Arch BUT THEY ARE NOT EARNING ANYTHING BACK.

How do you know that? Have you some insider info? They already started earning money ever since the pay for stones option got released. People bought crazily and if you don't believe check just the amount of topics after the badges got made. I saw people buying 10k stones at least.

Tho personally I don't even care. I'll read only regular chapters except my 3-4 favorite novels (like the hell I'm gonna use spirit stones for the VRMMO novel)

And also I agree on whatever @Flaffy says.

If you want us to buy the stones you'll have to bring out your A-game dear Qidian. That means every novel should have a translator that is active somewhere so he can be told about the mistakes of his novel and always consistent releases, I won't care if you're sick or busy. As a user who will/may buy the stones I will also want every novel to be perfectly translated. If not I won't pay anymore and I'll ask for a refund on paypal immediately. Also if I keep seeing unedited chapters I will yell it out everywhere and on every social site (reddit, discord, nu forums and etc) that it sucks and flame because I'm the customer and I'm just not satisfied. If I see a novel that is premium not being translated up to the quantity and quality I'm promised for I'll ask for a refund again.

Also the opposite is true, if the chapters are good I won't complain and I'll praise instead.

      Itachi2K3
      Why are you guys supporting them in putting up a paywall??

      It's because of you people that they can do this to us. Before they ever go into the western translation community everything was free and we could support the translators as we see fit.

      Now they want us to support them in order to make them more and more money. Good luck in giving them your wealth to make them richer which you stay in the same place.

      You are content in eating your $10 meals While supporting them so that they can wine and dine in $1000 restaurants.

      Good luck!

          Yudi Did you just copy paste the same thing you wrote on the other thread!?!?!? YOU ARE SO LAZYYYYY LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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              well if the translations and services were premium quality i have 100% of conviction of people ( and me ) just saying "oh its ok thanks"

                Itachi2K3 i hope it is true . " chapters we'll be free eventually "
                Their announcement deserves an F even for a freshman level class.

                  HugeJin dude free chapter a day is pretty good as things go. if that is what QI implements. they could have written a cleaner post rather than this mush. ( sadly they have not learnt any thing ) . great many of translators out in the wild don't even do it.

                    Brodroster I'm more concerned about the pace of the release rather than the time during the day, like if they were 14/week before this feature but suddenly became 10/week after it.

                        Also if they're going to have a premium feature, quality control needs to be vastly improved, transN is awful quality work, you can see from martial arts master and omnipotent sage that they lack understanding of English.

                          Kervy daily check in, power and energy stones vote give us free ss, enough for 2-3 premium chaps/day.

                          ZenByMoonlight they already explain that the adds feature were a loss (they don't get enough money to pay royalties for auth/translat/editor) thats why they launch this premium program.

                          Arch +1

                          GoGo people like you kills a lot of promising authors

                          Arch +1

                                      N0xiety Do you think the translators were being paid fairly back then? Especially for certain novels who's pace was abysmal. For instance look at Lord Xue Ying.... You were lucky if Radiant did 4 in a week(early 2017 and up not sure how it was before). Now if I can get 7 or 8 I'll be happy. How did he/she, or they manage to up the release? Because the pay that they are getting is better than before. No one is going to slave away. So that's the only conclusion to have. If QI is operating at a lost WHILE providing a nice web AND MOBILE(This is a big one... Can read in bed without my phone fucking burning my fingers, and dropping on my chest-- dumb crappy ads), then they deserve some profits. I just wish it was a monthly fee for premium, hopefully during the beta they see it's unsustainable, and instead go REASONABLE rates for premium access. For instance tiers.

                                        Flaffy I wrote “Translators and editors here” in my post. I was referring to the novels HERE. Sure it will be business as usual for other sites if QI shuts down but I am talking about the novels HERE that will be dropped as a result.
                                        If you think that without money as a motivation, the number of chapters released or the amount of novels actually translated out there would remain as how it is presently, may I suggest that you actually look back at the state of translated webnovel scene before people started monetizing it. Yes, there will still be people translating. Will the weekly release be as high if money is out of the equation? Will some novels even continue being translated by the same translated if money is out of the equation? No. Note the SOME I wrote there in case you think I’m saying ‘OMFG WEBNOVELS GONA DIE NOBODY GONA TL ANYMORE”

                                          AreYouTheEye earning money is one of the way of qidian to make stand for its company, why some people complaining about the new update of qidian, I dont get it why some readers want it for free, its one way to support them and yet there are some selfish people -_-

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