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..
Introducing the Premium program BETA, giving you advanced chapters!
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
Hyper_pumpkin nope, but I'm sure you have to without pirate it. cause I've spend US$1 for ps2 game that released ten years ago. US$1.
and just to reminder, you said 3 months before.
Primal_Moz lets do try to ask the admin to increase the number to spirit stones gain when waiting for the ad to get it finished.
WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL Just answer this question: Why the costs for each chapter is not the same? One was 14, the next 13, the last 19. There's a formula that calculates the cost of the chapter based in the number of letters / lines / time that you spend translating? If so, where's the methodology? It will be public? I will get refund (in SS) if the methodology is not right? I will need to pay to get SS and then spend in random chapters to discover if is a chapter that was worth or not (in terms of length x price)?
The premium series will be just for the most popular series? New series will not be supressed if they become premium before they have N number of chapters? And the series that is in sync with China (like The Path Toward Heaven), they will never become premium? Or I will need to pay everyday to read what the author have written? If so, new and less popular series will never earn money?
And more, as studied by Mikhail Bakhtin, Ângela Fanini, Guglielmo Cavallo & Roger Chartier and Socorro Vilar, all of then are specialists in Literature, more specific in Feuilleton (and between you and me, we can more than agree that webnovels are the feuilleton of XXI century), say that this type of business model give more incentives for the author to write as many chapters as possible without carrying with quality (fillers; recurrent use of melodramatic and theatrical elements like use of four basic feelings: fear, enthusiasm, pain and laughter, each personified by four characters, the Traitor, the Punisher, the Victim and the Fool; GOOD x EVIL; divide history into three basic acts: in the first act, the harmony of the family is disturbed by some factor; in the second, the forces of Evil seem to triumph; finally, in the third, the hero overcomes the forces of Evil and reestablishes the old order; etc...). obviously some good thing can come from this, like Crime and Punishment or The Count of Monte Cristo or The Three Musketeers (that were as we know now, heavily edited and with a lot of cuts if compared with the original compilation) , but as cited above and observable in a lot of Qindian novels this business model may inflict a bigger drop in quality. What strategy Qindian has to prevent that from happening?
(TL;DR)
There are some problems with this business model and I want to know how they are gonna fix it?
SomeMnlightSculptr i thought ''ad'' chapters are already been removed and make it as a premium instead.