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
Premium Vs Patreon
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
natto thats why this system suck for free readers and people who occasionally tip for the translator. with 50$ i prefer buy the real book for my collection than some advanced chapter.
yes. with 50$ you can get 625 chapter in advance, but once you run out of ss, you need to wait 15 months to be able to read the chapter for free again(with the calculation 10 free chapter/week). and if you cant wait that long, you need to buy another spirit stones, thats why its like a blackhole, its just like a drugs, its so addictive, once you try it, you cant stop.
sunstrike Not really like what you said, you can also get around 20 gifted SS by daily check in and votes. Aside from that, we will give you guys more options to get free SS by watching ads. The daily gifted SS could handle almost every Premium title's daily updates unless you are following up so many titles at one time.
The other hand, we still hope you guys can buy the SS and support us. It's good for WEBNOVEL development in long run. If no ones pay the money to our contents, then our authors who created those wonderful stories will get nothing. In that case, they will loss the motivation to allowing up translate those novels for global audiences.
You might think the pervious ads will give us enough revenues to feed our authors and translators. Frankly, the ads revenues could not even handle the 1/10 of the translation cost, not even talk about the revenues sharing with our authors.
All to all, we really hope all of you guys could support our translators, editors and authors. We will loss the chance for reading web novel if they would not be benefits from the whole business. If you can't afford the payment, you can still read those premium chapters for free but just wait for a while. To be honest, all premium contents will be free to read ultimately. We care both of premium readers and normal readers who can't afford reading cost; we tried our best to give you guys free contents and allow you guys to finish every single story. But we really hope you guys can give us your best supports, even you can't pay it.
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WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL Considering the current premium novels, you would have to spend between 30-42 SS the unlock at least 1 chapter for all 4 premium novels. Assuming qidian won't make other novels premium as well, you would have to make something for us readers to gain at least more 15 SS daily, as our current daily SS is something between 17 and 22. If it keeps going this way (only 4 premium novels), we would have to spend all our daily SS on the premium novels, meaning we would be unable to keep up with any other novel on the website, and if the number of premium novels increases we would be even more limited in the number of novels we can read daily. For much as you say this is for the the better interest of everyone, I can not agree to that, as readers that like the premium novels are not able to keep up with more than 4 novels