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N0xiety good explanation. That's exactly what I dislike about QI's system. Either you are a leecher or you are a whale who can spam the unlock button, but the ppl who occasionally wanna spent some money are totally being disregarded in this system

"whale" is kinda out of proportion, I'll ballpark immortal mortal at about 25ish bucks if what I've heard of it being about 1200ish chapters long ? that sounds about fair for a book, far as microtransaction goes that's on the dirty cheap side of things, whales are people that spend tens of thousands bucks/month and upward from there.

That aside, partial spending would still be feasible, N0xiety, because even if one wouldn't want to buy spirit stones anymore, there is still the check in bonus, so at minimum advancing one premium chapter a day is possible.

natto let's have sex (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

and now i regret unlock RTW premium chapter. premium chapter is just like blackhole to your spirit stone. once you join premium, you lose your right to get free chapter, every new chapter will become premium chapter, and if you want to stop, you need to wait till the free reader catch up to you.
its okay if its just 10 chapter, you can still wait for free reader, but based on the calculation there will be hundreds of premium chapter in a month and maybe thousand in a year. can you wait that long ? i think its better to stop now and just become free reader, its not worth it. its a black hole

sunstrike RTW premium isn't that bad actually. You should still be able to keep up with the premium chapters if you use all the free ss you get daily. Well, that is ofc considering that the prices will stay the same and they won't decrease the free ss ammount in the future.

natto I hope it never becomes premium or else another novel on my list will have to take the backseat. Immortal Mortal, Rise of the Legendary Guardian, and Release the Witch have already taken the fall. IM is the novel which got me started on Qidian and I’m really sad to let it go.

Re: Patreon vs Premium
Patreon is entirely voluntary and it depends on the donor on how much he/she wants to shell out. The premium system on the other hand is somewhat forcing the avid readers (fans) of the selected novels to pay for the updates.

I hope the ads system gets re-implemented soon on the premium novels. It’s just so much of a buzzkill from getting 3 chapter updates down to 1 per day.

natto why do I get the feeling that you are someone from Qidian and was sent here on the forums to promote the new premium system? Hmm...

Lyle_Walt So I was not the only one. I checked is profile and all he is been doing is asking for premium on monster paradise and saying premium is better

Lomacris I’m sure a lot of us here noticed this. I was just stating the obvious. Lol. :)

Lyle_Walt
Yup, definitely a qidian agent.
At this point, I'm only waiting for aggregator site to start making script and accounts to grab the chapters

Premium "forces" you to pay.

Patreon let's people leech, depending on others to give several dollars a month, when the translator would be much better off if
everyone just gave one small dollar a month

sunstrike It is not the best way to solve the problem, but I only read one premium novel, RTW, so I am just saving all my spirit stones for that and watching adds for all my other novels. I didn't bother saving up any of my stones and only have about 80 left.

ImperfectInfinity
17 chapter / week. premium chapter cost 8 spirit stones. it means you need around 17x8= 136 spirit stones/ week
while daily check in only gives you 8-12 spirit stones. if the average spirit stones you got per days is 10 spirit stones. in a week you only got 70 spirit stones. its still not enough spirit stones. with 70 spirit stones you only got 8.75 chapter/week, while free user still got 7 chapter a week.
its better to wait and dont waste your spirit stones on premium chapter

sunstrike daily check in give you at least 16-20 for me. I guess level matters too? Voting power stone and energy stone should give you at least 10 regardless of level though

Over Time, save if possible then binged all of it ^_

Be careful when saving though. Always check your spirit stone expiration. I just recently noticed this. Some of my spirit stones expire in 12 days. Dunno if it’s a new thing or has been happening since I started in Qidian.

Lyle_Walt Good advice. I have less than 100 though so I don't think it will really affect me too much, If it gets to the point where I'm over 100 I will just start spending them on all the chapters I read. There is no point in hoarding them when they only serve one purpose.