Monthly suscribtion was fine priced, now authors want 2000 diamonds for 5 chapters with privelege ! This privelege thing is a robery, completely insane pricing!

You can choose not to buy it and wait for the normal release times.

    Misleading and pretty much daylight robbery. Such a shitty way to say you need to be privileged to have mass release.

    Xenamurai There are always people who would purchase Privileges. It's catered for those people, not everyone.

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        CKtalon It’s not catered to anyone, it’s not a service. It’s a scam selling 0 value item wich is already overpriced as hell for twice the price and intended user- group are essentially addicts.

            Xenamurai because that time you can earn at most 700 ss which could grant you a level of privilege. and if you had a bunch of account, you'll be able to access them for free resulting for that huge paywall you don't need to buy since it'll be released later anyway

                Reinesse Yeah, my point was that it was catered for someone, as opposed to "it's not catered to anyone" as Xenamurai claimed.

                    Tomoyuki That’s not what I said. To be able to cater to a person, you need to provide a service or a product. Privilige is not a product and neither a service that has value, you literally pay to pay twice. that us why you can’t cater to anyone, unless you actually have something to offer.

                        Tomoyuki So why a criminal fraud of getting intentional money from addicts, should replace honest suscribtions?

                            Xenamurai I was under the impression that privilege just means you pay more to get the Chapters earlier. So it's catering to those readers who don't want to wait for the chapters to be "officially" released and want to read them ahead of time.

                            For example, Story X has 100 normal chapters, 100 locked chapters. Readers can purchase the locked chapter for 10 SS each. Privilege readers, if they are willing to pay, get to read Chapters 201 to 300 ahead of the other readers, but obviously they'll be paying 20 SS for Chapter 201 onward for the privilege of early access. If you don't want to pay 20 SS and just 10 SS, then wait until the next day to unlock Chapter 201. A privilege reader, however, will just spend another 20 SS to unlock Chapter 301 at the same time you unlock Chapter 201 for 10 SS. That's how it works. Not sure why it's "criminal fraud." They are paying for exclusive, early access.

                            Isn't that a product? You get instant access or earlier access ahead of other people who don't pay. Exclusivity or early access is a product in itself. If you don't want to purchase it, that's your perogative.

                            That doesn't mean nobody is willing to pay for it, as...some people have shown.

                            Patreon has a similar system where donors who are of a different tier (for example, someone who donated $100 every month instead of $1) get exclusive and early access to locked chapters ahead of everyone else. Webnovel or Qidian is just copying Patreon's tier system. They even dialed it back a bit.

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