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Dragonheck i only sort of understood your rant because it has no punctuation, anyway hi i'm the TL for RTW, if you spend money on this site you support me and last i checked i wasn't some machine, i TL this story because i like it :)

derangedlol i've always said. patreon is a gigantic scam that milks readers for craptons of money and gives them very few extra chapters. this is waaaaaaaaaaaaay better for readers.

WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL so im sitting here wonder when and how can i purchase this premium i needed, just take my money and give my premium or create premium ++ for more chapter im goinh to buy it right now!!!

KoolAid do you value your time so little that youd rather waste a minute and a half watching ads than paying like 5 cents? lol

I can understand why they are creating these premium accounts, it's like when i read the stories in the Chinese novel apps, I need to spend money to "purchase" those locked chapters after I had read through the free chapters. You have to understand that some of these authors are full time authors who practically spend all their time writing novels and they charge a small amount for every 1000 chinese characters. So for each chapter, I may need to spend like maybe 6 token or something like that, depending on the number of characters for 1 chapter and normally I can spend like 1.5k or more tokens for 300 chapters. In a sense, we are "buying" the novels to read, similar to buying a book form the bookstore. The authors needs to eat too, just like us.... If the premium accounts are at a price that is reasonable to me, I really won't mind supporting them. Just think about it, nothing is free and the translators time and efforts should not be free too.

Meh lol what the fuck are you on. The only person that this benefits is QI. Translators on QI get paid per chapter, meaning they get none of the spirit stone money. Example (copy and pasted from /u/baoluvba, translator for Emperor's Domination)

I'm copy and pasting some of my comments on NU.

If there is no change in regular schedule, then it is just Patreon. If some series are purposely lowering the weekly free chapters for premium chapters, then that's a different story, but I'm sure we need to see the actual implementation before making any judgment.

Some people have said that certain series will lower the free weekly rate, and use some of those chapters as premium. That will be a net-loss for free users, but this is all speculations.

What does that mean? For example, I would be releasing 7 chapters of ED instead, and 7 would be going to premium each week.

Overall, the changes are fine unless the free rate is changed. It is just like Patreon except translators are much worse off.

As for how much translators get from this, it will be much less than before, unless the scene has a new influx of readers. Imagine this, this is essentially Patreon with a huge % going to the site and authors instead of just to the translators. Now, I'm not saying that there is a problem with giving money to the authors but 50% is a substantial amount unless the pie gets much larger.

From my own experience and the reader amount for QI, translators will make much less money unless the model has a high initial price and more are willing to pay on the website versus Patreon, which I don't see happening.

Patreon is fueled by people with disposable income for the higher tiers. This will remove those options, unless they keep the tiers the same for the on-site chapters.

This is Qidian's way of taking back money from the translators after seeing that the real money is in Patreon. Noted, they were going to do this regardless to match the Chinese mode.

It's hard to say that as the scene grows, this model will outstrip the earning that translators got from Patreon, especially with the 50% reduction. I don't think any translator should be happy about this move from a financial perspective, but I can't predict the future.

Cilliez just only follow RTW ;) daily free spirit stones is enough ;)

LordFourth they'll keep it but stop releasing extra chapters (it'll just be literally donations to the TL )

Daoling i mean lets be honest, patreon is way worse than this. costs soooo much more money for way fewer chapters.

XxurraxX still better than patreon, where you pay way more money for way fewer chapters and if you ever stop you also fall behind. but thanks for understanding :)

Will join if my favorite novel on premium list.

Bull maybe they'll come out with one one day, but for now that'd be too overpowered haha. look on most people's patreons, its like $10 per month for being like 2 chapters ahead, no increase in release rate, for a single book

TearsOfRose NO! SPEND THEM ON RTW ;D

WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL Initially, i was mad. However, i understand now. I hope the best for this beta.

derangedlol what are you talking about, bao works for ww and has every financial incentive for QI to fail as hard as possible lol. you realize i'm the translator for RTW right. i get paid for spirit stone money.

this is way better than patreon. lets take bao's, which is at a similar release rate to my own book. to stay 10 chapters ahead it costs you $40 per month on emperor's domination. patreon is the biggest scam ever. $40 per MONTH dude. RTW costs you less than 8 cents a day for less than 3 dollars a month. he just translates at the exact same pace just like we do except he charges you almost 10 times as much per chapter lol. you're getting scammed and you dont even know it

Estriole no problem thanks for your feedback!
the exact cost and formula for things might change in the future, its just the release model itself that we want readers to get accustomed to

Good luck and success!!!
Author, translator, editor and all of you who bring this to us is the best,

The system Qi implements right now is tugging my heartstrings

Meh

Hah! I don't even read RTW x'D But very funny, Meh.

Estriole WEBNOVEL this new system is not too good and might need improvement... i have unlock some advanved chapter (about 4 or 5 chapter) and then next day i realize today free chapter is the one i unlocked.l yesterday... so i lose one free chapter here by unlocking it... maybe some small compensation... maybe partial stones returned??

Estriole if its truly happened, open your own thread/discussion, tag it as report bug. they'll answer you asap (probably)