yaoyueyi thankyou! This was super helpful. Just one question, do points or Fast Passes purchased from them expire?
Addressing Your Complaints (Coins, Fast Passes, etc.)
I've been reading on my phone on webnovel to claim coins (where you read a certain amount and you get a certain amount of coins 30 mins = 10 coins, 120 mins = 10 coins etc.) and when i claim the coins, it doesn't add them to my account.
Please help me out here
yaoyueyi I don’t have any complaints about any of this stuff, and I do agree you can get more content with fast passes. My only complaint right now is that they made coins/spirit stones a lot more expensive. It used to be $100 + tax for anywhere between 5000 + 1750 to 5000 + 2500 SS. Now it’s $100 for 5000 or $150 for 7500. Now, as you addressed, I may be a paying reader, but they could have at least changed the overall ratio of SS to chapters more subtly like increasing price per chapter over a month of time. If they changed it so that I am actually getting my money’s worth from like before, then they should post about it and not keep users in the dark. Ergo, I believe I am paying more per chapter. You have a little rant about about keeping up with 13 books and about having to pay about that. I agree with that; I will pay to keep myself updated. I’m more mad about that I have to pay more per chapter to binge my favorite book because the approximate grand I’ve spent on books so far are a hellofa lot more interesting that my boring life.
Bazz1122 Thats because we now get points instead for this. I was confused by the same thing. You can see the points you have accumulated when you go to the store (under profile). Then you can buy fast passes and free reading and ither stuff with them.
Bazz1122 the reading time's reward have been changed into a point, aka farming point. The one that you received is not coin or SS anymore, that was the reason why your coin stay the same or lower(due to expired or used).
You can see the farming point when you check out a novel that have a yellow-married-with-gold pouch at the top of the right corner in their chapter.
Morning_Mist Oh alright thank you
Upon login. I am not receiving any coins. Can someone please fix this problem as soon as possible
GamerForLife
The most recent update did away with free coins for anything other than inviting a friend. The only way to get daily coins now is to buy membership. This isn't in error, you're just not up to date.
GamerForLife No, because you won't receive any coins anymore. Now you get fast passes. Come on, this thread is SPECIFICALLY for the sake of answering questions so at least spare this minimal fcking effort and read the FIRST damn post where the answer is.
And here I thought you guys were cheapskating me! Thanks for the explanation. Where can I find a break down of how much of my spending goes to authors?
yaoyueyi yes but its not adding in value when I read and I don't see any advertisements. It only increase when I clam the reading times coins
yaoyueyi You can also get points for hitting certain time checkpoints in the reading checkpoints.
This has not been happening. When it was still Spirit Stones, yes, but when it changed over to coins, it stopped. I do get the pop-ups that I've achieved ## reading minutes and have been rewarded with 10 coins, but my balance remained the same until I finally used up all my old SS two weeks ago. Now, regardless of my reading minutes, I still have 0 coins. I can usually log in up to 600 minutes a week which should give me 50 coins, but I haven't gotten any in the past two weeks. Am I missing anything?
yaoyueyi You can also get points for hitting certain time checkpoints in the reading checkpoints.
This has not been happening. When it was still Spirit Stones, yes, but when it changed over to coins, it stopped. I do get the pop-ups that I've achieved ## reading minutes and have been rewarded with 10 coins, but my balance remained the same until I finally used up all my old SS two weeks ago. Now, regardless of my reading minutes, I still have 0 coins. I can usually log in up to 600 minutes a week which should give me 50 coins, but I haven't gotten any in the past two weeks. Am I missing anything?
THA BIG RANT:
It's interesting that people think that content, infraestructure, and the people behind WN are created just like writing fiction. You want it to exist, and after you type some words, it exists by the magic of your imagination.
But it's real life.
It has costs. COSTS. COSTS!
People find a Chinese novel on internet and asks: TRANSLATE IT. I WANNA READ IT! WN translates it.
then: TOO FEW OPTIONS! GIMME MORE! WN gives you more.
then: IMPROVE THE APP! they start working on it.
then: WANNA ORIGINALS! they start paying originals.
But you guys don't want to pay anything. It's too much "gimme gimme", like 2yo toddlers throwing tantrums.
WN it's not perfect. But it needs to be paid, regardless. Authors, translators, editors, IT guys and programmers, costs on rent, equipment, servers, and etc etc. Netflix it's not perfect either, people also complain about content choices, bugs and whatever, but it needs to be paid the same.
Don't pretend to be so dumb you can't understand it. If you can't, you're really a toddler that cannot see beyond your hands.
-"OH, I don't have money but I still wanna read!"
You can watch the movie's trailler for free, but they don't let you go watch the full movie in the theather if you don't have a ticket. But you still can watch other movies available in the open TV. That's your option when you claim you don't have money for a ticket.
OR... prioritize what you want and make money for it. Stop acting like a baby. Pay for the fun you consume.
That's how world works.
-Wanna endorse piracy?! It says much about you, not about WN. If you are the one who think it's fair to steal, there's a name for it. And it's not Robin Hood.
Don't forget Megaupload, Pirate Bay and the such paid a price, in the past, and in US some people who consumed pirated movies and songs were sued as well. Nobody judged whether the songs or movies had high quality and "deserved" to be pirated. If you are stealing, it's because you think it's worth something.
-Free options? Of course there are some... by now.
There's NO FREE APP in the world. They start free, but they won't be free forever. Costs raise and must be paid.
Ads don't pay the costs. It's like people who think Youtubers make millions only on Google Ads. That's not how they make money.
OH such an annoyance to deal with people acting as toddlers.
What is free, is free, but to Caesar what's Caesar's.
Don't @.
eaglesword From Contract FAQ.
Authors' earnings come from Premium chapters, Privilege chapters and Gifts (which are from paid Spirit Stones.) FYI, writers earn much more from Premium chapters than Gifts.
In a Premium chapter, 100 words = 0.01 USD.
101 words count as 200 words, which would amount to 0.02 USD
0.02 USD = 1 Spirit Stone
A Premium chapter with 1000 words would require 5 Spirit stones to unlock, and would amount to 0.1 USD.
Fast pass only benefits those who read expensive novels. Those who read the cheaper novels (3-4 coins per chap, which goes down to 1-2 coins per chap with discount) will have their reading cut down significantly. And these are translated novels I'm referring to, so you can't say WN won't be allowing short chapters in the future as there's no way translated novels will get longer unless chapters get merged. Not surprised WN is losing readers. This is an ill-advised move.
PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH
Whit this new system I tough to not purchase the privilege chapters anymore because anyway they are not unlockable with the fast passes. So I decided to wait for the free released ones, but now "not privileged" chapters are been released anymore (at least this week), even if the release rate stated is 12 chapters per week. Is it normal?