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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.

      Khana

      1. I didn't say only free readers benefitted from the free SS
      2. Did you know that the privilege service fees are not set up by WN but by authors/translators themselves?

          Cantiara
          I asked starvecleric about it a few days ago (translator of LoHP) he said that it's qidian who chose the price for the privilege.
          So it might be the case for originals but I don't think it's the case for translated novels

              Khana

              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?

                    Khana Depends which novels. Romance novels don't cost that much. Average 5-7 coins.

                        I'm talking about LoHP, I'm also premium for super Gene and chapters are usually ~6ss each

                          Cantiara yes thanks

                          Khana And those chapters are 12/16ss each. But they are long and well translated so it's all good on that.

                          Well that’s what I call cheap. With that average chapter length and base on it’s popularity here in WN, I expect at least a 2000+ for that 20chs

                                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.

                                  Reinesse serious. The novel I follow is 1000 for 5chs and 2500 for 20 chs and since that’s the only book I read here, I automatically assume that’s the privelege standard price. Plot-wise, very worth it for that price :D

                                  I don’t buy them tho, too poor for that.

                                      Most translated novels privilege are at 1k coins for lv4 : 20 chaps

                                        Khana another TIL. So that’s how some readers could save SS for privilege with just the daily bonus... thanks

                                            burntpotato yeah but that's not possible anymore so nothing justify those high prices now.

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