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You know the previous subscription program made sense even if you need to revamp it and increase the cost. But this bullcrap is unbelievably stupid for us to have to pay for early release of chapters and then also have to pay again to read the chapters. It cost 50$ us dollars to even get roughly 3k spirit stones. Too unlock 20 chapters for some books it cost that much and then to have to pay for each chapter on top of that might as well throw in another 5 to 10 us dollars. I really liked the sub program because, it allowed me to go from spending 100$ to 200$ a month to alot less. I love to read and I sometimes have 2k mins or more a week into just reading books on this app. But if you keep implementing programs like privileges the cost is going to be keep going up. It would be cheaper for me to learn Chinese and buy the books directly then keep paying for translations.
Privilege chapters my thoughts.
It's not a replacement of subscriptions. It's just another choice provided to readers (who are willing to spend that much).
Translated books that were chosen to be placed on Privilege have huge stockpiles and regular releases, so that will prevent any disruption in the usual releases for the average reader. Privilege is just meant for the fervent reader who is willing to pay to read ahead of their peers.
Not a replacement for subs? In language and details maybe.
But if you read between the lines, it comes down to the same thing no? Pay us more, read more. The cheapskates can go fuck themselves.
CreamPuffDelights Not at all. The purpose of Elite subscriptions was meant to let readers read more variety/books, while Privilege is to let a reader read more of the favorite book(s) they like.
Benjamin_xD Best thing to do is to avoid giving WebNovel anymore money and let your money do the talking as a consumer. Whether they justify it as "it's just another alternative" or not, you can probably see that it's got a lot of shady mechanics at play (TL;DR version - Exploiting those impatient enough to a long binding cycle of more payments).
Also look to their past claims (ex: Premium Beta Program). Convenient for them to get rid of Patreon that already existed, by banning translator(s) who used it for the same purpose, while omitting other features Patreon offered. Milestones offered for reaching a certain amount of support so everyone (including the public releases) gets a increased release rate per week to increased mass releases. Ignoring the other benefits Patreon-based advanced chapters gave, now WebNovel just took the system and made it worse because you have to pay again after you unlock the privilege to see the titles of the locked chapters.
CKtalon I would rather wait for the priveledge chapters to be stale after a while though.
Benjamin_xD I would rather wait for those chapters to go stale a fter awhile and make use of regular ss to unlock the chapters instead.
Its a form of money making for the writers and translators and I felt it was too much to seodn exorbitant amount of cash just to have priveledge releases based on our support.
CKtalon
I understand the concept but it's a crazy steep price gouge to pay for the privilege access itself and then the unlock rates per chapter on-top of that which is causing the disgruntled feeling .... Rather than make it a 2-step transaction (access fee and then unlock fees), making it a single 'payment' would probably result in less frustrations even if that meant increasing the upfront cost to accomodate the average chapter cost (so readers could evaluate the cost/benefit of opting for privileges completely upfront ....
I imagine you would also feel some dissatisfaction if you paid an admittance fee for a movie premier only to be told you still had to pay another fee to get into the viewing theatre or to get a viewing seat when the details related to the movie ticket made it seem you could watch the movie once you bought the ticket ....
The lack of clarity and transparency on the privilege purchase page makes it seem like false advertising and the fine print details only vaguely explain the paying the chapter unlocks remains valid after/once regular release occurs .... Instead, there should be a clear statement that SS to unlock chapters still apply to each particular tier of advanced chapters privilege option.
Benjamin_xD I agree better learn Chinese and read them in their original books. Personal benifit also by learning a new language.
I subscripted privilege reader 400ss but upon unlock the chapter, it still deducts from my previous SS. Is it double charges? It's too expensive!
Benjamin_xD agreed on learning Chinese