LostInFictions Ah, thanks. I use this forum as nothing more than a practice, before I will actually go out of my way and create something of a diary in form of a novel, when I will change one letter in their names and show their attitude to other readers out there, who can't be bothered to visit this toxic forum.

Since people like to watch other people acting dumb, showing half of this forum comunity to them will only be STONKS

    Rak0 Ah, sure, my bad here. Seeing the forum floaded with complains made me kinda biased to this thread already, my bad here.

      LostInFictions hmm true true... what about in my threads lol. Jk jk. Everything I say online I have already said in real life for the most part. Expect the wood dilemma that is a forums exclusive lol

        God damn yall pulling out the maths up in here ;)

          Math my nemesis. 🧐

            MotivatedSloth Tell me, why should i spend money on something that i have no guarantee to be at an acceptable quality? If quality is shit, i dont even know how to get my money back. Do you go to restaurant, order food, pay, receive shit and then eat that literal shit?

              Heyyou But then, you don't get your money back either at the restaurant unless the restaurant owner is saint enough to offer the customers their money back if they didn't like the food. You can choose to leave the shit as you call it but you cannot not pay for what you have ordered there. That's not how it works.

              As far as Webnovel is concerned, you do get an idea if the novel will work for you or not from the first couple of chapters. Besides that, correct me if I am wrong - but as far as I know, you unlock one chapter at a time. So it's not that you are spending your entire money on one particular novel. The moment you start disliking it, leave it and switch to something else. Isn't that how it works?

                LostInFictions

                Furthermore, premium novels don't charge from the first chapter. The first 50-100 chapters are usually free, it's to give readers the chance to check out if the novel is for them. As for me personally, 25 chapters are enough to know whether or not to ditch a novel.

                  Heyyou Let's say I go to a restaurant. I see this new thing on the menu and I order it. Turns out that it's too spicy for me, or I didn't like the taste, or it's too oily/greasy. What do I do? I either force myself to eat it (because I don't want to waste it) or I just waste it by throwing it away and not eating it. Then I pay for the food.

                  I don't go and tell the waiter, "I'm not going to pay because I don't like the food." That's not how it works. If you do that, you get arrested for dine and dash.

                  If I go to a bookshop and buy a book, and I end up being disappointed by it (and believe me, there are a lot of books that are pretty bad, even though they supposedly go through professional editing), I don't go back to the bookshop the next day and demand for a refund. That's not how it works. If I buy an amazon novel and find out that the quality is terrible (and again, I have seen a lot of self-published Amazon novels that clearly lack a professional editor), I don't go and claim a refund. That's not how it works either. I can't lodge a complaint and demand a refund based on "I don't like the book" or "the quality is bad." Not unless the book is torn, tattered, the words are illegible and the print smudged, or the mobi file that I downloaded from Amazon into my Kindle is corrupted or tainted with a virus, I have no grounds to claim any sort of refund based on "the quality of the story is bad" or "I hate the story."

                  If I go to a video shop and buy a DVD, I can't just go ask for a refund just because I thought that was a terrible movie that was horribly directed. I can only ask for a refund if the DVD was broken and it doesn't play on my player. I can't demand for refunds just because I hate the movie and think it was trash. It doesn't work that way.

                  So your example completely backfired on you.

                  Furthermore, why the hell are you using spirit stones to unlock a story you consider as "s" quality? The first 100 or so chapters are free, and if you've read enough of them, you should know whether they are worth investing your spirit stones/coins in. The f are you doing, investing coins in a story you know to be "s" quality, and then complaining about it? I don't go complain about having to pay $12 to watch Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker if I don't like the movie. I just don't go to the cinema and watch the movie, simple. I don't go to Disney and bitch to them about "why should I spend money on a movie that's certain to be terrible?" - only a super entitled "fan" will spout such rubbish. Furthermore, you probably realize how stupid you sound when you start whining about how people should be allowed to watch movies for free and only pay for it if they like it. No, that's not how it works. It costs money to make a movie. A lot of money. And the people working in the cinema, selling tickets and popcorn, cleaning up the theater after every viewing, running the projectors, etc. also need to be paid.

                  Cantiara That's exactly my point. Let's say you couldn't figure out if it will work for you or not despite having read over 100 chapters and you get disappointed by the time you reach 110th chapter. Now what? Are you stuck? Did you waste your money on a novel that you think didn't deserve your SS? No, right? You can leave the novel whenever you want. Whenever you want. If there was a case like you had to buy the entire novel if you were willing to read it - then this outburst would have been justified. In present circumstances - it isn't - at least it doesn't seem that way to me!

                  As of now, $9.99 would able for you to get (without the bonus) around 250 chapters for novels/fanfic and around 38 chapters for comics. This can be less or more depending on the price of the coins for unlocking chapters.

                    The_Cheese

                    $9.99 (500 coins) for 250 chapters of a novel is incorrect unless your calculation is based on 2 coins per chapter, which no premium novel will ever offer. Since around a month ago contracted original authors are required to write a minimum of 1000 words per chapter. That's a minimum of 5 coins, because 1 coins = 200 words. So, based on a 5 coins chapter, $9.99 can get you 100 chapters of a novel. Fanfics are always free, they can't make money out of fanfics because of copyrights issue. Your calculation for comics is right because a chapter of comics always costs 13 coins.

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