Zhinoy This is the thing. Readers are thinking they have been cheated and this is like the most unfair thing that could happen to them when in reality, they are the least affected ones compared to writers.

People are thinking that WN is dumb, foolosh, this and that but in my opinion, WN has played very smart and I kinda appreciate them.

Now, with the limited unlocking options, people would go more for the free novels. People have this notion that contracted stuff is levels up than the non-contracted ones and now with this move, people, who wanna stick to WN, sooner or later would be more inclined towards non contracted stuff because they would be able to read after exhausting their coins and free passes and stuff.

This way, non-contracted novels would get exposure, and WN would want to offer them contracts. Now again, there would be a crazy competition even in the contracted novels because readers would have no choice but to pick their most favorite ones and would have to let go of others because of the limited coins. Once got attached to the novels, a bunch of readers would find it hard to resist and would end up buying coins.

Webnovel has played smart in every way.

      Yeah,i might drop webnovel as well...they bring many novels ,but after 20-ish chapter,they gone premium.Fast pass don't work on every novel.Shamless money grubers

      LostInFictions Not pleasant and unwise. A reader is a reader. You still get a boost of votes, comments and reviews. Whether someone reads for free or not, those things are for free. The more votes you have the higher ranking right, so free users are needed. (Besides, every free user is a potential paying customer. You never know).

      As for the contracted writers/authors? I will skip on that. I can cause another shitstorm here, which is not needed. So yea, free readers are really useful, they have the right to voice their opinions and fell about it that way. I mean, if no one voiced their opinions, they could basically do anything they want. People always fought for their ideas, so I don't condemn that. (Lack of communication from officials is not helping those readers much).

          LostInFictions Yeah it’s pretty much a ideal setup for WN to preselect any non-contracted novels to be future contracted novel, remove majority of the free readers by any means, reduce benefits for paid readers a little and hoping for those paid readers to pick up/read any free to read novels.

          I guess you can call it an investment.

            DaoistImmortalDrag Easy for you to say when you're not disabled and on fixed income, some of us with limited mobility read to keep our sanity. I know many websites that put ads which makes income for the website owners and keeps the reads free for the people. Only thing is I don't mind static ads but those damn redirects make you feel your PC is being infected!

                DarkRay I agree but there is way of expressing, no? I mean, calling people bastards and stuff... erm... doesn't sound too cool to me.

                Oh yes, we are supposed to avoid a sort of word storms. 😂

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                    Ramiro_Barrera Don't buy if you think that quality isn't up to the mark for you, no? : )

                    I believe one should invest money only in the stuff one finds worthy. So if you don't find a novel worthy enough, leave it and find a better one. That's how it works here, no?

                        MotivatedSloth It would make sense if the lion's share went to the author instead of the website owners. That's why Patre0n is a better option for authors to keep it free and let people pay the author directly! STOP BEING SO DAMN GREEDY AND FEEDING OFF THE AUTHOR"S HARD WORK!

                          DarkRay An even better deal would be to pay 9.99 a month for amazon's unlimited kindle deal which let's you hold up to 10 novels on your PC, kindle, device at one time. Like a library just return the ones you're done with and you can replace it with another one. Much better deal than the rip offs on this website!

                            Cantiara Sorry make it a more fair deal than you would have an argument, lower the cost of stones for the paying people and put static ads for the people that can't afford to pay. The few novels I think are amazing here I threw a few bucks that I could afford to their P&treon accts instead of feeding greedy website owners!

                                DaoistImmortalDrag dude you are saying as if you don't claim even dime from these free options. Also for your information the ads we view don't just benefit us. You got loads of money to spent on these but i don't that is why i stated I'm going and not you who is leaving. I respect the author and translators wholeheartedly. Don't use words like villains found in these novels😂. I just asked you about the recent updates and not commanded you uninstall the app or stop supporting the author and translators. Dumbass DoaistImmortalDrag😂😂😂. I like free things so what?! It's not like I'm doing something illegal it was webnovel who introduced these free SS system not me. Just prove it that you never used these free SS ever since you joined and I'll see if you are worthy of me apologizing to you for this. If you can't prove it then HOW DARE YOUUUU????!! FCKING BTARD!! I ASKED YOUR OPINIONS ABOUT RECENT UPDATES?? ENTITLED THIS ENTITLED THAT! Reflect upon your actions before scolding others.

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