Nizze ads, half-premium, premium, subscription, privilege, fast pass/membership and all those reduce of ss in betweens... I can’t really complain now because after all the changes QI have made, I’m still a free user through and through lmao.

I’m just getting sad now that you mention all of it... It all started with watching ads and now... sigh

It’s a good thing that I’m only reading 1 novel now here. Currently just reading KR and JP outside...

      burntpotato im also a free user and would never pay for it. i dont really mind buying a book but that amount you would have to pay to read some of these novels are way too much. im currently reading 4 novels on this site and its just impossible now to do so. you might get away with 2 novels but anymore is impossible to read now as a free user. as Nizze said, its fully time to transition to other sites that have their translations

        It really is ridiculous. I'm literally down to 1-2 novels to read.

          Matirion i couldn't agree more holy shit lmao
          the new update is really getting on my nerves ngl. like, you're seriously going to give me 10 points for reading 960 minutes? Amazing, i'm totally motivated to read on your app now. The websites going to die and I'm going to laugh

            burntpotato honestly I’ve lost count of how many novels I stopped reading because of lack of SS... I’m also a free user. I refuse to spend money on this app for one reason. I am not buying the novels. I’m buying access to them. And if one day Webnovel decides to shut down the app or site I won’t have those novels. I’ve been there already on a game that shut down and the feeling of having spent money on something and suddenly losing it like that is not nice.
            So I feel unsure about spending on Webnovel, even more so with how the disregard users. After all those novels are not books that I’ll have forever. Heck, is not even like ebooks that you download and have the pdf for yourself...
            So yeah... I get paying for access like Netflix and Spotfy... but that’s not really how Webnovel works right? Is more like having access to them and then paying per episode watched or music listened... well overpaying for them in Webnovel’s case... so yeah will keep being a free user and supporting my fave novel... but cant guarantee I’ll keep using it as much as before... there's other ways to pass time besides novels...

                Best way to give web novel/quidian the middle finger is to drop them. They seem to be dead set on making people do this anyways. Been a loyal free reader for years and been through all the transitions they shoved down my throat. But enough is enough. Gonna probably drop them when my stones run out and my passes dry up. Moving to a new platform then. Unfortunately most original stories are not on it yet. Slowly they will get the collection though.

                And I suppose no one here spared a thought for the authors that have been churning out content for everyone?

                I assume they can feed themselves on facebook likes and comments as well?

                  Everybody knew from the beginning that the aggressive economic spirit of Q did not bode well for the future. When everything is said and done it, the question remaining is "Should I abandon ship?"
                  My answer would seem to be "Yes"

                    Draekai dude... really? From someone who’s here for almost t 2 yrs...
                    1- They don’t really give a 💩 about authors. Want to know how I know? For 2 years they are saying the same thing. We are trying to make you guys pay more so we are able to pay authors and translators. Every time. Every change. Also who are you kidding? The authors main revenue comes from the Chinese version.
                    2- As I said, the older users came here exactly out of respect for the authors. Because this is the “official channel”. We came for this. Stayed for this. But webnovel’s not helping us much. And if free readers are really worthless as compared with paying ones, as you said in other post, then why are you worried if they use webnovel or not?
                    3- Try reading the other posts in this thread. Maybe than you’ll get what we are complaining about.

                        This pay thing not only here even ww become the same u have to pay for complete novel pretty much money money for every thing poor users can't read any more , the new fast pass useless when u earn 30, 40 SS every day was better so thing goes from bad to worse for free users 😒

                          This pay thing not only here even ww become the same u have to pay for complete novel pretty much money money for every thing poor users can't read any more , the new fast pass useless when u earn 30, 40 SS every day was better so thing goes from bad to worse for free users 😒

                            I’m not digging the new rewards either. It feels like they are trying to nickel and dime the readers.

                            Nizze You are not a contracted author, you have no right to speak on our behalf. Have you received a contract like the rest of us, then? Where does it say in the contract that our main revenue comes from a "Chinese version"?

                            I - and most of the other contracted authors, if I'm not mistaken - don't care if people want to read our stories for free. But we get mad when entitled readers start talking about how they are going off to read our stories on pirated sites. Look, man, if you don't want to read our stories, that's fine with us. If you can't afford to read our stories, we can sympathize (but we can't do anything about that because we dedicate hours to writing, and we need to put food on the table and pay rent). But don't go promoting pirate sites that literally steal our stories and post them elsewhere without our permission.

                            And I have read the other posts. It sounds like, "HOW DARE THEY GIVE US LESS FREE STUFF THAN BEFORE?!" As if they were ever obligated to give free stuff to begin with. "Oh, you give us less free stuff? You swapped the free coins/spirit stones for free passes, which I hate? Then I will give you guys the middle finger by going off to pirated sites!"

                            Imagine if McDonald's started off by giving free burgers. As the consumer base grew, the demands for burgers rose, the operating costs, the required ingredients, staff and manpower necessary to cook/provide them, etc. also increased. It was no longer sustainable to give free burgers. So they start charging people for the burgers while giving free fries instead. Then now the "customers" who have been eating burgers for free all this time fly into a rage and start screaming about how they will go eat burgers from another vendor, who has actually been stealing burgers from McDonald's. That's what is happening here.

                            Just because someone has been giving you free stuff all this time doesn't mean they are obligated to do so forever. You are not obligated to pay them or buy their products, but that doesn't mean they are obligated to continue providing free goods to you forever.

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