@yaoyueyi would you mind to pin this one? This is very important discussion.
A list of dropped translated Qidian novels.
@WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL i know you won't bother to reply. Your silence is renowned throughout the three worlds.
Well to give an example Beauty and the Bodyguard has been "paused" a few days ago. From what I can gather if a novel is low in the rankings QI/webnovel pauses it and it has nothing to do with the TL. How pausing a novel is meant to make it more popular is a bit of a mystery since presumably as releases stop it becomes less popular and then more likely to be paused. It's also unclear if it's temporary or permanent as naturally there is no announcement.
Actually as far as the lack of announcement goes there are probably three aspects. First of all if TL wants to resume the project saying the QI/webnovel has told them to stop releasing due to lack of popularity is likely to lose readers. Secondly it's also possible that they've made an announcement but it's stuck behind the privilege paywall. Thirdly QI/webnovel never makes announcements they think will be unpopular as saying "We've decided to drop series XXXX as it's not making enough money" won't go down well. Added bonus of saying nothing is TL might get blamed instead and as TLs have signed contracts that prohibit them from criticising QI/webnovel they can't defend themselves.
As a reader you want to know if the novel has been dropped as there's no point investing time and in some cases money into a webnovel that will end halfway through it. On the other hand for QI/webnovel it's in their interests to extract any bit of revenue from a dead novel so there is no benefit to them warning users that they'll never reach the end as it's been dropped.
Daoist_Zheng No, sorry. Generally, only threads that deal with important announcements/things that users should see right away when they click onto the forum are pinned. Also, the first post (what is generally the most important post in a thread) is outdated, and I don't want misinformation to be spread. Therefore, I don't really see this thread as something that needs to be pinned. Apologies.
Somebody gotta make a thread called grave for dead novels, and pinned it
Somebody gotta make a thread called grave for dead novels, and pinned it
Rocketduh Qidian and Webnovel don’t actually care about their customers, they would much rather steal translations from other sites or push out poorly translated MTL. I’m so over it
Rocketduh Qidian and Webnovel don’t actually care about their customers, they would much rather steal translations from other sites or push out poorly translated MTL. I’m so over it
yaoyueyi youre a mod, is Way of the Devil dropped?
yaoyueyi youre a mod, is Way of the Devil dropped?
wierdyjoe69 I'm just a forum moderator, not WN staff.
Imperiestro evolving like this we'll hit the stone age soon enough!
NoAnimeNoLIfe their big idea is: we might give you sh!t but please continue to pay us without any complain!
Extra2567 I'm not going to add a book that is missing the ending chapter onto the list. That's just not worth mentioning.
Not to mention the novel was "eunuched" by the author. (Cut off by the author.) All the more reason to not mention it.
In my opinion, it makes sense not to continue translating a novel that gets it's ending rushed because author decided to f*** it or just dropped outright for no reason.
Y'know I'm actually tempted to like list trial novels here as well since we all know it'll take years before they are remembered by webnovel staff. Or just the ones that are actually good and not generic copy of other novels. After all, gems existed in the trial that get ousted from the trial since other generic novels have support from "whale" fans. (I'm sorry but they do exist.) Although I understand that novels are only chosen for how much money they can generate, I'm willing to say that a majority of the users of webnovel do not pay for coins and rely on fast passes for novels. It's also hard for a gem to be picked since only the first 60 chapters are translated and seeing how most chinese novels go past 1000, 60 chapters doesn't help unearth the next lord of the mysteries.