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Leo Same here. T ^ T
Will we still be able to watch ads to unlock premium chapters? Because that was always my go to choice after my daily SS ran out
ihateqi Yes. The video ads will soon be implemented. The devs are most likely working on it.
ihateqi For premium chapters, there is no more ads. We will give you guys another feature in few weeks to allowing you watching ads to get bonus SS rewards.
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..
ihateqi Haha loves your name there. How many novels are you reading to run out of SS?
ihateqi nope
The content was well explained and well put. And it is business after all. Can't expect everything for free.... So All the best for your future endeavors!!
kishenkp But it is actually everything for free. The only thing you need to pay is TIME. You can still paying nothing to read everything by just wait a bit
kishenkp it was never for free as they where always paid revenue from the ads we watch to get the chapter apparently though it was not enough :(
Clone I'm not entirely sure that's what they said...
"You can still get Spirit Stones, which can be used to access premium chapters, by daily check-ins, voting, inviting friends, participating in community events, and even watching video ads on a daily basis (this will be implemented soon)."
This implies that video ads will still appear in some form.
4U6U57 after all, video ads is much more profitable
4U6U57 From what I understand, you watch ads to earn Spirit Stones.
4U6U57 Thats saying getting stones by watching ads Not unlocking chapter. Well anyway it will have been blocked sigh guess I can live my life in a productive way from now on. Have to thx qidian for that.
4U6U57 does watching ads give us SS? How much
4U6U57 i think it will probably like some games. You know.. they give u boosts for watching ads. Instead they will give certain spirit stones for the ads. And it seems like they will release free chapters too. Except the 10 advance chapters will be locked to spirit stones T_T .... well, it looks similar to donating in patreons so, i don't know unless some things happen i guess haha ;O
4U6U57 not on release that witch its blocked on all those chapters now
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?
4U6U57 No it's video ads to get say 1 stone to try paying a chapter that can cost 12 so now it's 12 ads to read versus the original 1
ahaha I like it
deikatsuo I dont
deikatsuo I can watch vidoes all day but just hoping its not super annoying to read a new book and having to spend 5-10 bucks to catch up
CKtalon Yeah lol, I just noticed after trying to read something.
Whelp, hopefully they implement that feature sooner than later, and for now, RIP my spirit stone stash (and hopes of saving up to Such Wealth badge). 😪
CKtalon IT DOESN'TREALLY MATTER TO ME ILL WATCH AD AND WASTE MY TIME TO SOOTHE MY ADDICTION LOL
8 ss instead of 4.... well... *sigh
LiZhiEr Its okay atleast they didn't remove the free spirit stones
LiZhiEr thats a problem actually
WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL never said I didn't like it. I like the direction, no worries.
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.
4U6U57 I doubt you'd be able to do that with the free spirit stones expiring after 60 days.
Clone You'll be able to unlock all chapters with SS, which you'll be able to get from watching ads, logging in, voting, and other stuff, so you can still stay free if you really want
How to purchase the premium?you should make another thread about the way for purchasing..make it easy for the consumer? 🧐
DarkLordMisty Basically just buy SS.
DarkLordMisty via. Paypal?
DarkLordMisty Or aside from PAYPAL, provide other ways.
WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL It's great that Qidian is working in a direction where all parties will get to benefit and grow in the long run.
As Qidian grows, we're able to ensure a high quality of translation on all novels while being the readers get to enjoy an elevated standard of enjoyment.
Kudos to the team for their effort!
Barewolf I like the personality and perspective that you see for the improvement of the everything.
Barewolf Hello a question that I find hard to say: All the novels from now on will have this format?
DarkGem Hmm maybe free reader like me can survive with the ads But ultimately the stones that can be got from ads to thats needed for chaps will be low.
Well I can't say to qidian to give everything for free . They are a company and their goal is profit .
What pains me is that it all used to be free . its like colonist coming and taking the freedom from the natives.
DarkGem For how long tho? That's the question... This is how Qidian works. They implement things slowly. We are like frogs that are slowly boiling. We don't notice it since Qi doesn't throw us into a boiling pot immediately. If they did that we would just jump out. But by increasing the temperature slowly, us frogs will stay untill we boil and die...
In any case, this is literally just an in-house Patreon.
VirtualFrappe You are right. I would very much prefer the old method. View ads then read. I bet once they implemented the paywall, watching an ad = 1 spirit stone. Basically you need to watch more than ten ads just to read another chapter. Way too different from before wherein you only need to watch 1 ad to read a new chapter.
VirtualFrappe but does this mean eventhough you're premium here you also have to donate or something in patreon if you want to read advanced chapters?
If it was a monthly prem payment membership then I’d understand. But this is truly milking the addiction.
Flezxy yes its miliking. If it was just a monthly payment Like Netflix It would have made sense instead of this sport stone nonsense.
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..
I'm going to condense this in a manner that is easy to understand instead of using corporate talk. The novels that are chosen for "premium" have all future chapters locked behind a Spirit Stone payment, based upon word count. The chapters that had been placed in this premium pool are made available to non-SS readers at a scheduled rate. This means that those people who have been enjoying 14 chapters a week on their favorite novels will now have to pay Spirit Stones to do the same, as they will only be given access to 7 a week for free. Although the pool of premium chapters is current ten, it will continue to rise as long as the translator outstrips the release schedule, and I would not be surprised if you find triple digits before long—especially for the more prolific translators.
ActiasLuna Thanks for simplifying this post bro, it cleared up alot for me. I was about to ask why legendary guardian chapters cost an average of 15-16 ss to unlock while rtw is only around 8-9 ss. Looks like the number of chapters I’d be enjoying every week just dropped to about half 😔
ActiasLuna Then the chapters behind ss are not advanced chapters but just regular chapters as you just said only 7 chapters will be available per week for free. Advanced chapters should be the chapters released after all 14 chapters have been released per week for the free users.
ActiasLuna thanks. They never really explained how this premium thing worked.