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A majority of novels are going premium to the point that you have to dish out basically over 30-100$ or more a month just to continue reading your favorite novels.

I basically ran out of spirit stones all free from check-ins plus from voting and it's still not enough to satisfy the 7-12 spirit stones per chapter and chapters are usually mass release by about 5-10 chapters or more.

The Lord's Empire (Gravity Tales), Reincarnation of the Strongest Sword God(Gravity Tales) used to be good novels until they went full on premium. so the only most decent video game type novels I can read is not on Qidian which is a good thing.

Even newer novels can become premium if their popular enough regardless of ranking.

So basically the Qidian website will become full-on premium in the future home to new novels and tons of premium only novels (costing spirit stones for every chapters including the 1st chapter, which I assume their going to do in the future to earn more money).

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      im annoyed by the fact that they just locked like 100 plus chapters for certain novels,
      like i had a bunch of novels i was just letting pile up chapters in my library so can come back and binge read after the
      chapters piled up but now when i got back to the them i find out their locked.

      Now it seems that any story that goes premium will get almost all there chapters locked so previously free and ad locked chapters cost stones even if you've already read them and from what I've seen after September there are no longer any free 1 a day chapters for premium stories.

        LonyeiMagi they would not get first 40 chapters or first 100 000 words premium, cause they need to bait customers into the novel

            WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL Seeing that a lot of chapters are locked and no longer can be unlocked by watching ads. Plus if I bought some chapters and I don't receive free unlocked chapters until the free chapters gets to where I ran out of SS. I need to wait a lot. Days, weeks, maybe months. With novels having 1000+ chapters, maybe years? For full-time translators. Not waiting for the authors to write their books. Your current business model is good for you, good for the translators, maybe the authors, but it is very bad for the readers.

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                Gralorn I have stopped reading RTW in the beginning of august and still no free chapter have being unlocked since then so yeah i think free chapter are gone or i am so far in advance with the chapter i have unlocked that i still need to wait to for the free chapter to catch off... If it's the case i think it's pretty stupid because i am close to 100 chapters behind the last one released at the moment...

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                    carfat A thousand times this. I have had two books that I had unlocked /MANY/ chapters only to end up relocking all of said chapters with no warning what-so-ever. Before I would pay to unlock again I would just read them elsewhere.

                    Also, I just noticed a new problem, things I have unlocked on the mobile app are not unlocking when viewing from PC, same account of course.

                        KoolAid I'm having the same problem, but I'm talking to CKtalon about it in this post ,
                        he has asked dev's to look into this
                        can I suggest you do as I did take screen pics and post them as to me this now seems to be a site-wide problem

                        https://forum.webnovel.com/d/16884-unlocked-chapters-has-been-lock/24

                        can i suggest you do as i did take screen pics and post them as to me this now seems to be a site-wide problem

                            "Read in advance" apparently means "Block stuff that has been out for years already because money"...

                              carfat Because they want your money.

                              I'm honestly not surprised, they even locked down translations that have been out for a year or so, possibly even longer. Novels I've come back to catch up on have suddenly lost half their chapters behind a paywall, leaving me with less of the story than I had a year ago, even after I put in stones.

                              Long story short, just skip this BS and pirate it from elsewhere (though don't do that for independent TLers!)

                                  WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL I would happily support you, if not for the fact that every time I come here, even more chapters seem to be locked away while the ones I've unlocked are back behind a paywall again...

                                  I've read 700+ chapters of RTW and yet I can now only read 350 or so...

                                  Translations are supposed to go forwards as time goes on, not backwards.

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                                      RussIsWatchinU You also have to wonder how much the authors actually get payed, because you can watch ads to get stones ( and you get daily free stones) qui Dian would essentially be printing money for their authors if they got nothing from you buying a chapter. This makes me hesitate to buy SS because I would be basically paying for chapters and even more money than the initial "tax" that quidian probably takes off the top, is still ending up in quidians pocket, you would essentially be paying once to quidian to buy a chapter that the author won't even get the full value of the currency off. The free SS would also cause inflation resulting in more expensive chapters.

                                          now, i know. based on mixing all the stuff i gound out, i think webnovel promised that they will translate for free but readers were the ones who suggested the premium stuff?

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