Clone You know there is nothing in this world is free for a quality kind of service. sometimes we must know and consider the effort of the producers..
Introducing the Premium program BETA, giving you advanced chapters!
Clone and at least they still provide other option to read the novels.
Hyper_pumpkin like i said, pirate. you have to pay too in the official site. man.. they made it for commercial purpose.
Noire No one said anything about paying for SS, and I never said I was, so please do not spread false information without reading correctly. I never use any of my SS and I signed up last year, I only have 450, because they kept expiring and I do not do daily check-ins cause I'm not rabid reader like everyone else seems to be so please, stop with the accusations and assumptions, it is not appreciated.
I don't support and love any website, I am a consumer and am very much allowed, whether it's free or paid to hold everything I AM CONSUMING to a standard. Just because you buya ratchet computer at bestbuy that the "Geek Squad" fixed up for you does not mean everyone else wants to continue using the same junk k?
It didn't really matter when stuff was free because it was like who cares it's free, but as we got more comfortable we realized we liked the books they are cool, it's not like you can just go and pick this up in a library, they don't even have this stuff. I support the author, everything is a cog in the machine to get the authors voice to me. Qidian = Cog, employee's of Qidian = Cog, Translators = Cog, not to dehumanize anyone but generally once you are part of a company, franchise or even a movement you become unseen and everything is about the cause and not the actual you. So I don't care about Qidian, and I don't care about the translators, what I care about is the story, the quality of that story and how to make that story available to more people and share with everyone I know because essentially that is what people write, that is what people do art for.
Of course we need companies like QIdian to help spread the art, and when a company starts to abuse something, or not take the best care of the artwork, I have a right to complain and so should anyone else. You have no right to tell people to be grateful, and yes no in so many words did you say so but let's get real we all know where you were going. So stop being so grateful and start getting critical because the more grateful you are the more chapters they will begin to take from you until you are left with no new releases and your SS? They might just go out the window, so what about then? Should I tell you to be grateful you got to read even a little bit? Oh sure I don't mind tell you that, I might even put on a brilliant smile for you then.
[Disclaimer: I am in no way saying that Qidian will not continue to have free users, just trying to make a point that there is a possibility for such things to happen and being grateful will probably lead to such ends]
ihateqi As far as I know, reading the other chapter or advance chapter for free ads block is also appearing for service itself but i dont know right now..
14 chapters to 7 chapters per week
Sounds good to me as long as you dont have any mistake in your translations. There's plenty you can do to waste time waiting for the chapters.
Noire This can be complicated. First of all if they would do to that the a piracy will start being a thing. Till now you could just watch 15 sec. ad and get your entertainment. Those demanding are happy (15 sec. isn't much time) and quidan get's add revenue. With paywall, especially with a lot of chapters behind it quidan could loose those people and revenue for pirates. Second, right now, most of those chapter either free, or easily accessible can have some mistakes in them. Like, i love RtW but even i with english as my second language can recognize that translation quality can... change from time to time, with paywall, and license those mistakes are inexcusable. You're paying, you're rightfully demand quality. Third one, i think that blocking those novel could be more complicated than we think, with law and contract negotiations.
VirtualFrappe how about fixing the log in button first on their application for android and ios user.. it was very disturbing to found out that you can't read a novel cause you can't normally log-in just like what you did before.
Noire I dare qidian to block ppl, stop saying the same thing again and again.
What do you mean by demanding ppl, ppl who visit qidian increase their hits and traffic which means a decent ad revenue. It's not about right or wrong it's about what the majority of your consumers want.
DarkLordMisty via. Paypal?
ucoqid Have you tried download movies that showed in cinemas 3 yrs later?
Barewolf I like the personality and perspective that you see for the improvement of the everything.
I'm happy that there is Premium For Free. Thank you so much for including this option!
Elephantgun Although they give some alternative options, still majority of consumers?
Flezxy what makes you more favorable? having a premium membership for a month or just buying some SS stone to unlock the following chapters. hmmm.. looks like there is a small similarity between the two..
Calm down mates, we got PFF, still hoping for that ad = chapter unlock thingy though, as it's good for us and Qi will reap benefits too, 1 minute of wasted life only....
ucoqid
Yeah I get it, really, my point is its not like its premium(bad naming of qidian-make it sound quite special i guess) is pay to read, it's not. Flaff is intentionally and maliciously trying to make it look bad. It will not force you to pay for SS just to read premium. You receive SS everyday for free just by checking in, voting, and in the future a dedicated watchable ads that will give you additional SS. No one even mentioned that qidian is currently losing in the ads side and can't give enough royalties to their translators and editors. Did anyone mention that? No one did and its in the damn announcement. Every complaint made has always been selfishly claiming for something that they have not earned for for themselves.
Does that mean that patreon releases should also be perfectly translated and edited? Why didn't flaff mention that? xD I've found dozens of misspelled words, grammar errors, none that annoying. I'm sure someone will make a comeback "patreon is all about support" well then premium chapters are also for support, so why are people so intent on targeting only this?
Remember, even if you hate this website, this website is currently supporting many translators and editors. Not to mention that most of people's beloved chinese novel came from qidian. So stop being bitter and petty and move on. We are here for our reading choices not to be annoyed by some political movement.
Clone well at your point of view, you can still pay nothing by just waiting for chapter to be unlock like you must wait after 200 days.. hahahaha
Zefipalu I agree I would rather pay for an ebook with good editing since some translations need more work and I would not pay for a book with that kind of quality. And if I like the novel I would buy the book. I think Gravity Tales released their first ebook.
Noire Dude I agree with you.
Lets support QI