Adriburr56 there's already a point system for daily recommendations. Earn points and exchange for fp's. Different books turn up on daily recommendations everyday so there's no need for a separate treasure hunt simply for fp's. It's a waste of money for webnovel coz of the unnecessary marketing and loss of income for authors.
Wouldn’t be cool to have other ways to get fast passes?
Tea_Tae most just skip over it and they suggest books that you may like, not something that they may not like let's say, for instance, you prefer books with a female lead and you are on a hunt to find the answer to the treasure hunt that's in a male lead book (or different genre that you may not be into), you may fall in love with it or you might not but they may know someone who would and suggest it. That’s what I think, thank you for your comment!
melonbread thank you!
Adriburr56 You can't speak for other readers. Whenever my book was in Daily Recommendations, I got good collections. Almost same case with other authors. And we get actual paid readers from Daily Recommendations which is much better than getting fp's. Readers already get 3 fast passes per day which is a lot. A separate event for fp's is just a waste for readers and writers.
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Maekellen 1) Daily Recommendations change everyday so if you have 'zero interest' in it then you're the one losing out on many good books. And then readers like you come to the forum to complain 'why there aren't any new books'. Besides, just read any of those books for a few minutes and you'll be able to get lots of fp's. Why complain about not getting any fp when you're not even trying the options already available to you?
2) FP's are one of the worst things to happen to an author. The reason fp's are limited at 3 per day is so that authors don't lose their income. If most readers use fp's then the authors don't get any money and that only discourages an author from writing more chapters. Ironically, when an author stops updating a book which doesn't earn much, readers complain about it without any consideration of what the author might have felt. If we can give up food, sleep and social life to write and publish chapters everyday, surely as a reader you can support us with paid coins and less complaints, right?
3) Don't like the genre specific fp's? Just buy the coins and pay for the books you like.
I know that a lot of readers can't afford to pay for coins and that's understandable. But the more fp's readers get, the more authors are at a loss.
Tea_Tae Again, no issue with a 3 a day limit...as long as the reader gets to pick where he spends it. The reason so many readers complain about no good books is because 99% of the works are ao poorly translated that attempting to read them are downright painful.
Of the remaining 1%, most are carbon copies within the same genre. A good number are just poorly written. These 2 categories are usually what gets pushed as recommended. Most have us have actually tried the feature; it is just crap.
Do not complain about the free FP. When they were free generics I purchased coins on a monthly subscription. I either primarily used the free f's while trying new works or to catxch up if I ran out of coins. The problems with many works on WN do not show until after the free chapters after all.
Now that they were changed, my subscription has been cancelled. The authors got more money with the generic fp's. Only WN has benefitted from the change as theyhave driven many folks away. This can be seen from how many of the old posterd have disappeared from the site.
There are millions of books on webnovel. Are you telling me that you've read all of them? Or are you judging based on the books which YOU have read? Did you ever try to look through the hidden gems or other features? Or changed genres? Like, 99% bad translations and 1% generic content? That means you've read everything on webnovel, right? Or are you just ASSUMING that just because you read bad books, it must mean all of webnovel's books are bad?
The reason why majority of the books have similar contents is because readers want them. Do you know what happens when a writer even attempts to do something different with the story? The readers drop the story. When I tried to go against the norm and killed off a main character, my readers dropped the book (and the main theme of the book was death lol). You're complaining about cliche content and bad translations, blaming the writers when it's really the readers who love these cliche tropes and forcing us to write it because that's what sells.
Secondly, If you're paying then why are you complaining about fp's? Just keep using coins. Why will fp's matter to a paid reader? When my readers pay for my books, they don't even look at their fp's. They just pay normally for the chapters.
Thirdly, this change in fp actually increased a lot of our incomes. Lesser known writers are now getting more paid readers because fp's became genre specific. And now with win win, authors are giving more mass releases and books which made readers increase their spending on our books. If more fp's are introduced, it'll only put authors to a disadvantage.
Also, many old authors left because of various reasons. Life happens. They have their own stuff to do. Webnovel isn't their only job.
If you want fp's then simply use the options available in webnovel or just buy coins and actually support the books you like. There are so many options and yet, ya'll will complain unnecessarily without using any of them.
Tea_Tae Wait... isn’t it pretty normal to kill off the main characters? They do that all the time in transmigration and reincarnation novels so I don’t really see the problem here.
ImNotNarcissistic by kill I meant dead. Not reincarnated nor transmigrated but actually dead to the point of no return. Even in a book which dealt with the theme of death, they hated it when I killed off one of the MC's for good. But they threatened me so much and unanimously dropped my book when it was just on its last arc. So I was forced to bring back that character and give a typical happy ending which I hated.
Readers despise anything different from regular tropes. They want happy endings so anything other than that is a no no for them. Which is why these cliche tropes exist. Readers demand for them from us. So there's no point in complaining that 'all novels are same' when in reality it's 'readers love cliche'.
ImNotNarcissistic If you haven't read my novel then why did you just assume I didn't give any of that? There was foreshadowing and many hints. Plus, the whole point of death is that it's random and sudden which is why it's called the point of no return. The theme of the book was DEATH. So how can killing off a main character make no sense? It was needed at that time but readers were the ones who forced me to change it even after I killed him off. Please read the book before making any sort of judgement.
We're veteran writers here and we know what development is needed for our characters and also, when to kill them off if necessary. If the readers aren't ready for change then that's their issue. Constantly whining for new things but still preferring pitch perfect happy endings is just bs.
But what to do? That's what sells here. That's how we have to make money.
And now readers want more fp's. Like, why? It's bad enough that we are forced to conform to the general mindset for the readers so that they'll pay for the chapters and now complaining about fp's, not realizing that the more fp's wn gives out, the more authors will be discouraged from updating.
It's funny that readers can whine and complain about authors not giving them something fresh and also about lack of fp's without realizing that the authors are human beings too. Reading one chapter takes a few minutes but writing that chapter can take hours. Fp's already eat away hours of our effort and now that wn is trying to spread out the earnings for authors, readers complain again.
And you wonder why many authors left this platform.
Tea_Tae At this point, I have to ask if you have even used WN? Not as a writer, but as a client. Many of the genres are erroneously cross-typed (many legitimately as well). The majority of praised, recommended, highly reviewed works are just copy-pasted garbage of garbage I have already tried and rejected (same generic and illogical beginning with only the names being changed), translations that mysteriously decline in quality once you have to pay for them, a review system that allows writers to DELETE reviews...
Seriously, yes there are some excellent treasures here. Unfortunately they are buried admist the piles of trash and generally are not worth the time, effort, and money it takes to find them.
Maekellen I've been reading and writing on WN since 2019. I pay for coins to read and support authors so that they're motivated to write more. I don't even look at fast passes anymore because they're not providing assistance to any author.
And if you can't search for good novels, then that's your issue. The free chapters of a novel should be enough to tell a reader whether they should read it or not. You're only skimming the top novels instead of scrolling down or look at the other features for something which might interest you. If you're so dissatisfied, then just try writing a novel on your own and see how your readers will force you to stick to tropes as well. Whining about content is easy but writing it is hard.
You're calling novels here garbage but do you even realize the efforts we have to give behind every chapter? You really think that we want to write cliche? LOL. The readers make us write cliche. So imagine our frustration to see readers whine about content whereas in reality when we write something different, the readers diss us. And then the readers demand more fast passes to read our books for free.
As a reader and writer, I found many hidden gems and also supported my fellow writers with shout outs, gifts and coins, encouraging them to write what they want and not what others want. As a reader, I don't complain about fast passes because paid readers will never look at those things. They'll pay no matter what to support the authors.
So why should wn even increase fast passes? It eats our income. When we earn less, wn earns less. Which is why the genre based fp's a needed and there is a daily limit to it so that readers can buy coins to read.
As for the delete review option. Authors were bullied by many bots over the years. Haters came after our novels and spammed it, other wn users kept on spamming us with emojis and we couldn't remove any of them. Some of us even got death threats.
Editors were flustered, having to delete thousands of hate reviews and it was a waste of time for them. Which is why the delete review option exists. It wasn't the authors who wanted it but rather the haters who caused this option to pop up. Yes, some authors remove the criticisms but that's an unfortunate side effect which the spammers brought upon webnovel. Not the authors themselves.
If you don't like the fp system, then too bad. Authors seem fine with it. Paid readers are fine with it.
Tea_Tae Not at all.
Many of the defects appear after the free chapters end. Especially notable is when the translation quality drops.
I have literally spent over an hour looking through the lists and no, it is NOT my problem. WN throws specific LN's at the reader but if you want to search for something without a specific title in mind, you have to scroll down genre lists that are not even alphabetized. As far as I can tell, there is no form of organization. You cannot target or eliminate tags to make the lists more concise either.
And even when I was purchasing coins, I still used all 3 general fp's and uses points to buy the 2 weekly. I was just trying that many stories.
Regardless of whether you believe itnis difficult to find something good to read or not (this is subjective after all), it does not change the fact that WN charges a premium without providing a premium service. If I could count on the translation quality and all stories to be completely translated, it might be otherwise.