Premium Vs Patreon
Thank god I'm always waiting a few months to binge read a whole story arc. This change would make me so salty otherwise.
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
Over Time, save if possible then binged all of it _
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sunstrike You get 5 spirit stones for voting for the power rankings and 5 for voting for the next novel to be released, bringing total possible daily free stones to about 20 a day. Just enough.
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 itβs 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.
No Money No Honey
N0xiety I know what you mean.
my point is that if I pay 50$ I will only get 10 chapters in advance on Patreon.
But if I pay 50$ on premium I will get 625 chapter in advance.
10 chapters VS 625 chapters
That is why I prefer premium than Patreon.
PS.I want free chapter too but my reason told I have to pay for them too.
natto that is a funny comment because some translations here are barely better than MTL, the difference between the quality is like heavens and earth when comparing some work, like how RTW early chapters when it was on Volare and the earliest chapter when it first got on qidian (I forgot the numbers, was it around chapter 280 or so?) . Now it's okeish
That said I kind of agree with you on the prices of patreon... that one time I checked it out for IRAS back when it was on Volare I almost spat out blood at seeing 50 bucks for 10 chapters, that's a Tazmo level of greedy for a supposedly passion project
Hence I'm relatively happy with the current model, "relatively" because it could be so much worse and I knew from the start that hoping it would stay free would only be a pipe dream
I think that people donβt complain about Patreon is because it is a tried and tested system that has been running for many years?
All the TLs I see have a Patreon running xD