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Questions for webnovel from a paying reader
Khana I hate to break it to you
But those bonus SS they gave during purchase SS never gave anything to the author. They were considered free SS. 
So the reason why it was removed was normal.
XOMatsumaeohana But they'll stop paying for spirit stones all together, I think you're the one who got the wrong picture.
Khana
In my understanding to this, Newly created accounts either you registered with Facebook/Google/Webnovel Regestration Gives a One-Time Bonus Coins with a purchase; which is 100%! 2x you would receive of the amount given. Sometimes Webnovel host an event that gives extra purchased coins which is for a limited time. this can range from any percentage, decided by Webnovel.
Regarding bullet points 1&2, it's honestly a tricky situation. IMHO, they have been giving too much free SS from which a lot of readers had exhaustively benefitted. One could just stock up free SS to "purchase" Privilege (up to 1300 SS, no problem), which was really at cross purposes with the initial point of the service.
And to put it really bluntly, and I know I may sound snooty and get flamed by saying this, but anyway, here goes...
Privilege, as the name suggests, has always been aimed for the privileged ones, or as per everyone else's term here; the whales. If one is privileged enough to be able to purchase the service, then one is privileged enough to afford the coins in order to unlock those chapters.
But, in a way, I think that the removal of bonus coins is a good thing for paying readers. Most paying readers will have to decrease the amount of novels that they can follow per month. Sucks? Maybe. A bit. But it also means paying readers would become even more selective with the novels they're picking up, which will lead to a competition (a healthy one I hope?) between the contracted authors (maybe translators too? not sure), which would only mean better quality reads for paying readers. After all, who would want to spend their purchased coins on mediocre quality novels? I certainly wouldn't. So, authors couldn't afford spewing mediocre quality novels like before anymore.
Just my 2 cents.
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Cantiara
Except bonus coins from purchase are not for free readers, since they come from, well, a purchase.
And privilege is now truly limited to paying readers as you cannot get coins for free anymore.
And no it won't lead to a more healthy competition, it will lead to the end of the less "hype" novels to the profit of the more "hyped" ones, which might be a good thing for originals, but is a disaster to the translated ones as some novels have few readers and really depend on premium to keep the translation going.
And as I said, I paid 50€ a month for 3 novels privilege, if 50€ per month is still not enough for greedian then I might as well make 3 accounts and read everything for free, why paying 50€ a month if I get no advantages compared to plebians using fast passes?
Overall why would they make coins even more expensive than they already were? The goal is to convert free readers into paying ones, not the opposite, so make it more attractive to pay otherwise that won't happen.
Ok, my bad, I wasn't up-to-date.
I just found out that it was changed. Content contributors used to set the price, but WN actually lowered the prices and dropped the max amount of chapters that a content contributor can put up in the highest tier of the privilege service (from 50 to 20). So, in a way, WN actually helps lower the privilege prices. If it was up to the content contributors they would offer a max amount of 100 chapters for a much higher price.
But anyway, I get your point for translated novels.
Khana he said that it's qidian who chose the price for the privilege.
TIL. How much (coins) LoHP’s highest privilege costs?
The highest goes for 1200 Coins getting 20 chapters in advance.
The_Cheese that’s quite cheap for 20 chapters... thanks cheese!
You are welcome :thumbsup:
Keep in mind you still need to pay to unlock the chapters.
I'm talking about LoHP, I'm also premium for super Gene and chapters are usually ~6ss each
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Why would they put it at such a dumb price? At least at the current price a lot of people bought premium and are supporting both the author and the translator.
I would even say that it could be a good move to reduce the privilege levels price even more, because people would be tempted to buy it and then they would have to pay all the chapters with coins instead of fast passes.
I'd say 50 coins for 5chaps, 125 for 10, 250 for 15 and 500 for 20 would be perfect. And that would be better for all the translated novels, now that there is no free coins anymore.