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 lucj

Yudi not everything in the world is free...
And I just made some calculations: 200 words are one spirit stone. If you take the first Harry Potter with 75k words you would get around 375 chapters with 200 words. You can get 100 spirits stone (at the moment) for 1€ (sry, am from EU), so you are paying 4€ for a length comparable to a normal book. I do not find this very expensive

N0xiety Mmh, can't really tell because I only read RtW as of now and excluding the chapters about the dreamworld (10? 15?) I'm satisfied with the content.
(which novels should I avoid because of this?)

Silberkinn Try reading more novels and you will understand. Also please don't go preaching to people if you aren't even effected by the premium change... You can unlock all chapters of RtW with just the bonus points you get from daily free ss missions you get. If RtW is the only novel you read, ofc you won't be effected by premium. But if you are like me, i wonder if you would be fine with premium? I currently follow 22 novels so, if they all become premium, you do the math... Does that come to about $5 - $7 per day? Yeah i ain't payin $200 a month to read web novels sorry....

Silberkinn Except what you get is not on par with Harry Potter. Sometimes the chapter can be just crap to fill space. Info dump.

KingBiBiK You can just wait for the free chapters to come out anyway lol. Heck you can probabaly get a job instead of read web novels all day and use some of that money on your hobby. If your too young to work ask your parents for it or just keep finding free entertainment.

shelwyn

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Actually they do collect your credit card information, says so right there. It does not specify exactly though it does say billing information so maybe they only mean credit card billing information? And it's just a typo that they put and in the middle because they didn't translate properly?

Supreme_Idler

Oh I'm sorry I didn't know everyone had to agree with the "great" suggestion. I will not comment on these types of forums anyways I have been told I am too aggressive, so I will turn a blind eye and let people drown in their own fantasy desires.

Flaffy I might be wrong. I only use the mobile site so when I make a transaction the only way to pay is PayPal. I know for a fact PayPal keeps records but I never directly gave quidan any payment info like debit card numbers they probabaly have my billing address and name though.

It might be different on android app and IOS and desktop site even so it's hard for me to say. I'd assume android and IOS go through Google pay and Apple store respectively and they keep the payment information as well.

shelwyn If you actually do read, you will see my initial post says a similar thing about paypal and how it would be liable if it gave out my info. But as you know, this thread is not about paypal it's about other forms of payment so let's stay on track yeah? Does qidian offer google pay and apple pay? I have never bought anything so.... I literally don't know, but I was never talking about them so.

SORRY IF THAT WAS TOO AGGRESSIVE, I DO NOT KNOW ANY OTHER WAY TO SAY IT WHEN YOU ASSUME AND DO NOT READ WHAT I SAY FULLY

Heavenly_Ant will do.Franklu, payment implement is way more complicated, especially in global basis. I suggest you can use App ans purchsing by IAP. In that case, Apple and Google help developers completed many things in backend. No need to sign agreement with each single local payment channle nor redesign the credit card payment risk control system.

shelwyn You are the one who responded ot my post, not the other way around, I am flaming you because you assumed that I was lying and spreading false info, so I gave you a quote to prove my innocence to which you respond with some random other payments that I never mentioned so who is doing what here bud?

I never said you couldn't trust PayPal, I said if anything paypal will be liable for giving out info, never said they would do it, please don't assume i say anything I did not write, this is the third time you have done so, please stop.
I was originally here, with my original post, to inform users that they should read the terms before they just jump into things.

New payment options may need to be added to the policy, I am not sure, but qidian never spells things out so I am here to give people the other possible outcome since no one ever wants to believe something bad will happen. I am not here for you and it was you who came here and said something to me! do not forget

AGAIN NOT BEING AGGRESSIVE YOU CAME TO ME, AND I AM DEFENDING MY STATEMENTS

Flaffy Hi Flaffy. What does volare, gravity and wuxiaworld say about accepting money in paypal? What does patreon say about it? Please do spell it out. I'd love to see their policies.

Arch I don't know these people for which you speak, but maybe you should ask em. I never once even thought a translator should be allowed to sell another persons work, let alone get copyrights to it for translating.
But this is going down a dark path, so I will not say anymore about that.

And again I say, to people, stop assuming I know something that I never talked about.
Please, it's getting a little old when people keep assuming random shit I never said, referenced, or spoke out about. Thanks.

I DO NOT INTEND TO BE AGGRESSIVE I AM DEFENDING MY STATEMENTS AND EXPRESSING MY DISCOMFORT, PLEASE FORGIVE ANY OFFENSE

Flaffy Industry practices, my dear, industry practices. As for policy, I heard they heard your voice, but it's Qidian, took them half a year to proceed to the next step, let's see when it'll come.

Also, it's not getting a little old. Before becoming vocal about something, you should do your own research. What is the business practices of the other giants in the translation sites? What are people used to? Now, you broaden your horizon, what is being done in a multitude of sites with subscription model, or you can just go to facebook and twitter, how much of your information is being sold? It's funny. The moment you enter the internet, your information is already a product being bought over.

The big translation sites has always used paypal as the medium to pay their translators and editors, to receive donations from fans. There are other methods, yes, but paypal is the most prevalent, not to mention patreon. I don't have any idea why do you even bother about your argument in this post. Paypal is proven, paypal is what people are used to, QI will add more functions, but it will take time, so they prioritize what is already being used in the industry.