I think it is time to move on from the webnovel forever.
TL_Shay First, I did say the math was wrong.
Oh come on, lemme indulge! Math is the only way to prove something to majority of the kids on the forums.
TL_Shay Second, regardless of free chapters, bonus SS, et al, I still spent 110 USD on half of a webnovel.
While I find that unlikely, it is true that WN shuffles their offers, promotions and prizing to the point I can't even follow (shrugs). But 110$ is still far off 500$ mentioned at the start of Darksomething rant
TL_Shay Third, I also said I didn't regret it.
Good for you then? I'm glad you enjoyed it!
TL_Shay Fourth, why bring up sexism when none was stated in the first place? o.O
Oh, come on! Others are allowed to rant all they want because the amount of literall free candy got smaller, but I can't bring anything as nonsensicial into it?
TL_Shay Fifth, almost killing yourself by eating that diet is not a good argument. XD But I'm happy you survived it.
Thanks, was kinda tight on budged and sick from oversmoking green tobacco. Cons of working 2days/week in Uk :D
Gourmet_DAO i can. Wuxiaworld :). Wattpad. Amazon (they actually have some old faves you can get for free).
Darth_Xiane I honestly gotta ask, do you promote selective reading or are you just THAT much of a mook.
Ad personam, not gonna bother. That's below my level.
Darth_Xiane First off you jumped down MY throat about self entitlement
Imagine this scenario, you buy a car and demand a whole house to be included, despite the price clearly stating that its only for car.
Does buying a car makes the company owe you a house? No.
That's why even if you paid anything, you still aint entilted to any freebies, you can only count on WN generosity to recieve it.
Darth_Xiane You also threw alot of other accusations my way and I'M the conceited one?
The first time I even noticed your existance was when you replied to my first big post while calling me names.
Sorry, but just like I said in many other topics, I don't care about the entirety of the topic and I'm either replying DIRECTLY to the people mentioned, or to the general theme of the topic if I don't mention anyone. Sorry, but in my eyes, you weren't even worth the effort to insult for no reason, like, playing around with math is way funnier for me. That only shows how much you overestimate your worth. Sorry to break it up to you.
So to sum this point up - I didn't even mention you, yet you feel insulted for some reason and started insulting me? Yes, you are the conceited one.
Darth_Xiane selective reading pissant
Again, ad personam, why do I even bother? Eh...
On WN, I'm reading only 3 books. WHen they will be finished, I might move to others. Why? Because as someone with actual life, duties, and chapters to write, I simply don't have enough time to waste so much time on low quality story that are good as mindless entertainment. If I want to read something good, I'm just looking up the list of good authors that I love and buy one of their books, simple. But looking how you act, I think I can safely bet that I read WAY more stories in my life than you did (considering how I used to read 3-4 books WEEKLY, back before I even graduated middle school. While the quality was nonexistend for big part of them, I still love some of them to this day.)
So all in all, calling me selective reader is kinda wrong in the very meaning of those words. And all the insults that you are packing your posts full? Well, that only shows who you are, not who I am.
Darth_Xiane leaves me less than respectful.
It's our own actions that define who we are and how we will be taken by others. If someone steals from you, that doesn't entilte you to steal from others. Even if I ever insulted you, if you fight back in this way, you are showing that you are on that level. ANd just FYI - I never did insult you, because you are not worthy as much of my attention as to care about abusing someone like you.
Darth_Xiane motivationalmook and shove your holier than thou opinions UP YOUR ASS.
Come on! You paid so much for the wn books, so you ought to read a lot! I believe you can come up with something more creative!
All in all, thanks for providing the entertainment for the authors discord and my own, hidden discord community. You even won 2 spots in the hall of fame!
Zhinoy he is entitled to be always right
If I'm wrong, I will always admit it. Back in Einlion thrashing days, I even outright told that my entire argumentation could be overthrown by a single line of text, as long as one figured it out. IN this thread alone I admited to 3 mistakes that I made. Anything else to say Mr. Patointeligent?
Zhinoy this Sloth is defending WN against any negativity
Nope. I don't care about the changes in WN schemes. I'm a free user so no matter how much I hate it myself, they have the right to shove anything they want down my throat, but it's up to me to swallow it or not. I'm only negative towards people that think they are entilted to anything. That's what pisses me off, because I need to deal with this kind of mentality everywhere out in the streets of my country.
Want to understand it?
Some time ago, governing party implemented like ~130$ monthly for every child. You just need to go to the office and you will recieve it. Now, single mothers who never dirtied their hands with work are demanding to create a new taxes for childless people and increase this social program to ~260$ because they are entilted to it.
First hour that I'm working in fulltime goes fully for that program right now. That quickly teaches you to hate it.
Zhinoy entitled cause they are free readers
Calling others entilted because they act entilted. I'm free reader myself, game over.
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MotivatedSloth You talk alot, maybe it’s time for you to create your own story here on WN, who knows it might be a good hit. As far as i know, people like you are pretty amusing, literally jokes, the clowns of arguments here on the forum.
Anyway i will let u be, talking to people who writes a book as a reply isn’t my cup of tea.
This thread is both disheartening and funny to read at the same time. This truly does not matter at the end of the day. Soulless Corporations will do whatever they can to make $$$ (they have that right as well). Just like readers and users of this platform can express their sentiments on any new policy or idea Qidian makes. If said company does not take heed of current sentiments, it will eventually fall behind the trends and fall into irrelevancy. Do not belittle the free readers on this site as they make up a large majority of the numbers, that keep this ship up and running. Overall, I don't care enough about this site or company to have any strong feelings on the matter. So I'm going to continue to read what I feel, makes my day. Regardless of any restrictions Webnovel places.
MotivatedSloth
Actually I probably can read that fast. I don't really read word by word when I read novels, specially so if i'm in mood. Its not bland monotone academical text that needed to read every single alphabet to make sense anyway. I still remember binge reading 2000+ chapter novel in 5 days recently. I won't argue your other arguments though because i don't buy coins. Dollar is effing expensive where i live 1=2700....
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MotivatedSloth No offense but the bonus is not for everyone, only for third world countries apparently. Outside of the current Christmas bonus, I get 0 bonus coins on a purchase (30% before they removed even those bonus coins), so yeah for me it is 0,02€ per coin and it is very expensive as I can't unlock my premium chapters with fast passes.
If they don't discount coins permanently or drastically reduce premium level prices I will simply stop buying premium and abuse fast passes. I used to have enough of 50€ per month to read my 3 novels where I have premium (total 5 chaps a day ~40/45coins + 3100 coins of premium level) by combining the monthly rebate + 2500(+750bonus) coins bought + the daily free ss (25/35). Now if they remove every way to get bonus coins without increasing what you can get by paying (even decreasing it) well I will just stop paying.
In the end, everyone loses out of this deal.
750coins bonus out of 50€ purchase : gone
25/35 free coins daily from check in/votes/ads total ~830 coins per month : gone
35 free coins weekly from reading activity total 140 per month : gone
Monthly rebate on premium expenditures 1085coins : gone? I don't know yet, but I highly doubt they will keep it since they even removed purchase bonuses.
Total, as a paying user, I lose ~2800 coins compared to the previous month. So saying that this update doesn't affect paying users is being delusional, we are by far the most affected by this update.
I've always been a supporter of the idea that nothing should be free, but let's face it, asking paying user to pay even more while there is a lot of free users who abuse multi accounts and friend invites to get everything for free is a dick move.
They should simply remove every single way to read for free past chap 100 and put a 10/15€ monthly subscription.
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DarkRay Well... that's true. I've got readers reading my 650k word novel in FIVE DAYS, that means, she conquered 130k words per day.
Rak0 True, some people can binge-read really fast or for dozens hours straight. I read Harry Potter Book 5 in 2 days, but I think people who read so much like us are not the rule, but the exception.
Missrealitybites we are special
Fuck now. I'm an abnormality in a variety of things
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It's nice to know that Poland is considered 3rd world country then xD
Just a joke though, I actually do realise that our currency is sht, so it would be hard on us to actually pay more.
It was on my mind for a while to do the price comparasion, where I would leave WN in terms of SS, so everyone could calculate it for themselves, while dissecting prices of other sites, books or even amazon.
And as far as I know, they intend to slowly introduce the subscribtion back, they just need to figure out a way for it to not affect the smaller authors.
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Pretty good Christmas time entertainment...
Don't stop, I've got another 22 hours until my Christmas is over...