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  • 【Important Announcement】Monthly Elite subscriptions adjustment

geeiein am really disappointed. I purchased quite a lot of spirit stone then when that elite members came out I immediately subscribed. now this damn Webnovel stopped it and all those nobels I unlocked with the spirit stone I purchased were back to locked. It seems robbery to me.

    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.

        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.

          When will the elite subscription be back?
          If it won’t I might as well stop using this app altogether...
          Too bad I’ll never get to continue reading my favorite novels here... it’s not only a ripoff when using SS but it is also extremely inconvenient to have to unlock everytime you advance to the next chapter.
          I reckon the management and the admins didn’t think this through thoroughly.
          So disappointing...

            If they take away the subscriptions permanently or raise it any higher than it already is then I'm totally done with these greedy people. These novels can be read on other sites without paying, its just the quality might be lower but at least I'll be saving money. You guys are way to greedy with your schemes.

            Lukas 50 dollars a month i can get amazon netflix audible and 1-2 more service for that amount. i dont know where you pull your prices from but 25 was alrdy way overpriced for what you get.

              I already pay for the monthly subscription. Why previous chapters still need to unlock by ss. It is not fair since I already paid. At least if you want to cancel the subscription and we need to pay for ss please do for newest chapters not the previous chapters.

              I don't see them doing anything before April 28 as that is when all current subscriptions would end.

                Due to the fact I still have not got my refund. I will leave this. For everyone

                Wuxia novvvels app. 100 free. All the same books plus more.

                Web novel. Screw off. I want my money back

                Enjoy everyone.

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