I don't get this "privilege" crap about 25 or 50 chapters in advance but I read enough to get that it is basically:
1. you pay bulk SS to unlock the LIST of LOCKED chapters
2. you pay MORE SS to unlocked those chapters in those list

in basic understanding, the current so-called "Privilege" system is akin to you coming into a restaurant and having to PAY just to BE GIVEN THE MENU. THAT'S a problem.

Honestly, I don't care about that. I'm not interested in advance chapters, daily release is where I got my fun. My PROBLEM however is when even daily chapter got LOCKED behind that "privilege", THAT'S a problem. That's a fcked up system that SERIOUSLY undermined the readers.

I get that you want to pay the translators (despite the fact that MOST -not all-of the novels' Raw in this place are free to read at the original source), I'm fine with that, they did the work. This however, is NOT how it should be done. Hefty monthly subscription to read any novel and chapters in the server? That's a deal. Paying a few for each chapter release? I can live with that. Paying bulk to unlock multiple chapters in advance to read? Sure. Paying Hefty amount JUST to open the LIST of chapters to read? That's scam and a crime that can be judged by law of most country with internet fair use regulation.

I'm suggesting this to be fixed, otherwise this website WILL be facing multiple lawsuit from the readers who lived in those countries.

Piokilek Look, I don't have problem with paying in bulk to READ advanced chapters but it comes with the provision that when I pay it in bulk, I want those chapters UNLOCKED and READY TO READ. Spending close to 200 USD only to be GIVEN THE MENU is NOT my idea of a worthy spending.

Imagine you going to restaurant whose food are $10 - 20 at most but you have to pay a whooping $100 just TO BE GIVEN THE MENU. I'm pretty sure, you'll just walk out of the restaurant, never to return and most likely even REPORT them law enforement for fraud. yet THAT is EXACTLY what happens here and the "YOU" in that example are the READERS.

    Its double pay for temporary advantage and you still need to unlock the locked chapters. Corporation exploitation at its finest :(

    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

      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..

              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 😩

                    @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.

                          chili047 It used to be advertised falsely but they have updated the ambiguous sentences and explanation on their Privilege page as well as the Privilege Rules. So it shouldn't be misleading anymore now. Sorry that you spent your SS and didn't get what you thought you'd be getting though.

                              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.

                                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.

                                    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"

                                          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.

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