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WildRammusino from my understanding all chapter are premium chapters from now on and they unlock 7 of those chapters every week in RTWs case i agree i could become scary but if they stick with the current system then that is fine imo if they fuck it up well then they lost my money in the long run

CKtalon IT DOESN'TREALLY MATTER TO ME ILL WATCH AD AND WASTE MY TIME TO SOOTHE MY ADDICTION LOL

N0xiety Do they? They're trying to earn money from their venture, and that looks very normal in my eyes. And if this works as intended, why should they change it? They won't want to alienate their reader base unnecessarily, since that'll result in a loss for them.

I read webnovels because they are free. Webnovels are popular because they are free. I can ignore translation errors, typos, mixed up names, never ending incomplete story, low quality in general etc. because it is free.

For payment, I prefer a finished, polished, complete ebook I can read offline on Kindle. It doesn't have to be sold on Amazon, I'm happy to buy a epub/mobi file on this or any other platform (avoid amazon fees). Something I paid for stays with me forever, even if the website no longer exists.

For stories I really like, I would be willing to pre-order the ebook (to be available as download when the translation is complete - good faith offer incomplete downloads until then). In an ebook series it should at least cover a major arc per installment. Of course the price should be fair as well (can't spend hundreds dollars on a single story, can't spend money I don't have).

I understand this clashes with your business model (people need to visit the site, watch ads, and be enticed to spend $ per chapter, even if that adds up to a scary cost [price of single chapter * total chapters left in the story]). So it probably won't be happening.

I will read here as long as it's possible to do so.

Hell no to microtransactions... Would prefer monthly membership.

Can you please add the exact time the freemium chapters will be out please?

STOP MISLEADING PEOPLE!!! With your baseless assumptions. Premium chapters are bonus chapters for those who wants to buy more SS and support the site. RtW just now released its scheduled chapter. The weekly chapter will not change, they just increased the available chapters so that people who have the intention to support the site can use SS to further advance their reading.

WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL this is the worst update because what would happen if someone already use spirit stone to read premuim chapter with their daily update? Are they get free access to next premium update or still need using spirit stone to read it? If the second choice then it would be worst case ever and if later then it would be the same principle as patreon

Face_Smacking_Dao The worst update would be (for freemiums) they go yen press style. Claim all the translated qidian chinese novels around the web(Coiling dragon, etc.) that are published from their main site(raw), and sell it in their own website via ebook.
For the information of what happens with next premium release, I for one have no clue, and I'm not one to assume(it makes an ass of u and me) so I'd say I have no idea. I'd wait and see it for myself next week.
Anyways, seriously though, what the heck have you people been doing with your spirit stones? Spending it like there's no tomorrow? lol xD

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

N0xiety

Really Am I? Where's your evidence that stated that? Mine came from just now, RtW still release their qouta chapter for today. Where did you get such info then? I have not read that, surely that's not just a rumor spreading around, spread by you?Is that an official statement please lead me to it and let me read the fine print of announcement.

Damn can't edit previous post xD
Anyways in addition. Even if that is to be the case, you will have enough daily free SS to unlock premium chapters. So...I still don't get the outrage from this. Would you rather then have qidian international take things drastically? Massive take down notices to all other websites that has translated or currently translating from the (raw) qidian site. Like what yen press did with japanese novels.

Noire You want proof? Here's your proof!
https://acts.webnovel.com/2018/6094045/index.html

Release That Witch
17 ch/week release rate

Free chapters?
1 ch/day

So free chapters = 7/week
Total chapters = 17/week

It's not hard to do the math right?

10 premium chapters added into the premium pool every week

After 3 months if you stay as a free reader, you will be 120 chapters behind the premium. And that is considering that Qi won't decrease the release rate for free readers. Do you understand now?

MysticalOrigin do not expect you can get many, buddy. since it was FUCKING-cheap, anyway.

N0xiety Free chapters?=1 Seriously?
It's stated there PREMIUM FOR FREE |Thursday|1|
"In the PFF, we will release one or more premium chapters from the premium titles based on a schedule."
It's a premium chapter for free, premium chapter is not included in the chapter normal chapters per week. Indicated by RtW released chapter earlier.

Also premium users are not limited to those who pay for SS, everyone who are registered to the qidian site and are getting their daily free SS can be considered as a premium user. Above I stated I still don't get the rage from all of this. Even if those premium chapters released more and more, aren't you also getting free SS everyday? So...yeah.

WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL
I have a question about the premium for free. It shows a day by day basis of what are going to be free but how many chapters are going to be free per day.

Similar to Cinemas
Pay - watch now
Wait for couple of 3 months - free
See. . . . .

WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL We believe that one day, Webnovel translators, editors, and authors globally will be able to see their jobs as full-time professions, and the beginning of that is today.

Well someone call Billdoor, the shiz is happening! What did you say before you naysayer? Cannot happen, Not anytime soon? Well it looks like Qidian bout to be rolling in some more dough to pay for those translators and editors.

Cue random rant and rave about things that need to be fixed with the money brought by such shamelessness:
Be sure to make a process that for every novel, there must be a Translator and a SEPARATE! Editor.... make that the first priority for this full-time job listing stuff. Like seriously...it's important. And don't forget to get people to go back through the chapters and fix those horrible mistakes that have yet to be fixed. I see Release that Witch is on there yeah as a premium? Well I won't be buying none of that, the following threads have received no comments as to fixing the translation mistakes. Maybe you didn't notice, it's probably about time to do a clean sweep before you make something premium. And are we guaranteed that Release that Witch won't have anymore glaring mistakes? I'm just saying, if I am paying for it, it should at least be proofread right?
https://forum.webnovel.com/d/1338-release-that-witch-chapter-357
https://forum.webnovel.com/d/1335-release-that-witch-chapter-344

Very serious question coming up, what is the difference between a Premium for Free? And a regular Free user? Is it just that one extra chapter? that you don't have to buy with SS? I am highly confused....is this just some random ploy to make people think they are included when in reality they are just like every other poor sap? I feel like it is.

It's funny cause Release that Witch is legit the only novel I really read that's premium. It's so weird that it's Premium cause every chapters it seems i find a translation mistake. Not really clean enough to pay for but whatever.