao :(
Webnobel.
I thought those who purchase the unlimited access for march 28 will not be affected the updated premium. Even my stones are gone.
WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL
when will it be back?
and please stop blocking the downlanding for people on monthly elite
i've a tab and a phone and i can't downland on both since i've become elite and now you even tel us to restart using stone (which i've gift cause no use with the subscriptions...) fuck...
so please tel us when it will be back, will it be a finished version or not, and get the downlanding to work with elite...
(french so sorry for the bad english... and a huge fan of webnovel with more than 2000 mins/week)
Definitely bring back the month subscription. The pay with stones does not generate readership as you price it outside the range of most readers
When is it coming back
Rewindx That and it got expensive pretty quick, twenty bucks for 100 or so chapters depending on length. Then occasionally get that really expensive price hike that seems a little crazy. Like all the chapters are sitting at 8-13 SS and then boom 25 SS for a chapter.
Rewindx That and it got expensive pretty quick, twenty bucks for 100 or so chapters depending on length. Then occasionally get that really expensive price hike that seems a little crazy. Like all the chapters are sitting at 8-13 SS and then boom 25 SS for a chapter.
@WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL are you seriously just going to ignore everyone here?
Not even a reply on eta, a rough revision plan or even at the very least a better explanation rather than the crap you provided us about how some authors got less than others.
You have got people willing to spend money on your app here but you aren't willing to communicate with us. What a joke.
Sorry, but this utter bullshit, the monthly subscription is nice and steady, you dont over buy and it is affordable. Have spent over 500 bucks on the utter money grab that is ss and now you guys shut it down, because you aren't making enough money.
WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL as of apeil 2nd google automaticly canceled my subscription. Is there a timeframe in witch i can expect to get this subscription back since it has saved me alot hassle with spirit stones and everything surrounding that :)
WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL to be honest I don't think you could have handled this situation any worse than you did. Retroactively calling something a trial, because you didn't do a proper job of working out possible issues, means that you were at fault. I don't see you taking responsibility, but I see both readers and authors taking it. If I could I would: 1) Not donate my remaining SS when a subscription was introduced (With no mention of it being a trial mind you.) 2) Not get the subscription, buy SS instead. Since now everything I read is relocked.
Ah well, hindsight is 20/20 huh?
Dante_The_Immortal yrah same situation here, i always donate my SS because im subscribe with the elite
WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL Why not send a notification about the changes before the subscription ended? The sheer lack of common courtesy your company has shown to its customers amazes me.
As an Australian consumer your price structure for SS are a complete rip off. This whole saga was handled poorly and I should not have had to dig through your forum to find the answer on what's going on.
The service you are offering is vastly more expensive than your competitors.
Do better.
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Can someone please file a case against WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL ?
ZanySphere here you're wrong. I hardly ever purchased spirit stones, because I am against the concept as a whole, not because I had no money. I purchased my elite because to me, a sub model is far better for the consumer than a token model.
i feel sorry for my favorite translator & my favorite original works author that i can't spend my precious SS to gift them. slowly i reduce my reading time. TT__TT
Qidian being greedy AGAIN. well not like i didnt expect it. Its afterall Qidian.
I dont see how discontinuing the existence of the elite membership is going to solve their issue. After I bought the elite I was able to go from reading 2 or 3 stories at a time to double that. Now that I've burnt my spirit stones into nothing, I'll be lucky to even read the 2 or 3 I was before. I can't be the only reader like that so I just don't see how this is more likely to help any authors. It also makes it less likely for me to pick up any new stories. I'd love to see any reasoning behind why this was the decided upon decision, because all it feels like is a way to wring our wallets for more for less.
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Qidian should stop thinking webnovels can be sold like normal paperback books. Instead of selling overpriced books to few they should try to get as much people to read. And then put out some advantages if you support your favorite authors more.
I could see monthly subscription of about 15-20 euros that would give me ability to read everything but say 20 newest chapters of premium novels. And if I gifted 100 spirit stones to novel I could read those 20 newest chapters as well for week. This would give people ability to support novels they really like. (about two novels a week for free and with money if they wanted).
15 euros is standard for subscription libraries like this - see Netflix. Since I like reading I bought this costly premium subscription anyway but I couldn't recommend it to friends with good feelings. And I wouldn't be able to keep it running for whole year - max few months. As I see it Qidian right now caters for elite rich members in rich countries. Really weird for Chinese company and wired overall with this portfolio of services.
With ss like they are now - I want to read 10 premium novels - 2 chapters /day = 200ss/day = 6000ss/month = 1/10 of my monthly pay... rly?
I know I am from poor country but still..
snowonereadslikeme I know what you mean. I was wondering why all of my chapters suddenly were locked. Now i know why.
To say I am disappointed to find out you have discontinued the elite subscription through a forum post is a extreme understatement.
i am disappointed that they didn't sent any notification and only put here a post.
RecycleBin I found out when google sending me a mail telling me that my subscription was canceled.
To commemorate this fiasco, they should create an achievement badge: gotten screwed
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WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL this is really stupid. I can barely afford the 25$ for the subscription and you expect me to be able to pay to read as much as I do using ss? It would cost me likely over a hundred dollars a month to read everything I do.... this is seriously pissing me off. I only found out about this shit after my subscription expired like 30 min ago.... all I'm saying is if things change too much I will no longer be using this app. I will find another way to read.
They cant expect people to buy a 25€/month sub just for convenience. Obviously at this price people will count if it would be cheaper or not with spirit stones, so obviously it would decrease their revenue because the only people who bought this 25€ sub were people who spent more than 25€/month in ss. They should just remove free ss completely and offer 10€ sub which would be much more fair, effectively getting rid of "leechers" without having to make it extremely expensive for the paying customers
If they thing we pay to littel. They can make elite subscriptions in to lvl.
10 $ - 10 novels
20 $ - 25 novels
50 $ - All novels
I also can't afford if you want me to buy spirit stone more than 3000 SS to finish a novel. It's more expensive than we buy novel book at the book store.
The subscription that we had earlier is indeed not too cheap and not too expensive.
Beside if you want to stop this program, you should have replacement for it. It's too mean for your loyal reader to buy that much SS to finish a novel.
Until there is a replacement for the elite member, I won't buy any SS.
You dig your own grave by doing this. One by one loyal reader will leave webnovel. If you really respect us please come up with new program that not expensive for us to enjoy your apps.
The subscription model is better then SS in my opinion as it ultimately promotes readers to read a larger volume, variety, and quality of novels. With the SS model it locks users into a mode of only justifiably wanting to spend money for the novels they like best. QI is right that the most popular novels would likely make less with sub then with SS, but sub is better for the less popular novels and that promotes more translators in the community overall due to increased scope/volume of readership. QI should just be adjusting the allocation function to better align with the allocation of money from SS if they have an issue, not cancelling the program entirely. They have all the data for viewer and word counts to get the allocation as they want it.
Another turnoff with the SS model is how much it ends up costing. I don't know about other people but I am extremely put off when encountering a paywall of hundreds of chapters; whether that is due to not reading a novel for a while or picking a new one up. I can justify paying a premium for the latest chapters but not paying full price for chapters months old and am inclined to read, at least until caught up, from bootleg sites. Currently SS prices are far too expensive which when added up far surpass what you would spend for full priced books on Amazon. Even the subscription prices are already too high if you look at competitors such as Amazon's Kindle Unlimited or even alternative entertainment like Netflix both for $10/month.
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One thing to realise about this company is that our opinions don't matter.
Customers are not king, Webnovel is king. Money is king.
Their attitude on not responding to our comments of dissatisfaction, and the minimal amount of notifications tells us a lot about them. I have only noticed notifications on this forum and their Facebook page only because I was looking for information.
People who only interacted with this company/platform through the app were not notified with any notifications that were noticeable. And a lot of us only use the app. So I can understand the surprise and frustration when all books were suddenly locked.
So the question is, do we still want to keep reading through them? Just be prepared to get ripped off over and over if so. That is their attitude to us.
I will not recommend or invite anyone to use this service. I will actually dissuade them of that decision.
This company's attitude stinks. I'm also not sure if all these changes over time was a marketing ploy or not.
When people subscribed to elite there was an event to donate SS to novels for unused SS. Now they cancelled subscriptions but we don't have anymore SS to read, so we now need to buy more. Coincidence? Hmm.
WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL How do I make sure that the settings for Google play for the subscription is turned off?