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You guys got hella off topic real fast. Look we all know we are getting screwed. Their premium account set up was brilliant and it was good for all of us. However they chose to disengage it because of greed. All they've done with privellage is repackage the spirit stone system yo make some more. The fact of the matter is you do not spend as much on regular books as you do on qidian for a singular novel. However that isnt the authors fault. You have to realize the authors only get a percentage of the money QI gets the lions share. To make their writing worth while authors are forced to set high prices to maintain a steady income. My point is arguing semantics wont grt you anywhere. If your lucky they'll settle in the law suit but it wont change the over all bussiness model. If you want change everyone form wvery continent needs to act.
Someone earlier mentioned something about how a qidian chapter is worth not much in Chinese currency. Have you ever read that cooking novel where the chef gets the cooking system and opens up in modern day China (I forget the exact name I had to drop it for obvious reasons) I there is a part where the MC mentions how foreign customers must pay the same amount in their own currency. Say 100 yuan for a dish then for an American Ltd be 100 dollars. That is basically qidian at this time. All of the foreigners are getting screwed and frankly the nationalism is unfair to everyone else.
Those are my two cents.

Fiona_Singer Dear, I don't think the privileged systems is compulsory in the first place, if you don't want to buy, you can simply wait for general updates. It's as simply as anything.
The one who posted this stuff will loose more money than he had already lost if he takes this case to court, because it will be simply struck out.

zhiruyi with all due respect miss your not thinking wide enough. If this actually is presented to court and all then it probably will gain some ground. It isnt uncommon for differnt countries to treat foreigners with less respect with their own people which leads to cases like this. Ergo if derper has a good lawyer then the sky is the limit because it challenges international and trade agreements which makes for an intresting case for any feisty lawyer. I frankly believe it should go through even if just to fail, maybe QI will finally realize the passion their readers have.

Fiona_Singer Hang on! After paying for the chapters access expires after 2yrs? so it’s not permanent buy?

It is very bad that after paying for the previledge chapters you can not unlock the chapters you paid special money for

BigMike72 Hey, you’re probably right, I mean you do make a valid point - we did let our anxiety take control of our financial reasoning which is why we were sucked into paying over 200% more to read our favorite stories. But, as a victim let me say - you’re an a***, a super, duper a***! Have a nice life .

zhiruyi Hey! Nice to see you have time for this . Can you please get back to updating your novel now? At least I’m allowed access to that one.

KingDerp as long as they don't block it in other areas.

herokens idk why, but i cracked up on this one

NewCultivator calling cktalon

actually, there's this comic app i downloaded back then. after three chapters, it's hecking locked and there is no way to unlock it unless you pay for it. we are able to get around 175-250 free ss weekly. at least 45 chapters for novels with short chapters, around 25 for mid length chapters, around 15 for long chapters. for novels with short chapters, update rate is around 20 per week and you can manage reading two of them. for novels with mid length, 14 or less. for novels with long, 7. it's your choice whether you want to read a lot of novels or what. privileged chapters will still be unlocked eventually, you just have to wait.

you're gonna sue webnovel just because you bought something and you think it's too much. why don't you sue patreon too?

Bhy85 I think he's speaking nonsense or at least outdated information. I have chapters bought in late 2016 on Qidian, and it's still unlocked for me.

CKtalon

@Bhy85

Me too, i am here since 2017 and i don't need to buy a single chap again (exept for those that where relocked because they where free)

I think that that there may actually be a case for any novels where free access of paid chapters was revoked to place them behind premium (which some actually did). For example, before premium, 100 chapters were available, but after premium, only 50 are available while the remaining 50 were placed behind the premium wall. Another case is where purchasing the second month of premium does not provide any additional access from the first month because there were no additional chapters (completed novels that are not listed as such being the prime example, and missing translators being the other example).
If this case actually does lower prices, then kudos, but I suspect that it will simply cause the EU to not have access to Webnovel while increasing costs to consumers elsewhere in order to maintain profit margins.

zhiruyi you dont understand their tactics.....if novel you are reading is very interesting, you cant stop yourself from reading next chapter. At the same time author updated next chapter but you can only read as previl***** (some bullshit).

If reader dont reader next chapter knowing that it is available. It will ruin his/her day.

Its called mental torture.