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Hi,
l just want that can you PLEASE increase the no of passes.
Thank you

MotivatedSloth Pressing X to doubt. If anything, it would help the authors if more was available for free. Word of mouth advertisement is important, and reductions in what free users get reduces the amount of people saying good things about the service. This is especially the case with the lack of other forms of advertisement.

The general attitude towards this site is getting worse. Low quality standards, cash grab attempts and constantly restricting free users more, all of those contribute towards the negative reputation of the site. Giving more to free users would help that improve, and over time draw in more readers, of which part is willing to pay. If free users aren't satisfied they won't advertise the service, leading to the innevitable end of the service.

After fast passes were introduced, many authors and translators saw a decrease in their income over time, because less people join, try the novel and stick around for long enough to consider paying or telling others about the novel. Especially authors of novels with short chapters were hit by that.

The passes aren't about giving free chapters away, but about getting free advertisement, just like free coins were before. Guess what happens if there aren't enough readers to keep things profitable? Novels will get dropped left and right as nothing is earned by writing or translating.

People who aren't willing to pay won't suddenly pay because of restrictions, they just leave and move on, forever causing a lost source of advertisement. In that case, more free stuff could keep them around longer, at no cost, so they can tell others about what they liked. On the other hand, those that are willing to pay aren't obstructed from doing so with more free options. On the contrary, the free options could let them check novels they would have ignored otherwise, making sure the quality is good enough. They can then choose to unlock a novel without first having to pay to check if the quality dropped, as is the case with many novels.

Matirion

First thing first, wanna share where do you get the information about the author's income decreasing? Because from what I know, and it can be completely wrong since it comes from the real authors themselves rather than the imaginary bunch you mentioned, -- Most of the authors that were doing great, good, so-so, average and even below the standard, saw the SPIKE in their income, that surprisingly, stayed. So there is already a great discrepancy between your claims and the reality, but let's dig deeper.

What is the most important thing about this and any service, that decided the pricing, rules and basically everything about it:
- Content.

If you don't have content, even if you have the cheapest prices, greatest rules and super popularity, your site will be dead anyway. Of course, you can try to salvage it with whatever you can produce yourself, but overall, to get people to stick, you need to provide all sorts of form and kinds of entertainment, so that even if a sizeable minority of them will just leave, even more will stay.

And now look at Webnovel. It had translations, sure. But as content editors already claimed a way ago, with time, the gap between originals and translations will only begin to close, with how the market of the eastern cliches is already saturated with more than enough books that covers those bases. Do you know why original cultivation books are turning to be more popular than translated ones? Because they can add original, non-chineese twist to the rule.

So lets now adhere to my standard and reply directly to your parts:

Matirion Pressing X to doubt. If anything, it would help the authors if more was available for free. Word of mouth advertisement is important, and reductions in what free users get reduces the amount of people saying good things about the service. This is especially the case with the lack of other forms of advertisement.

While the form you are saying this is childish, I can't argue with the content. Reducing free stuff reduces the whispered advertisement. What are you, trying to rediscover America here? But guess what, companies have budgets for advertisement, and three fast passes a day is already the most that authors and translators can agree too. Thats why WN is becoming more and more active everywhere it can now.

Matirion The general attitude towards this site is getting worse.

Nah, you can think like that because you only see the negative part of the forum, when those who were unwilling to pay for their entertainment decided to show the world of WN how they are dissatisfied with the site, thinking that it would adhere to western standards of catering to btchy customers. But guess what, while they weren't pointed at the door and helped with a kick to the bottom, nobody really cared about them. After all, they just rant, then just go (or rather, stay but keep silent to not lose face, but contrary to their expectations, I keep track of 90% of those who post threads wanting to have their accounts deleted. Most of them remains active. Be it here on WN site)

Matirion After fast passes were introduced, many authors and translators saw a decrease in their income over time

My score proves it wrong, and the scores of every single author that I know. Even a friend of mine who is always lamenting over how he has 2 readers, saw this number increase to 3. And while I won't claim that everyone saw 50% increase trend, its going for the better over time. Recent events could cause the fall of this, but thankfully, when everyone is forced to stay at home, easy entertainment like this seems to be put back into the hierarchy.

Matirion The passes aren't about giving free chapters away, but about getting free advertisement,

Both yet and no. They are here to hook you on the story, and makes you more willing to pay up to read without waiting entire damned day for more passes. They won't do anything in terms of bringing more people.

Matirion like free coins were before

And they were sacked from the site, and we needed to wait an entire month for all of them to disappear to even bother calculating the trends in our income. Guess why - because there was too many of them. There was no need to pay anything, as you could easily stockpile several thousands of them. And once again, I wonder where does your claim comes from about writing not being profitable.

Maybe because you don't realise that most of the books were made with the MGS as their target alone, and never were intended to earn anything by themselves? (But I can't expect you to even know what MGS is)

Matirion People who aren't willing to pay won't suddenly pay because of restrictions, they just leave and move on, forever causing a lost source of advertisement. In that case, more free stuff could keep them around longer, at no cost, so they can tell others about what they liked. On the other hand, those that are willing to pay aren't obstructed from doing so with more free options. On the contrary, the free options could let them check novels they would have ignored otherwise, making sure the quality is good enough. They can then choose to unlock a novel without first having to pay to check if the quality dropped, as is the case with many novels.

And here we are coming to the last piece of the puzzle, that only proves how little of economy do you know.

But lets dissect it slowly.

Matirion People who aren't willing to pay won't suddenly pay because of restrictions, they just leave and move on

I know its fun and easy to just separate people into two categories, those who are and those who are not willing to pay. But guess what, those who like reading and are not willing to pay, are coming to pirate sites, and continue to spread the word of mouth around, most likely bringing more payable users. Seven readers of mine openly admitted (despite being premium users!) they have came from the pirate site, after seeing my message I dropped there.

Those people that are unable and unwilling to pay, are worthless in terms of business. They can only be used as means to promote, but never as the group to cater to, especially not at the cost of the content creators.

Matirion at no cost

At the cost of at least half of the site original authors dropping their novels and moving out, while 50% of what would remain would put their novels on indefinite hiatus for as long as it would take to reverse the changes. You keep speaking globally, while looking only at one side of the coin. But guess what, all that advertisement you are speaking about... You forgot about one important thing. Whispered adv is not that effective nowadays. Pay 20$ and I can turn your trash novel int top 200 one. Pay 200$ and it reaches top50. Pay 1000$ and its in top20. There are entire corporations aiming insane resource at advertisement campaigns. And trust me, they are better choice than burning your foundations down.

Matirion those that are willing to pay aren't obstructed from doing so with more free options.

Yes, they are. There is finite amount of time they can spend on reading, and there is finite amount of money they can spend. Give them free options and they will be happy, for sure, because before they used to read 15 chapters a day, 12 paid and 3 free, now the ratio changes. But in effect, they leave less money to the site.

On the other hand, like you said with people changing into other novels - that only means that by diluting the worth of reading, you are making them pay less for already popular novels they would normally pay for. ANd while I agree with you on this point, that only serves to prove what I spoke about just before - that not only it would influence the entire site, but top authors first and foremost.

Just an info to you on the side - Whenever I racked up my release speed to 4 chapters a day, I would get complains about people unable to keep up with fast passes and asking me to stop. That nicely shows the mentality, free users have. They think they are entitled to anything, while they can only be grateful for the ability to legally read others work for free. Which is still not enough for most, as I have a lot of readers openly admitting to reading on pirate sites whenever they felt like it.