Are there some fellows who feel the same as me? I remember how it started , the so called rivalry with wuxiaworld on early stages, all great novels which were published there first, martial world and other. Now I'm sad, and kind of empty.
I learned about Gravity Tales when I started reading The Breakers when it just started. Boy, was it amazing! Another good translation website going down as I am still reading their works is upsetting :/
For me, this has been a slow moving train wreck since Gravity Tales became part of "what it should not be named".
It got bought. And ah, yes. Wuxia world for chinese novels, gravity tales for korean. O' how the times have changed.
(after it got bought) I remember how Age of Adepts novel translators posted announcement there that they were abandoned in terms of supports or something. They could still post there, but to get finances they had to rely on patreon exclusively.
Gravity tales had some good novels as well, which either ended or entered the translation hiatus hell. Wuxia on the other hand kept getting better. Many of their novels release daily chapters, they took in Korean novels as well, and finally worked out a deal with the authors. Making WW a very attractive platform for translators. This started a positive cycle. GT dying was inevitable.
After king of god and legend of herding god moved to webnovel, I lost my hope After Hidden Assasin and Chaotic Lightning cultivation no more being translated, I no longer visit GT
The contracts are what really killed it in my opinion, everything else was just the extra stone stacked upon it to break GT.
They were going strong with great site design and nice novels. Then the drama has happened and it was sold. It was at that moment that it had died.
R.I.P Gravitytales - will always be remembered as the my first WN website, my first glimpse into a world that is a constant in my life, given my so much and in the future; give me more
Lol I don't know if anyone remembers but before NU, I used to go on there and refresh every few hours, before I knew about aho updates
What really happened to it? Quite a few good novels were being translated from gravity tales and I thought they were just on a hiatus or something, so I never picked them up. Didn't know it was dropped though. So what really happened?
Reminds me of the author of The Witcher selling for a lump sum of $10 000 instead of royalties. Thats what happens when you sell your soul.
Well, the market transformed from translating as a hobby to making a living. It is not the first site to die and won`t be the last as we saw multiple good translators with a good reputation disappear over the years.
Thanks for reminding me about Breakers, I finally read the last 2 SS that I missed 3 years ago. That was a nice ending indeed, though reminded me of another WN ending or something lol
After visiting the website, there is a notice that says that the site domain is going to redirect to webnovels. Also, the standard boilerplate language interspersed through the rest of the future plans suggests that it wasn't worth keeping it as its own domain that those who could have stood in the way were already cleared out or "convinced" after the integration.
I knew it was dying once the translator of one of my favorite on GT had to start 'sneaking' chapters in. It has been so many years, so the details are a little blurry, but I remember them complaining how the buy-out changed things from a nice, friendly environment to one that was sucking the lifeforce out of them. I believe they released a bundle of semi-translated chapters then disappeared. Edit: I think it was Lord of All Realms or God of Slaughter?