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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.

Lupyy Must be part of their marketing strategy. -.-

WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL How do I make sure that the settings for Google play for the subscription is turned off?

I "Need" the elite subscription back as i found myself spending almost $50 reading two novels so the elite subscription makes the most sense to me

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.

When is the subscription model coming back?

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.

Dante_The_Immortal I am one of these people. I donated over 2000 spirit stones to "The World Online" after getting premium. That is $60 that I literally threw away thinking I wouldn't need spirit stones anymore. Very upset about this.

I also subscribed. At least give us our ss chapters worth instead of locking everything.

I also subscribed. At least give us our ss chapters worth instead of locking everything.

Morinu amen... Need new one fast

WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL When is the Elite membership going to be available again?

WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL you know i was quite dissapointed with this. I was saving up some money to continue my subscription. Well I did notice that if you continued with your elite membership you might lose out some authors/translator. I suggest if you ever read this that you might put some restrictions about this subscriptions like you can only choose 5 novels for your unlimited reading experience for one month, I say 5 cause there are translators that are slow to update, Some that the promised bonus chapter queu is piling up but they can only update 3-4 times a week. Or you can also lower your subscription fee just lower someone commented above. Or you can do both. But I do hope you all officials can make some quick desicions so that we readers, your customers, can experience this New elite membership.

geeiein my thoughts exactly. Why should it cost more than netflix when half the content is unfinished and updates are also not for certain. Psssh

ishimori1 I said the same thing. It was not listed anywhere that it would be a trial run.

WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL I think it is unfair of you to lock 2 months worth of chapters that we paid for(buying the premium) because you decided to cancel the premium on your own. Never mentioned that it was just a test. It is unfair to us who paid for it without prior knowledge of it being a test. This is just bad planning on your part.

weaselwunder if you used CC, have you filed a chargeback? You should be able to file it under goods and services not received and give this post as evidence with an explanation that this is an official announcement but they seem to not know how to refund people.

What do you guys expect? This is cooperate.
First they give you the product like drugs once your addicted enough, you have to pay the price they ask there is no use until they have competitor.

MaryFord I have filled for a refund via Google because these people refuse to reply and almost 20 days now with no refund or reply. If enough people that got screwed over with this make complaints and file witn Google for a refund they will be removed from the Google play store

Very unprofessional to cancel immediately with no warning. It was not even advertised as a beta but a full-fledged feature.
Huge loss in respect.

So.... When will you guys return the Elite subscription? I've registered and subscribed for this app, paying more than $30 monthly just to enjoy unlimited access no matter how expensive it is and now you guys are telling us that you'll revoke the Elite subscription??? This is more costly than Netflix, yet I still subscribed since I'm a huge fan, but you guys are telling us that 30bucks plus is still not enough?! How disappointing... You should have came up with a better marketing plan and gotten your finance team to formulate a better plan before you started charging people... $30 monthly is already unreasonable, yet people who love this app still diligently purchased it monthly and now you've gone and revoked it! Tsk.... Really really disappointed. My card has already been charged, how the hell am i gonna get a refund??!! Refund us or return the Elite subscription!

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This is absolutely ridiculous, the chapters that we've read should at least be unlocked because it's absolutely ridiculous that I had premium and I read through all those chapters and now I can't go into re read those because they're locked now and it's going to cost me soul stones which I didn't buy because I didn't think that the membership was going to expire. For those authors that where seeing a drop in income maybe make it so that where the chapters have to be unlocked with ss but have it be like a 75% reduction for members or something so that way it a super small amount of ss, but just straight up ripping membership especially the short notice not a very good idea especially with how expensive it was priced in the 1st place. Also there was no official announcement that I could see or even noticed on the app that this was happening because I'm not a person that normally checks the forums a lot. I just noticed this post because I was like what happened to my membership I should check the forums to see what's going on and I see this post. Feeling quite peeved probly not gonna wanna buy the next membership for a while just because this leaves a bad taste in my mouth. This was extremely poorly handled there should have been a much clearer notice at least that this was happening.

WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL At this point i highly doubt anyone actually reads this thread. But i just want to keep it at the top of the forum, so that webnovel staff is constantly reminded of the money they lose because all this upset people are reading the novels at very accessable pirate sites.

Dont understand why it was necessary to switch off the service. If you need to make changes then do it? Like how long are your processes for executives decisions. Wow

Rhisgol Most people just want an easy way to find something to read and not look at the announcements. I only came after my subscription ended and was wondering wtf going on.

deacon_burns tbh, unlocking all the read chapters under the subscription was never an option for webnovel to give you. There's no way to tell if someone speed read through a ton of chapters or loaded a bunch to read later on.

soo..... when the function back.

honestly. i prefer this app because it's the first novel app i have since it launched. but if it continues like this i have to think other app for sure.

Floofuzz I totally agree!

Decadence1 I would recommend Inkitt and Wattpad both free, but more of a western books

Whelp I was just reading one of my novels when I went to the next chapter it wanted me to unlock it and was like wtf I thought I had a sub so I could read without having to unlock. There wasn't anything on the app saying that subs had gone away and nothing on the main website either. I only managed to find this thread by googling webnovel elite subs.

Disappointed in this quality of life going away. Guess its back to the underground railroad for releases. At least with elite subs I could support the writers but there's no way I will spend 60+ USD on stones for unfinished work. And work that has tons of grammatical errors, spelling errors, etc.

NookNatu03 u go to playstore/googleplay website. there's a "subscribe" section for u to turn it off

I suggest users to go on google play/app store and give webnovel a review so that other users can beware of other problems. Also it’ll lower their stars. Maybe a bunch of negative reviews will finally get their attention.