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I completely understand that this is a choice to pay for these "early" chapters - what really rubs me the wrong way is that it makes it seem like the translators/authors had ALL these chapters the whole time but were trickling out 2 chapters a day and stringing the readers along until the opportunity to get their readers to pay more came along and BAM! 50+ chapters are now available. This is the part that makes the whole thing seem incredibly greedy IMO. I think webnovel could have timed this new system better (like seriously releasing the news of xin hitting $10k + this privilege system at the same time?! Wow. At least give us time to be happy for the author and make her the butt of some jokes out there) because it seems pretty tone-deaf to the readers.

Anyways, pay if you got the stones but know that you just got to KEEP paying.

Interdict So, we can all LMAO at these people who are just kicking themselves in the nuts and paying for the privilege to do so. LOL

Paying upwards of 2500 spirits for bonus (50) chapters, then still having to pay the spirits to unlock each chapter which would be another 600 Spirits. Goddamn that awful.

To Qidian,
When I open the app I want to know how many chapters I have unread on a book. I can’t tell now because you list the amount available with Privelege and that varies story to story. One may have 54 chapters ahead and another 35. It’s impossible to keep track of and has rendered the actual count I have available useless. I don’t have hundreds of dollars to burn on buying Privelege but I do give you some money for SS so please do something different for the count. Maybe list the number of Privelege chapters separately.

Interdict Yeah, you should never mess with a person reading! I'll be like a cat clawing out at them.
I hope they fix this soon

TheCrimsonFcker help them take notice by not giving them any money

WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL Can you guys change the amount of “unread” chapters in the library to before though? Like I’d rather know how many actual chapters I have left to read, not the unlisted priviledged chapters

Aqura just noticed someone else mentioned this earlier but oh well, hope this gets acknowledged and changed soon

For those buying provilage. I advise to only buy upto 15 chaps or the second privilage. The other once are not worth paying for and will only incur significant loss

krustynobb what a privilege !

CKtalon It’s all well and good for a privilege to be accessible only to the select few who are willing to purchase it. However all those examples you gave - the VIP lounges, the business class plane tickets, the VIP concert tickets etc. ALL have a CLEAR advantage to the paying customers. Your privilege system DOESN’T. From the look of things, these “privilege readers” are paying hundreds, if not thousands, of SS to see the titles of chapters they don’t actually have access to. Why not reduce the cost of the chapters which are STILL locked after purchasing the privilege (instead of keeping it at the same price that non-privilege readers pay) OR reduce the cost of the privilege itself? From the point of view of the majority of readers here, this system has no clear advantages or benefits, it’s just an excessive cost for a non-existent right. Therefore, it is not a privelege. Stop throwing that word around.

Cantiara I wish I could have liked this comment a hundred times. This should be bimoed up because that is EXACTLY what this botched job of a “privilege” system sounds like!

Kni8ht Moboreader is such an app. I'm not sure if anyone else has suggested this because I haven't finished reading the whole thread yet.

The novels that signed up for privilege now reflect that they were updated 5 or 6 days ago. I think maybe that's the day they went "privilege" and now even the latest regular releases are dated to show they are "stale." Maybe it's WN's way to get under people's skin so they're always aware they're not reading the latest stuff. If they can't trick any more people into signing up for it, maybe they're banking on irritating people enough to shell out cash?

if it was only to pay to get advance chapters i would not really mind and actually suport it but now you pay too read 10 Chapters a head of others fine but you haw to pay 1000s for reading a head Sertan number of chapters but you also haw to pay ageen for each Chapter after you All ready pay-de once to read a head lol That is just Greedy

Will the novels get released normally again (without Privilege, only 1 payments) once they end though?
I would really Like to know the end of some novels someday. I could wait.

FleetingClouds In theory, they keep getting released at the usual rate so if a novel gets completed you just have to wait longer than the privileged people to read the end.

You pay for privilege to reading ahead but you pay more to unlock chapter. Just for one book

FleetingClouds

Privilege is to unlock advance chapters. Once a novel ends, there will be no more advance chapters, so logically speaking, the Privilege program for that particular novel should also end.