• Qidian Official

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

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.

                            ydim hi ydim, hows sev and lnmtl?
                            yeah those chapters, but not of all novels. only of those that are in premium list.
                            they said that adswall were at loss, so they try this new wall to get a better revenue(?).

                            • ydim replied to this.

                                Cheguvera read the OP again. with the previous adwall they're at loss. if they keep it like that, what'd happen? they'd go bankrupt and we'd lose our favorite novels.
                                so, lets just support them (premium program) for the moment until they get steady foundation and such.
                                if you can't pay for for the premium service, just be patient and wait for the regular free chapters. or you can collect free ss by doing ss missions, you won't get much but better than nothing.

                                    AreYouTheEye I see, that helps. I hope this site can find a good biz model in order to continue, I'm just afraid if ads aren't cutting it, it's going to be a bit tough... After all, most users are free users and this site's popularity shouldn't be huge enough to pull in the paying members it needs (at least I don't think so).

                                    I'm not commenting too much in lnmtl lately fellow mtl-daoist. With so many comments in ATG and silly arguments, I'm taking this opportunity to meditate on my insights and consolidate my cultivation. (lol)

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