@WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL out here scamming their consumers again. Nothing new but still makes my blood boil
Privileged chapters
Just compare wuxiaworld patreon with this this system...and i think i dont mind waste more money in ww patreon than this qidian i mean hey at least i paid for advance chp without pay to unlock the chp again lmao
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Btw i still didnt get that new system(the privileged chp)
Nvm :im still use the old ver lmao...cuz i know new ver qidian app will always have
1.bug
2.new system
Im glad i didnt update the app
If I go to a store and buy a book it’s $20-30 and in a hardback form. I understand word count and the time it takes to do it. But again there are a lot of redundancies in a lot of the translated novels. Why can’t Webnovel just charge a flat fee for every book you want to read? If I bought the Harry Potter series right now as a set on Amazon it’s $55 dollars. And you have an actual book. @CKtalon you’re telling me that you think this is fair market value? I have no problems paying for books and or services rendered. But to tell me that this system is legit or even fair is totally a scam. If you made every 100 chapters $5 bucks even for a 2000 chapter book is $100. I understand the need to pay translators I truly believe they should be paid but how much of the money is currently going to them? The authors need to be paid too but how much is going to them? How much is webnovel taking off the bottom line. You’re not transparent in this. You are just stating prices without divulging what percentage goes to who. You want to support the authors and translators but nothing shows how much each of them are making off of a translated novel. The SS we use and the total amount of SS are not stated but you show how many power stones are used for votes? We as readers would like to see how much a novel makes is SS. Give a breakdown and show us you’re not being greedy. You can put up all this info up on the page. @WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL translators say they are not making money or less money but it doesn’t show what they make monthly? Now we all know you won’t divulge this information. I would love to see a reply to this one from webnovel. Let’s see how first class and country clubs can respond to this. Because if most of the money were truly going to authors and translators I’d be surprised.
krustynobb Really? Then this is not worth it.. Anyway, we pay per chapter, so we should not have to pay more just to access a stockpile of chapters, which we still need to pay individually for..
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Nizze
Actually @Piokilek hasn't use privilege system in his novels, at least until now.
On the other hand, I really can't get demanding as much as 4000 ss per month. If you make it this expensive, just make it permanent. Not mentioning that it would work in sync with subscription, but to make it work you would have to look at things in long term perspective.
And @CKtalon is truly WN employee, as soon as arguments get uncomfortable he decides to simply ignore everything.
My SS burned in vain to unlock 1 page of the latest chapter in Pet King 
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@WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL i would like a refund on the privilege chapters I’ve bought. Why would charge us 500-4000 stones and then make us pay again to unlock the chapters we payed for. Not acceptable! You said when we get the privilege chapters it says unlocks the chapters why do we still get charge. This is fraud because this is not what you described or advertise, refund us back our money.
chili047 you did read the About Privileges page? It said you pay to get the privilege to read ahead, you still needed to unlock the chapters. Not read ahead and the chapters automatically unlocked.
You could wait as normal otherwise.
This is stupid you pay for 50 adv chapter and you still need to fking pay those 50 chapter again in order for you to read. i think i will just go fking read raw and make my own fking sentence. sorry for my bad english and fuck you webnovel.
Here in Germany it would fall under Scam even if it was a mistake in the Explanation, in Consumer Rights with high punishment.
OverseerRose
Wohoo I am not the only german! 
Can we ask the consumer center about this?
Maybe they can influence something for a central regulation.
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Not only this https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/online_fraud_2017.pdf
We can even go and let this http://hschuster.userweb.mwn.de/Gesetze%20pdf/DS-GVO.pdf handle them.
Cause GDPR is not only for EU it is also for Companys/Websites outside the EU.
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OverseerRose there wasn't a mistake. People just didn't read the Rules thoroughly. Even with the old one it was stated you need to Unlock the chapters.
The old Rules said "After purchasing Privileges, readers can UNLOCK stockpiled chapters" I highlighted the word unlock personally for emphasis.
That may be it but this practice falls under Fraud to pay to pay again here in Germany.
Also alone the GDPR in the EU is very harsh when you look into the GDPR here it is full of holes and the entire Website could get sued EU wide also blocked for the entire EU.
Article 3, Paragraph 2.
EU GDPR
"Territorial scope"
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junnakurokawa The old version of the rules were ambiguous and could be misleading. Not every reader here is a native English speaker (heck, sometimes the original authors/translators/editors can't even get it right), so you can't expect these people to be able to read between the fine lines. It's WN's responsibility to make this clear to their customers. Stop defending the old rules, you're just victim blaming and it won't give WN the incentives to improve their service and do better.
OverseerRose you pay for the PRIVILEGE to see the chapters. Then you UNLOCK the chapters as normal.
Think of it as a VIP status in games. You still need to pay for stuff buy the fact is, you have access to certain Privileges.
There really wasn't a mistake. It's just two wholly different things.
Cantiara do they? Or they did not read the Rules at all since that's what I'm seeing in the novels I'm reading.
Level of English comprehension needed for that bit was not high. And while the new clarification is better, it wasn't ambiguous.
The old Rules said "After purchasing Privileges, readers can unlock stockpiled chapters". Which part of "can unlock" is unclear?
junnakurokawa Ist not a VIP Service here in Germany and the EU it falls under Onlineshop because you buy something and the other Person gives you something in return.
So to explain when you buy something the law says:
"The Dealer/Shop must! say the incurred Costs (In $) that can occur after the purchase you have done. So simply put, you buy the Privilege and at this Moment they must tell you before you click on yes (Popup Notice) that you could have a cost of X$ after you purchased the Priviledge.