• Qidian Official

  • Introducing the Premium program BETA, giving you advanced chapters!

actually i know this will happen and i know its a must because yea every business need profit but there is only few problem with this program.. here it is

i know it say advance chapter so u need to pay with spirit stone to unlock chapter that is ok but this advance chapter in not being implement right just like how most translator that use patreon... if u want to follow like patreon at least follow it correctly...let say patreon user can get 10 advance chapter than what is post as u can say free chapter that is post in web so that to say u implement this u also need to unlock free daily chapter that is suppose to be release daily not like now where all new chapter is lock... if u want to do this like if that novel have 3 free daily chapter everyday u at least need to unlock 3 chapter for free/add watch like before and add 3 lock chapter everyday... that how patreon work this premium now... sorry to say it ignore the suppose be must do daily chapter

Meh Lmao, I love how you paint WW as the bad guys here, but conveniently ignore the scummy practices QI has done to WW, one of the founders of the Chinese webnovel translation community who has always tried to do the best for users. Remember contract agreement then the DMCA right afterwards? Remember copy and pasting? You're almost as bad as CKTalon. By the way, did you even bother to read it? He never directly bashed QI. He outlined the directions it could take: 1. retaining the status quo, 2. making it worse for readers. The fact that you're so defensive about it is both hilarious and concerning.

Oh yeah, you also conveniently skipped the part where RTW release rate is being cut in half for free readers. I personally don't use patreon, but if I wanted to spend money, I'd feel better about spending more money on Bao than spending less money on this shitty conglomerate. The fact is that if you're not a premium reader on Qidian, good luck trying to finish a book because god knows how long it will take. For a free reader, then you're actually translating at around half the speed of Bao. Great analysis and comparison. Honestly, if you've learned anything from the whole CKTalon incident, you really shouldn't be trying to defend QI, because face it, you're as big of a shill as you claim Bao is. At least RWX and WXW has always supported this community.

    AreYouTheEye it's not a bug though... since QI model is working that way... you pay 4 advanced chapter... but the next 4 day... the free chapter is the one you paid... being premium reader means you forsake all free chapter...

      Meh i hope so.... actually QI got major negative respose because they increase the stones cost for bonus chapter along with implementing this new system... i think they should release this system with original 4 stones per chapter first... but also state this is beta... and tell reader this is "promo price"... stone perchapter price will increase after beta finish... etc...etc... then after the system accepted... try to formulate the price and increase it "slowly"... that way reader could accept the system positive vibe first... before implement the price increase which always give negative vive...

      current approach make people feel repulsive...because those two ilreleased at the same time... which give this system negative vibe...

          The stupid thing about this system is that anything you purchase will become available to free readers a day later. If you wanna stay ahead of the free readers, you need to pay for every single chapter that comes out, and that is gonna be much more expensive than a patreon. If you use stones to read a chapter early, and you have no intention of buying them on a consistent basis, then you will have to wait longer for the next chapter since you have to wait for them to go through the chapter you just read.

            Ze0ns yes... that's why i suggesting some small incentive (partial small stones refund) when free chapter comes out... but we already unlock it... or else unlocking chapter means giving up on all free chapter that we could get...

            Or... decrease the price for unlocking the chapter...

              @WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL. Just a suggestion... Why don't you implement the premium like this.

              For example, there's already 14 chapters a week, what you'll do is add more like 7 chapters a week and set it as the premium chapters. Not halving the releases for a week.

              JrExceed Euh, some novel that i will not name that is not even in the top 20 charge between 14 and 18 ss a chapter... just him alone will cost you about 150 ss. That is just for one novel. If i add the other novel i read i am close to 300 ss and i am refraining from reading all the one i want...

              Qdian seem to be forgetting that not all of us use USD has a currency so we need to add the exchange rate in the math.

                  I wish they would just implement a subscription base instead of this type of thing. I’d rather just pay a monthly fee instead of this.

                  try to copy patreon but they too money grubber so they fail...they didnt unlock the suppose free daily chapter and add new lock chapter and yes like someone say this is worse than patreon because at least patreon is like 1~ 1000 buck a month and u have steady advance 10~50 chapter than other reader but here every chapter is must pay overtime u pay like 10 time what u need to pay patreon to read same or less chapter

                    Meh amen.. tell them meh... keep up the good work u can even boost more chapters of rtw if u want too i believe alot will churn money on rtw.. and yea compare to petreon this is cheaper as a petreon member for KoG and for GGP's BTTH i can say this is way cheaper and i can manage which chapter i hnlock which is the best since i mostly skip the church talk and the recetly added soul appartment talk im rtw hahaha

                        I'm not sure if I understand, are premium chapters (advanced chapters) the same as the chapters you could usually get by watching an ad?

                        If so, why remove the 'watch' ad option? Is that a business decision?

                        Either way, it personally wouldn't impact me THAT much, but if I had the choice I'd take playing the ads. I wouldn't mind even more ads on the site, honestly as those don't bother me as much (ofc as long as it doesn't make the site unusable).

                        Anyway I'm sure the team must have done plenty of research into it already, but just leaving my 2c.

                          So today confirms that you get 1 free chapter per day from the moment the three novels went premium (chapter 690 for immortal mortal).

                          If you unlock the next chapter with SS it is still counted in the free chapter pool, this means you get NO free chapter the next day.

                          This is a significant downgrade to the free reader experience, it also proves that QI is trying to further monetize the free user base as the only reason for changing the free model is to "persuade" people who used to be able to read 3 chapters per day to buy SS in order to continue doing so.

                          People saying this is just patreon moved to QI are full of it.

                          they said 7 free chapter +10 premium chapter for week.
                          and now i have 12 premium chapter and no free chapter at all since this new update, and its not even 1 week yet

                          Lovemusic101 Well I Guess we have the same perspective when it comes to business, we can't just avoid the negativity of the thrills of the others when it comes to their reading habits

                              I personally find this a very dumb decision this will possible drive people to use illegal/alternative sources to read in the future after their ss or patience runs out. But this is my personal opinion and I could be wrong.

                              Dear Admin,

                              Your site is wonderful and fabulous, I appreciate all the work you have done till now. The best thing about the site is to discover new novels and reading, commenting and rating it. To check the opinion of the ever growing user-base after every chapter itself was a novel experience to me, I got hooked.

                              However this recent change has segregated the users as those who can pay and those who can't or unwilling to pay. I think the Ad-supported version was much better than this premium service.

                              Request you to revert back to earlier mode otherwise once the spirit stones are depleted we are going to look for free resources as it is in the human nature and gradually the user-base will reduce, the site won't be fun any more and you will be left with only premium users, then this site will stop being a community and will only function as client-service model.

                              Regards,
                              One among many.

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