Kasaix This is what issue with the priveleged system is. It's fine if it's a system for reading ahead in advance, but the way they're using it for I Might Be A Fake Cultivator is pretty much extortion. They're going to leave us hanging for god knows how long & the only other choice is the pay a few thousand spirit stones for the right to pay for the chapters.

It is simply ridiculous that we have to pay for the right to spend money

In pateron you only pay once and the chapters are yours to read

In webnovel you have to pay twice. First for the so called privilege, and then a second time to actually buy the chapters.

    We'll find out after a month if people are actually paying to buy this "privilege" since it's become quite apparent that those who bought it this month were fooled into buying it.

    Wow! I saw the privilege thing, but haven’t check it out yet. They can’t be that ridiculous right?! I think that why my favorite novel has not updated for 11 days.

    Edit: seriously qidian, that is really too much!

      yearafteryear Probably stockpiling for privilege chapters which is absurd since they already said it won't affect regular releases. The novel i'm reading slowed down his release rate probably to stockpile privilege chapters too. Went from 3chapters a day to 2.

        I really like to read a lot so 2 chapters are not enough for me, but I won’t buy the privilege if they don’t change it. I don’t want to pay twice the price for a chapter. Usually I don’t pay for the chapter if it’s more than 5SS because that’s really expensive. Comics are also expensive 13 ss, did you notice that recently the prices are getting higher?
        Back to the privilege, i saw that the privilege ends at the end of the month, does that mean if someone payed on the 20th it will only last 10 days?
        Second if you pay 2500 it will unlock 50 more chapters, and then?
        If someone paid this extravagant price to unlock the 50 chapters then do they have to wait 25 days to get another 50 chapters? Doesn’t that betray the aim of the privilege??
        I think this privilege thing needs lots of editing

          Sos91 You are right! The price are getting higher. Before, History number 1 founder a chapter only cost 4 Spirit stones. Now, a chapter cost more 10 spirit stones.

            yearafteryear isn't the amount of stones you use to pay for chapters based on word count or something? At least that's what I saw sonewhere... idk tho not 100% sure.

              Sos91 The daily releases still continue on for both privileged & non-privileged users. And I believe that there's no fixed number of chapters for privileged & there's no fixed price either. It's left to the translator/author to decide how many they provide & for what price (or so I've heard, but take this with a pinch of salt since Webnovel hasn't given a proper explanation as to how it works).

              Some have implemented this system properly while some have screwed up grandly (in my opinion atleast).

              I hope they update the Book of Answers with the details.

                The advanced chapter system is applied everywhere outside WN. Take WW for example, A Will Eternal highest tier was about 160$ a month! I am sure that there are higher prices for some other novels, but no one complained.
                Why? Because you don't have to subscribe to enjoy the novels (unlike premium). You would still get daily updates and mass releases.

                  non_refert I don’t think so, because usually the same novel will have more or less same size of each chapter, but a few days ago I paid 10ss while I usually pay 3-4 for each chapter. I was shocked. I made the setting automatic but that chapter made my heart bleeds the whole day

                    Lordyken They will make more money with the privilege scam than they would by increasing the already outrageous prices for SS.

                    As for the elite membership system, it was NOT too good of a deal for readers. It was the ideal solution. It made more contenr available to the readers and allowed them to start gifting their free SS to their favorite authors. This in turn increased the authors revenue. It was only the poor stories (or poorly translated) ones that saw a decrease in revenue. This was good as it encouraged quality.

                    However, the memberships allowed WN to see how desirable their product was and thus they dropped the system in order to make more money themselves. A single "whale" is more profitable than 100+ normal customers.

                    Pokko There's a reason for this. The authors in China were dissatisfied with how things worked on Webnovel, which used to work a bit differently from Qidian. But that still doesn't change the fact that we're made to pay more than what is charged in China & that too for sub-standard translations (for the most part, though the quality has improved quite a bit now).

                    Cantiara yeah but it seems either the author or translator like to add redundant words for the sake of increasing word count.
                    For example:
                    - in cultivation novels they kept explaining the same skill again and again. They kept spamming these long ass skill names.
                    - in gaming novels they kept showing the status screen and skill details with only minor to no changes at all every few chapters. Sometime these status took up half the chapter.
                    - in foods novel they keep describing the same cooking processes over and over again and sometimes too much details.
                    - in superstars or entertainment novels they freaking wrote part of or even the whole songs into the chapter. Songs that was available online.
                    - in medical novel they describe the same treatments in detail countless time and sometimes an illness' treatment took hundreds of chapters and each chapters described the same treatment processes.

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