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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.

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.

Lyle_Walt if I'm from diqian that would be good.because I would get paid.

The truth is I'm not.

I just said what I thought.

Lyle_Walt the truth I want that too

But TL Editor auther qidian staff ,you want them to work for nothing? You should get paid property enough for full time job.

Lomacris lol I just want more chapter that's it.

Do you really think qidian would hire someone like me that can't write English well enough?

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

ciopo >>>tazmo

Wow

That's a name I thought I won't be hearing anymore after all these years

I think that people don’t 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 It's precisely because you can't speak English very well that I think you are from qidian

Lomacris lol you can think what ever you want

But the truth still the truth

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.

WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL It's too expensive and we are not getting anything from it. You just took something that we had for free and put it behind a paywall. You should have added premium chapters on top of the weekly chapters, but instead you cut in half the amount of free chapters and essentially made it so everyone reads less.

WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL its a BETA program, so right now you only tested it on few novel to see the reaction. and if this program success. in the future all novel will use the premium chapter program and your daily gifted SS cant handle all of them anymore.
and you also forgot that not all of reader check in daily, some of them choose to binge reading. so if you missed 1 day, you just missed 2 chapter.

Positive_Lullaby Chapters aren't behind a paywall... :thinking: