• Qidian Official

  • Introducing the Premium program BETA, giving you advanced chapters!

immortal mortal is like near 300

    3 months later

    WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL Cheap my hat, you scam. Prices fluctuated for chapters constantly, even for the same chapters, dependent on your previous clicks, wtf!? Not to mention that the supposedly “free Chapter” and “Sign-in free Spirit stones” are all a farce/lie. There are no more free chapters for example: RTW; nor are there any daily sign in free spirit stones. I have been daily on this site for quite some time, but have only got some 5-6 free spirit stones in all that time...

        MingLi
        wow thats weird,
        normally you can get free SS every 24 hour if you click on the button "check-in", which appears if you hover over the profile picture on the website
        either you dont know that or just blatantly lying with your rant

        @WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL
        "advance chapter" - hur hur
        the chinese seem to like great walls, the great wall of china, the great firewall, the gread adwall, the great paywall what comes next?

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          13 days later

          For the past few months I bought SS just to see 2 premium novel. But recently I’m aware that almost half novel I follow became premium. I hope it’ll become free later or i might drop it. Few novel to pay is alright but if everything must pay, i better drop it. It’s not worth the money. With same amount of money i can bought 2 complete novel or 8-10 discount novel. Your pricing is just to much when i can buy complete novel to read while your story never end.

          I read someone post above that we can check free chapter in novel updates. Alchemy emperor of the divine dao in novel updates already release until ch.273 but i still stuck at ch.269. Are these because i pay for other novel and i can’t became free reader anymore?? I need answer

            Why can't there just be a monthly membership, that gives you unlimited chapters? I'd pay a monthly over having to spend upwards of $150 to read one story.

              11 days later

              Monthly subscription for the WIN!!
              $5 per month for up to 200-300 chapters
              $10 per month for unlimited chapters

              Or if there wont be an unlimited option at a reasonable price, at least keep all chapters older than 1 year free.... $100+ for 1 novel is just too much when most of us used read 10+ before they all went premium

              4 days later
              19 days later

              @WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL You are nothing but a pile of shit and i can't wait till your site loses all its viewers and money because people realise it costs 10x more to read one book then what the original cost, you are fucking retarded and deserve to have the site be taken down forever.

                VladdyPutin I don’t dislike webnovel since they’re a business; but it has hit a bit of a peak. Any further and they WILL push some loyal consumers away.

                Honestly I’m still shocked there are not more business popping up selling translations as actual physical books internationally (while expensive they’re great translations yet still cheaper than reading from beginning to end here at current word to SS rates.) For those who binge read this is by far a superior method yet it just lacks supply.

                stares into the distance dreaming of missed business opportunities since we spent all of our $ On SS

                    10 days later

                    SouthernWilds

                    A majority of novels are going premium to the point that you have to dish out basically over 30-100$ or more a month just to continue reading your favorite novels.

                    I basically ran out of spirit stones all free from check-ins plus from voting and it's still not enough to satisfy the 7-12 spirit stones per chapter and chapters are usually mass release by about 5-10 chapters or more.

                    The Lord's Empire (Gravity Tales), Reincarnation of the Strongest Sword God(Gravity Tales) used to be good novels until they went full on premium. so the only most decent video game type novels I can read is not on Qidian which is a good thing.

                    Even newer novels can become premium if their popular enough regardless of ranking.

                    So basically the Qidian website will become full-on premium in the future home to new novels and tons of premium only novels (costing spirit stones for every chapters including the 1st chapter, which I assume their going to do in the future to earn more money).

                        9 days later

                        im annoyed by the fact that they just locked like 100 plus chapters for certain novels,
                        like i had a bunch of novels i was just letting pile up chapters in my library so can come back and binge read after the
                        chapters piled up but now when i got back to the them i find out their locked.

                        Now it seems that any story that goes premium will get almost all there chapters locked so previously free and ad locked chapters cost stones even if you've already read them and from what I've seen after September there are no longer any free 1 a day chapters for premium stories.

                          LonyeiMagi they would not get first 40 chapters or first 100 000 words premium, cause they need to bait customers into the novel

                              WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL Seeing that a lot of chapters are locked and no longer can be unlocked by watching ads. Plus if I bought some chapters and I don't receive free unlocked chapters until the free chapters gets to where I ran out of SS. I need to wait a lot. Days, weeks, maybe months. With novels having 1000+ chapters, maybe years? For full-time translators. Not waiting for the authors to write their books. Your current business model is good for you, good for the translators, maybe the authors, but it is very bad for the readers.

                                  6 days later

                                  Gralorn I have stopped reading RTW in the beginning of august and still no free chapter have being unlocked since then so yeah i think free chapter are gone or i am so far in advance with the chapter i have unlocked that i still need to wait to for the free chapter to catch off... If it's the case i think it's pretty stupid because i am close to 100 chapters behind the last one released at the moment...

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                                      11 days later

                                      carfat A thousand times this. I have had two books that I had unlocked /MANY/ chapters only to end up relocking all of said chapters with no warning what-so-ever. Before I would pay to unlock again I would just read them elsewhere.

                                      Also, I just noticed a new problem, things I have unlocked on the mobile app are not unlocking when viewing from PC, same account of course.

                                          KoolAid I'm having the same problem, but I'm talking to CKtalon about it in this post ,
                                          he has asked dev's to look into this
                                          can I suggest you do as I did take screen pics and post them as to me this now seems to be a site-wide problem

                                          https://forum.webnovel.com/d/16884-unlocked-chapters-has-been-lock/24

                                          can i suggest you do as i did take screen pics and post them as to me this now seems to be a site-wide problem

                                              "Read in advance" apparently means "Block stuff that has been out for years already because money"...

                                                carfat Because they want your money.

                                                I'm honestly not surprised, they even locked down translations that have been out for a year or so, possibly even longer. Novels I've come back to catch up on have suddenly lost half their chapters behind a paywall, leaving me with less of the story than I had a year ago, even after I put in stones.

                                                Long story short, just skip this BS and pirate it from elsewhere (though don't do that for independent TLers!)

                                                    WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL I would happily support you, if not for the fact that every time I come here, even more chapters seem to be locked away while the ones I've unlocked are back behind a paywall again...

                                                    I've read 700+ chapters of RTW and yet I can now only read 350 or so...

                                                    Translations are supposed to go forwards as time goes on, not backwards.

                                                        a month later

                                                        RussIsWatchinU You also have to wonder how much the authors actually get payed, because you can watch ads to get stones ( and you get daily free stones) qui Dian would essentially be printing money for their authors if they got nothing from you buying a chapter. This makes me hesitate to buy SS because I would be basically paying for chapters and even more money than the initial "tax" that quidian probably takes off the top, is still ending up in quidians pocket, you would essentially be paying once to quidian to buy a chapter that the author won't even get the full value of the currency off. The free SS would also cause inflation resulting in more expensive chapters.

                                                            now, i know. based on mixing all the stuff i gound out, i think webnovel promised that they will translate for free but readers were the ones who suggested the premium stuff?

                                                            6 days later

                                                            I have problem witch cost of this program. I'm not living in USA, Canada or France, so because @WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL don't change price depend of region it's cost 2 times more than Netflix. I don't thin that you have enough content to justifie this price. Think about less wealthy countries. If @WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL change the pricing to around 20-30PLN I would buy this service.

                                                              2 months later

                                                              Ditt frankly it's uh super cheap as tjey premium member ship for a month is 24.99 usd thats right not 7.99 like everything else not 12.99 but a whole savings of 24.99 a month it's a freaking frankly cheap deal. I'm disapointed in the price and gonna continue to use the app to find novels and then read them some where else till they fix there bull*** its cheap prices. 33.99 CAD for 1 month id just way to much 12.99 is already a big limit for a sub of imo i mean not even anime subs are that pricey.

                                                                  I can't believe their premium is $24.99. I forgot to cancel it after the first month special deal so I'm stuck with it for another month. But you best believe I'll be cancelling asap! Like damn! Other sites similar to webnovel are around $9.99-$12.99 monthly. Amazon also offers kindle unlimited for $9.99 a month and they actually have a lot of translated Chinese novels too.

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