I used to be a elite member and indeed it was too good a deal for readers, so i wasn't surprised when webnovel cancelled the whole thing

However.... now this privilege system is the opposite, its too horrible a deal for readers. Ridiculous prices are being charged for the "right to buy" more chapters ?

If we take this logic further down the road, maybe in future we the readers will need to pay money for the privilege of downloading webnovel app and accessing webnovel app

If you want more money then just directly increase spirit stone prices for new chapters, this will at least encourage translator and authors to dedicate more time into producing new content

With the privilege system, there is 0 incentive for authors/translators to produce content faster and 0 actual benefits for the reader since this "privilege of buying new chapters " has been given free from the beginning of the app.

Furthermore what if the reader refuses to spend money on this stupid privilege? Then he wont be able to buy anymore chapters and authors will get less income!

This is why the privilege system is so counter-productive. It actually stops readers from buying more chapters....why would you want this ?

My humble suggestion... If you want more money, just directly increase the price of chapters

    I both agree and don't agree at the same time. You see i see privilige as the old patreon pages of the authors and the translators. Where you could read stuff ahead of time. Something that was optional for the obsessed but not really necessary for the normal readers who could just wait for the normal updates. But now they have taken things too far. 2 of the novels I read gone priviliged MMO pierce heaven till it breaks and Godly prodigical system. In both of those you could pay money to read 50 ch ahead. Its cool I still had my normal release rate and kept on reading according to that but today another novel I read went priviliged and it was a disaster. The Novel is called i Might be a fake cultivator. I had read up to chapter 104 and was up to date but when I effing woke up I saw that it was free till ch 56 and the rest of the 50 ch are priviliged like wtf. You have taken the chapters I have already read and made them a privilige? For me who have already read it? Like isnt premium enough now instead of advance chapters u are going to make the old chapters privilige and alieante the readers for 2 montbs or force them to buy privilige if the want to read?

      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 havenā€™t check it out yet. They canā€™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 wonā€™t buy the privilege if they donā€™t change it. I donā€™t want to pay twice the price for a chapter. Usually I donā€™t pay for the chapter if itā€™s more than 5SS because thatā€™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? Doesnā€™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 donā€™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).

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