your prices are way to high, you have great content and the website is fantastic! but how can you justify spending so much on a single light novel?? and how much is actually going to the authors?
Cost of Chapters are way to high
Its because the good folks over at Qidian decided that people reading on PC didn't matter or exist, and decided to do an extreme push towards the mobile market by releasing a premium-account system but only for those who have the app.
Qidian wants you to spend money. They are thus making it so unpleasant to NOT spend money that you basically have to spend money.
Please tell me you aren't actually surprised.
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Or maybe just save up in SS and read the free Originals in the meantime? There’re plenty of stories out there.
When I paid for membership and did all the free SS dailies, I saved up nearly 900 SS in one month. Now I’m figuring out where to gift them just for fun/show support (even though free SS doesn’t pay authors).
I actually wish members could trade them for PS or even ES so I could make better use of them...
I just don't read the majority of novels on this site anymore. I just read the originals and go to novelupdates for my translations. Also, as I stated earlier, premium is mobile app only.
The cost is very expensive , especially when you read multiple novels , if you are a free reader , you can only read 3-4 chapters daily , making it impossible to enjoy more than 2 novels at a time , because you can’t pay for more chapters with the 30 odd ss you may revive. I think the amount of ss you receive should increase depending your level and time spent reading . If a person reads 400-600 mins a week , they should receive more ss in their daily check ins . As it shows they are loyal readers and should be rewarded for their efforts even if they don’t have a huge sack of cash to throw at the app
7 months later
While I'm honestly not surprised that it's gotten worse, this is ridiculous.
I come back after a break from this site and all of the spirit stones I collected from daily visits are now gone because apparently it wasn't enough to simply limit you to a few chapters a day. Now, it's literally impossible to read an entire story at a time without paying money, and a ridiculous amount at that. Still not gonna pay upwards of 60$ to read a half-quality translation, even if the story is legitimately good.
Making daily spirit stones expire is probably the most disgusting action I've seen thus far, considering you basically just spit on loyal readers for trying to enjoy your content.