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(I have been thinking for a month to write a post with some positivity. I have noticed that the previous two main posts have some negativity. A NEW YEAR should be started with positivity. Yeah, yeah new year is over but what I am talking about is the Chinese New Year that will start this month. Someone made a thread here asking which Zodiac sign you are and I started looking into it..Based on the zodiac sign 2017 was a bad year for me and accurately it was true. 2017 sucks. Even the 5D4N competition I participated ended with a hassle and negativity. 2018 is supposed to struggling year but better...Hopefully)
I would like to express my sincere thanks to @WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL for their service they provided last year.
Thank you very much for creating this site.
Thank you very much for making the app. (I love this feature due to my frequent traveling)
Thank you very much for bringing many stories under one roof.
(Even though I encourage competitive business, I am thankfull for bringing many stories together to give me easier accessibility)
Thank you for spoon feeding us with 10chap/week to 21chap/week.
Thank you for making us greedy. (We who were waiting and satisfied with 7chap a day got greedy and started demanding MORE. Yes, we are all selfish and greedy treating everything as if they are meant to be for us and we are the boss. But I do expect Quality work)
Thank you for hiring translators and give them stable income regardless what novel they picked up.
(A translator is a hardworking gambler who earns big if he/she picked the right novel and may not if they did not. Even though the popular ones earn more but still the nonpopular should be earning something compared to before.)
Thank you for creating a forum that is easier to access and use along with the website.
(NU is great but having a good forum here is good. Met many people here and had fun. I WONDER WHEN THIS FORUM GET RID OF ITS BETA STATUS.)
And thank you for everything else I missed.
Now that's over I have a few questions and suggestions.
Now that the new premium is introduced, I want to say --I am not against it. But I want clarity.
When we talk about clarity @WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL you seriously made errors with that. Be it the implementation of programs, events I felt confused most of the times.
For example, BEYOND THE LANGUAGE competition and 5D4N--I wish you are there to answer to the confusions and questions in a systematic manner. Even now BtL competition is in the dark. Clarity is an issue.
So I suggest making an Offical only Q&A thread when an event is going on. Only the official post in it. They quote questions and answer it. In this way, people will not make multiple threads asking the same but instead should look at this thread.
Also, I prefer the officials being with us when some events are going instead of clarifying or defending later after the competition when a problem arises.
Also, the energy stone voting is like a gamble. So it would be better if you could a chap or two so we can vote on it more accurately.
Now I want to suggest the officials explaining and be honest with every detail or every negative effect behind an implementation.
Like when SS is turned to random. Just say we are going to make 9 or 10 SS as the middle for the random instead of usual 12. Please, 'please don't give this is to make it more exciting' reason. We have some intelligence. Be honest and if someone got a problem with you being honest, I will stand with you. Like me, there are many who are understandable and will stand with you.
In the premium implementation, it sounds good and pff also is great. But I hope you be honest with getting rid of second login SS.
I am little worried about the price of 8-13 SS a chap. Since free chapters are released, it is understandable you upped the SS required for a chap. Currently, with the bonus SS, 1SS is equivalent to 1 US cent. Without promotion, 1SS = 2US cent. It scares me that a chap is 16 cents. It does balance out with pff.
Since the introduction of premium patreon system will be prohibited I guess. So, I would like to know how much cut the translator and the author makes from this. It is a wrong question to ask but I am curious if this premium system is similar to the Chinese system Qidian has like 50-50.
A story to end like usual.
I don't care about WW or webnovel or how much translators make, but I am concerned about original authors. In my opinion they should be making money from this.
An author is like a farmer who makes stuff. In China the Shop directly sells them. Regardless of whether every farmer makes money or not, the shop earns their portion to bring it to the market. But to bring it internationally, they shop require the assistance of transporters or traveling merchants. The traveling merchants who did it for fun, duty or money are gathered together and hired with the rest warned not to sell.
The merchants get their extra earning mainly depending on how well the good they are selling are received by the consumers.
Here the merchant and shop are safe. I wonder how much the farmers get from the sale.
The news of @WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL giving the opportunity to original authors is inspirational and exciting. I wonder how they cope with the selling merchants who can sell 14items a week. Producing is hard hmm. Also, I wonder how premium works for them. Think well and implement well. And be with us.
Thank You, everyone
KiBiBiK
