Pacific novels down?

KennyAgyei · February 17,2025

The staff at Pacific novels said they will be migrating to a new site in October November. Their only novel was second coming of gluttony, which was taken away by the publishers. Now their website is down, getting error 404.

The website is down and being migrated or they just shut down Operations? Asking cause they don't have a discord afaik and no novels in translation atm.

arshiho · February 18,2025

Damn I never knew that. Big thanks to Breathe company to be willing to sign a licensing contract so quickly. Hope this enables WW to grow and acquire more korean novels.

The process usually takes longer and the korean publishers have pretty much always asked that the translations be taken down while they're still in negotiation. So Breathe company is really being nice here.

BraidennovelfaB · February 18,2025

Isn't that how most translations work? Translate until official licensers send a C+D and then try to work something out... well I suppose they were making quite a bit of money off the Patreon

DaoistCv4412 · February 18,2025

HOLY SHITTT!!

I THOUGHT QIDIAN GOT IT!! WW IS AWESOME!!!

also what happened to Pacific novels?

Yeah , they lied about the license with just an informal agreement. Well, that happened.

Divinenature · February 18,2025

Nowadays people are getting licenses at the start itself if they have any plans to continue long term. C&D's happen mostly to smaller , more leisure fan groups, who just want to translate for their audience.

MelshanzpT · February 18,2025

Basically they were frauds.
https://www.wuxiaworld.com/announcement/everlasting-gluttony-descends-on-wuxiaworld

StephenSmith0911 · February 18,2025

I don't want to jump to conclusions, but it looks like after the authors informal approval, they didn't try for an official contract. My guess is to avoid the fee they'd have to pay. If it's informal , and they tell everyone it's licensed, they can make a lot of profit without any compensation to the publishers.

SRSH12345 · February 18,2025

leimrat · February 18,2025

No, most are just illegal but overlooked. This is the same 'morally gray' translation scene that fansubbed anime and manga scanlation live in.

Pacific claimed to be legit and took down another site's translation of the novel... then got a cease and desist from the actual publisher