When I read this thred to full I was reminded of the scene.
This shopkeeper was a cat lover, so he used to put snack he made for the stray cats on the village street his shop was located. Then after a while his shop became famous and people started forming queues to get in to the shop and the stray cats couldn't eat the snacks. The shopkeeper also forgot about the stary cats as his business grew since he was busy collecting money and because of the ruckus made by paying customers the stray cat's hungry cry for food was forgotten. Now there is only 2 options for the cats one is to wait for the shopkeeper or find food on their own. Which one you all think the cats should take?

    Thrice_Reckless_0

    Removing a right? Where is written WN owes the reader fast passes? Be it generic or not?

    Sorry, but your parable is weird. It kind of didn't apply at all at the situation in hand.

    You stated he's a cat lover. Once a cat lover, always a cat lover. One person can't just walk into Mordor ops, quit being a cat lover. 😸

    If you mean the readers that only read for free are like the cats in your little story... Webnovel still provides free passes. It's not poisoned cat food/expired food. It's good cat food, but perhaps is not always tuna-flavored, but chicken, or salmon.

    The shopkeeper now buys the food that's on sale and decided he won't allow the cats to pick from ~38 different cans what they will eat anymore. There's too much stray cats at his door, cats that are occupying store space and even annoying some customers... and causing the prices of his store to raise because the shopkeeper needs to provide for all the stray cats a lot of different food and snacks and toys.

    Just to remind you guys, when you buy a product to resell, you need to inventory it and calculate all the costs to sell it to make its final price. So, when a reader complains about fast passes, they are unaware other people are paying for their free reading. Webnovel needs to calculate the loss of offering free reading to attracts prospective paying customers and dilutes this cost somehow... We did this math once but there's a single truth: someone is paying for all the free reading.

    The shopkeeper is putting the cans of cat food on the costs of operating the store. So, if it becomes a huge cost and the paying customers cannot enter the shop or are complaining about the prices, he needs to make a choice. He opted to reduce the cans of cat food and not serve a lot of them at once.

    But is seems some cats here rather wish to steal food while others will comply with the varied new food and be content for being fed.

    And yeah, it seems the cat can go anywhere to get free food of their liking.

    I'm used to go to Sephora and earn the samples they have to offer me, not from the product I use to buy. I go to Lezhin Comics and receive daily coins for specific titles from my favorite genre and related ones. It's this way or nothing.
    it's not my right to get a sample or free coins, but a marketing strategy from the companies to SELL MORE. Not to give away and get nothing in return.
    How can I blame them?

      SrtaA OMG! I am sorry if you didn't understand the sarcasm of the story. It's just an anology for neither side is wrong as the cats don't have human's intellect to understand market strategy and stuff. In their mind the guy feeding them didn't give food. As for the shopkeeper, well you explained his pov so there isn't anything left for me to add.

        Thrice_Reckless_0 I'm sorry too. Sarcasm is often misread because when it's written the person usually reads with their own voice of mind, and there's some cultural things in the middle... well, anyway, I apologize.

          SrtaA No problem. I just wanted to make a point that it isn't fault of either side. If anyone want to blame, you can blame on the sudden implementation of such a system without prior notice. That's poor management decision I tell ya but the most commonly used tactic in business.

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            I talked today with my friend, he is an online writer (as a hobby), translator (to his native language) and old reader who introduced me to the baka-tsuki and the first translation of LMS very, very long time ago. He knows how hard to earn money with writing and translating, but we couldn't find an answer how RWX (from wuxiaworld) is able to buy translating license from Chinese and Korean publishers and to pay a good salary for translating/editing/etc? And why Qidian can't follow his business model?
            It's quite simple - place some adequate amount of ads, make a reasonable premium system and sell completed books.

            I find it quite interesting how most people miss the point.

            Free/Non-paying Readers - Complaining Webnovel restricting free passes limiting what they can read without resorting to pirate sites one google search away.

            Authors - Complaining that people refusing to pay means they get no income.

            This thread seems filled with authors attacking Free/Non-paying readers and vice versa. However the reality is that authors signed a contract with Qidian/Webnovel and if they're unhappy with income then issue lies with Qidian/Webnovel who has either taken too big of a cut or they have a bad business model. On the other hand as far as Free/Non-paying readers go if Webnovel restricts free passes etc then you can simply vote with your feet and follow novels from different sites you can easily find on https://www.novelupdates.com/.

            Either way this change doesn't affect me much. I remember when Webnovel still went by the name Qidian International that they promised no pay walls etc. With the gradual introduction of adwalls, then premium, then privilege most goodwill was gradually eroded into nothing. I used to read a few novels that had been poached from other sites but then they more or less all got dropped and while at the time I wasn't too happy in hindsight I think it's not too bad as it's meant I can completely leave the Webnovel ecosystem without any regrets.

              AnnoyingADs Yeah, I remember what happened at NU forum and Reddit at that time, and CKTalon's words:
              "In the event, Qidian sets up a paywall, they will be betraying me as well, and make me seem like a fool here. When that happens, I'll definitely have to apologize for me being stupid and 'signing a contract with the devil'."
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                MotivatedSloth i'm the type of person who can imagine all kinds of different scenarios and get lost in them, but can't seem to write or draw them into paper. I'm also the type to not be motivated to do anything unless i already believe i can succeed in something.

                Since i can't put thoughts into paper, i subconsciously tell myself "forget about it" and i stop thinking about it. I'm more of a reader than a writer anyway. Sorry about that.

                  Tomoyuki no problem. I do think if you want to pirate something then you should at least not be so blatant about it. Pirating sucks but sometimes you can't help but go and sail the seas. I'm of the opinion though that even if you pirated something, if you really loved what you took then pay for it legally to support that person, so i'll only criticise that guy for being so rude at saying their gonna pirate.

                    AnnoyingADs yeah i remember those times. I was not against watching an ad as long as i can read but times have changed. Whenever there are new changes, sometimes i only found it when i stumble about it since WN didn't even make it clear they made a change, like changing daily all-purpose fastpass log-ins for genre-specific ones. And why DID WN decide to change the weekly login reward to exp anyway? Sigh.

                      AbsoluteReader001 Well my viewpoint is that Webnovel can do whatever they want with their site. Having said that making unilateral changes without even telling anyone or explaining why they have done it isn't good business as it makes people feel messed around. This poor communication is systematic across Webnovel and I think it does seriously harm them.

                      Generally I find that if there is bad news I'm quite happy to accept it as long as they're upfront about it. For example if they say a novel has been dropped cause they're losing money on it I can accept it even if I'm not thrilled. However what we find instead is that they simply stop updating and don't tell anyone anything leaving bemused readers to guess it's probably been dropped. The problem is who in their right mind would spend money on a novel that could be dropped without notice nor explanation the very next day.

                      It's the same with changes to fastpass etc where they assume it will be unpopular so they just change it quietly and hope no one will notice. Problem is that it firstly makes Webnovel look untrustworthy and secondly it seems to imply that they think people won't be interested in their offering if they knew all the facts so they need to keep it hidden. Each individual incident isn't really a deal breaker but when I add them all together if you were to ask me if I trust Webnovel answer would be a decisive NO and that's not what any company wants when trying to prise open people's wallets...

                        AnnoyingADs Webnovel is unstable
                        Why pay for cheap trash like webnovel when they'll just thank you for your patronage by flipping you off.

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                            imagineTishaD I don't understand, how's the customer service supposed to help with dissatisfaction against company policy changes? They don't have any control here.

                            And if the company cared about feedback, there's plenty on the forum, so I doubt telling customer service would make any difference. In fact it may cause long queues or heavy traffic and render the CS useless.

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