Introducing the Premium program BETA, giving you advanced chapters!
What a fantastic argument.
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i can't understand the negative comments.
authors, translators and editors needs money for daily necessity.
with steady income they can focus on this job and gives us steadier release rate, otherwise they'll find another job to get better income and this job will only be side-job in which they won't focus on and we might not get steady release or worst, it stop .
do you know how many authors didn't finish their novel (or slowing down their release) because of real life problem (mostly financial)? how many loose translators disappeared like a thin air before finishing their novel because of the same problem?
give the authors, translators, editors and qi what they deserve as they gives us what we deserve. lets be fair.
if you can't or just don't want to pay (by purchasing ss) then don't, we can always read the free chapter anyway.
to be honest, i can't participate in this premium program simply because i can't open paypal account (due to my country policy). but i still support my favorite novels by clicking those adds because they deserve it, and they deserve more.
i support fully any programs qi's made for them (authors, translators, editors and qi) to get more money. of course qi also have to give us free readers our dose regularly.
*just my opinion
Positive_Lullaby Actually you get +5 for power stone daily vote and +5 for energy stone daily vote + the random daily checkin. This gives 17 to 22 SS per day so you might be able to read 2 "premium" chapters a day on top of the free one.
Guess I should use these spirit stones to become an immortal to learn Chinese faster.
ihateqi Haha loves your name there. How many novels are you reading to run out of SS?
can't find any information on how to become a premium member...
Sighhhhhhhhhhhh
the price of ss doubles from 4 to 8???
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AreYouTheEye You can't understand because you are willing to pay for a service that used to be supported through add revenue. I don't want to create a paypal account in order to read my novels. In addition, the quality of this translation is nowhere near the quality of what you find in a book.
Translators already receive from patreon and add revenue. This is all greed. Reading 100 premium chapters in this website costs as much as a book in a bookstore.
Supreme_Idler dude you can read normal books in real life for free. You know there is a thing called library, maybe you don't know it exists.
Let me tell you a library exists and is free to use. You borrow a book and then you return it after reading.
Why the fug cookies would I give money away to make a multimillion dollar company more rich.
I'm sure the translators and authors get jack shit out of it. They are prob contractual locked so they can't say anything negative otherwise you lose ya small bread that qidian gives you.
WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL cheap? not compared to the free ones on novelupdates!
you really disappoint me yet again. you have so many stories where they mention killing the chicken for the eggs.
watch your revenue of videos go down, by your own doing (1 daily video instead of 1/chapter) and watch the pitiful amount of people stupid enough to pay for something they can get for free, and maybe that'll put your greedy little ass back in a rational mindset...
hahahahaha
yeah, it's like, hey you don't pay for the chapter,
you pay for the money (spiritstones) that you use to pay for the chapter!!!
yaaayyy, it's (technically) not paywall!! hahaha you take us for stupid assholes!!!! hahahahahahahahaha... fuck you
How about a badge for accumulated SS for users who haven't bought any? Just to show how much us hoarders can make :P
4U6U57 yup, 1 a day, so, like, half a chapter a day? if you count the fact that they'll pay in spirit stones for you watching, and they're greedy little fucks?
they'll give less and less, maybe just one stone after a while?
Rokuman_24 ah. .you're right. .
Yudi They are contractually bound to share profits equally with the authors. So after the translators/editors take their cut, whatever is left is split between the authors and Qidian. This results in a win-win-win situation between TL/Editors-Authors-Qidian.
So for instance, if the TL/Editor team gets 70%, authors will get 15%, and Qidian gets 15%.
I honestly would've preffered some sort of flat fee per month (Netflix basically) rather than this pay per chapter with spirit stones system that's coming...
My personal problem with this "premium"progam is not as much about the paywall as it is with the fact that if you stop paying for chapter you get stuck, after all, if I pay SS to read the next 10 chapters before schedule, that means that I won't have any chapters for the next week because those chapters that I have already paid for are the ones that will get unlocked next week, so there will be there nothing for me and i have to pay once again, aside from that huge "flaw" i am not that concerned about this new method (for now).
Honestly, I find a bit exaggerated the fuss about the amount of chapters released per week getting reduced (If it actually is reduced in the first place, I have no idea) (at least for now), because even if it is reduced from, let's say, 14 to 7, it would still be pretty good for a being free release (However, I would be preocupied if they did that to the chapters of less frequently updated novels (can't give examples because I am kind of new)
Ze0ns You have right to not pay them any, and they never force you to pay anyway.
you said that i can't understand but can you understand?
Ze0ns Translators already receive from patreon and add revenue.
Then how about QI and authors?
QI pay their translators a fixed rate even before they started their website. To put it simply, they INVESTED MONEY. They didn't earn anything at the start, instead, they gave their OWN money to pay the translators and editors, hoping for them to provide work that will gain them profits in the future. Qi is not a fan translation site, it is a business, owned by a company, IN ORDER TO GET RETURN OF INVESTMENT. To put it simply: Qi sends money first, then they wait for the ads to let them earn back what they give.
About adds thingy, look at the announcement, Qi is operating at a lost. What does it mean bro? The money they are investing is SO MUCH MORE THAN WHAT THEY EARN BACK. The fixed payment for the translators are still there, BUT THEY ARE NOT EARNING ANYTHING BACK. Why would the investors or the people behind Qi continue supporting or pouring in money on something that will never provide them profits or even RETURN OF INVESTMENT (ROI)? -copied from Arch's
QI also said they pay (royalties) to authors (both them and QI don't get any from patreon), so its only natural for QI to find a way to get more money so they can avoid bankcruptcy and pay their workers and authors.
Even if all of that reasons are lies and they're just being greedy like you said, i don't see anythings wrong with them wanting to earn more money.
They respect us by giving us free chapters and free SS regularly (they actually don't have any obligation to satiate our greed for free chapters), can't we show some respect by supporting them? we don't have to pay money for that, just respect their commercial programs would do.