WEBNOVEL PRIVILEGE

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Do you think webnovel is getting greddier ??

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  1. 222222

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    This is literally the same thing as Patreon only chapters. (The difference is, the money don’t go to the translator, but to the company).

    Translators don’t release new chapters as soon as they’re done translating. (Big surprise!).

    They stockpile chapters, and release chapters once a day, even if they already translated 100 chapters. (Milking the money).
     
  2. KizunaAi

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    Problem is even we have the privilege we still have to pay SS to read the chapter meanwhile patreon has every month you can read and not just read the title
     
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    but its not tho...

    in patreon at least you get to read the chapters after you have payed for them, in QI you pay for the privilege of seeing the name of a chapters title, and then have to pay again to read that chapter.
     
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    lucjanssens a very ¨rabbit¨ bunny

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    because i like my brain where it is
    MTL causes my brain to melt en leak out of mine ears
     
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    Silverasterisk [Wallflower] [Drive by poster]

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    That's not the voice of reason. Webnovel is made to grind money from users like a badly made phone app game. WW is a bunch of fans trying to spread good content internationally as reasonably as they can.
     
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    I see it as a combined cost, instead of separate costs. 6000 SS total for privileged chapters, instead of 5000+1000.

    Maybe it would make you feel better if the privileged chapters are free, but when you unlock the privileged chapters, it’s now 6000ss instead of 5000ss.
     
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  7. Beste

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    Yikes :blob_coughblood:, qidian is really dumb at even milking money from readers. They should have just asked for one-time payment for advance chapters. This is no way comparable to patreon which provide regular chapters for free.

    It felt like they just wanted to scam readers thinking it was an only one-time cost for a month and if they divided the cost it will look less at first. I would rather use my money on websites which are more reasonable so they can grow too.
     
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    The idea is like a Patreon only chapter;

    the execution is like a scummy, greedy entity trying to make people pay twice the amount for a product while keeping silence on how the 'privilege' works.

    It is pretty Chinese company-like to take an idea and 'innovate' it
     
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    But mate, thats still not how it works :blobrofl:

    There's no combined cost, else people would not be complaining, just because you might see it as such does not mean it is like that.

    The fact is, if you have payed 5k ss for 50 chapters, then you should get to view those 50 chapters, not just the title, if they want people to also read it, then yes they could have just made it all cost 6k ss instead, but thats not how they did it, they made it to seperate costs for a reason, and that reason is they will milk alot more out of people that way.

    so no, its greedy, its scummy, and its really, really unethical.
     
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    They want you to pay for the privilege to pay for more things which is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. Watching some people try to justify it has caused me to lose respect for them
     
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    You pay to unlock the right to see the chapters ahead, and after that you have to pay for the chapters ahead. So you're paying twice. I'm just wonder what sucker actually paid for this lmao.
     
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    They're just doing the same that WW is doing...
     
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    Well, I can still read the chapters without trouble. Try updating your app
     
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    naive little guys,
    you are forgetting spirits stones have different quality, and price rise by 100 times for every step of quality....
     
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    Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha *breathes* Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
     
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    You actually get stuff with WW’s vip. Webnovel’s privilege gives you nothing
     
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    Seeing people trying to defend this Is making me lose brain cells. :confused:
     
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    Don't see the issue TBH. The chapters always had SS as of late. What 'privilege' allows you to do is unlock the opportunity to read more chapters than is normally available. People that complain about unlocking privilege but still having to pay for the chaps simply baffle me. No one said the chap is free, you can just read ahead of people.
     
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    truthfully 50 cents army has infiltrated NUF...right? They provide convincing reasons but in itself contains flawed logic.

    I felt 50 cents it is...
     
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    Not gonna lie, this is pretty retarded and misleading enough to get in trouble ( surprise lawsuit ).

    However, this is just another side of Patreon. Instead of paying 20$ every month to view 10 chapters ahead, you pay 50$ once and 5$ per chapter ahead. I think this might be cheaper than Patreon itself in a long run, as long as it is like what I understand.
     
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