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.

      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.

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              Khana

              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.

                  Tomoyuki You really think i care? you’re really funny , another clown who likes to argue to random people since they are entitled to be right and can’t take negativity/criticism. Listen up, people will talk shit everywhere and you clowns are just feeding us more and more.

                      Zhinoy You've just admitted you don't have a leg to stand on, and are just here to stir the pot. All this time your wasting could be used to make yourself some money. smh...

                          Lilliny I don’t need legs to stand on when i am laying in bed:) and it’s holidays so i don’t have to work. That’s why i am here, kill some time, looking at these “contracted writers” jerking off each other on the forum.

                              Tomoyuki I mean he didn't deny anything so... I'm not gonna waste his time. He's just here to complain and whine, which is something he can do I guess. I honestly have no idea what this thread is about, the OP deleted his post or something. And then I scroll down and see sloth-man going on a rampage with numbers against skull-o-mania and I am just lost.

                              Are people mad they have to pay more? Or are they mad their money is getting them less? Or are they mad they can't read as much for free anymore? I... mean... just go check out a book? They're of higher quality and free.

                              Or write your own book! That would be pretty cool...

                                  Lilliny Sure, I'm always on the service!

                                  Zhinoy
                                  And you just admitted that you are nothing more than a troll.

                                  Just like Tomo said, you can despise contracted authors and I think I know the reason - because you are far too focused on being nobody to achieve anything in your life and gain any ground to speak as equal to us, hence your hate towards contracted authors.

                                  But shh, we get it. You are just trying to heal your inferiority complex by pouring all the sht that is inside your mind and soul on others, not realising that just like with cultivation, the more you move it around, the stronger it grows within you.

                                  :3

                                        MotivatedSloth And here ladies and gentlemen, you can see how the jerk session continues... but seriously though, I have nothing against contracted writers or writers in general, but i just can’t stand people who think they are above others by bashing them just because they are unhappy with certain things. Well let me ask you this, since WN brought out the latest update which will benefit the authors, have any of the authors gotten that benefit so far?

                                        My comments are mostly to shut people up, so stop with your ridiculous assumptions:)))

                                            Zhinoy

                                            Zhinoy i just can’t stand people who think they are above others by bashing them just because they are unhappy with certain things.

                                            I can't tell if you're unaware... of what you just typed. None of the authors here are unhappy with the changes... It seems like readers are the ones complaining right now. So, you just BTFO'd yourself.

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