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Here is the reason I believe Patreon, though flawed, is still the better option. If I want to give $5 a month to support my favorite translator on Webnovel I cannot do that because everything is tied to the word count the translator pumps out. I feel this to be a problem for the actual quality too. From what I understand this pay model is similar to the model they use in China. This does not encourage quality, edited content. It just pushes the authors, translators, and editors to pump out as much as possible as quickly as possible without a lot of quality control. I used to wonder why some webnovels were so tedious to read, going on for thousands of chapters with constant repetition and very little development from chapter to chapter, but now I can clearly see why this happens. The more fluff you add to your novel the more it can be monetized under the pay per word model.

Mrkacho Patreon is like a premium,
That you have to pay for it to gain access advance chapter.
It's around 5$ for 1 advance chapter
15$ for 3 advance chapter(per month)

For more information
https://www.patreon.com/FiveStarSpecialists

The difference is Patreon separate from normal chapter, but premium is not.

This is what I understand between the two.

Ps.I don't like Renegade Immortal translater

ImperfectInfinity I think 5$ for 1 chapter is too expensive for me.

That why I didn't like it.

Miya Maybe you right.

natto Maybe it depends on the number of words per chapter

I think what people concern about is the number of the premium chapter is continuing increase

take example of RTW.. in the beginning there are only 10 premium chapter then the next day increase to 11 and today it has 12 premium chapter

so that's mean people who didn't unlock the premium chapter will left behind than people who unlocked the chapter

it's actually can be solved if they consistent make the premium chapter only 10 chapter

Mrkacho it don't different much from each other between Patreon.

But if you compare Premium and Patreon the money that you have to pay is different like hell and heaven.

natto When did I say $5 per chapter? I said $5 a month as a flat rate, and that was just an example. Some people give as little as $1 a month on Patreon. With Patreon you are allowed to decide how valuable you feel the price is and then give accordingly. There is no freedom with the current system. Also, my point about the quality still stands.

Tertium this is like black and White,
Some people like it(less people but have much money)

Some people hate it(much more people but have less money)

natto It's actually a huge difference. With Patreon, the number of advance chapters a supporter has access to is usually at most 20, while with the new system here, the number of premium chapters is bound to end up in the triple digits.

Because patreon doesn't halve production speed for advanced chapters, and this is the whole issue, no one would hate premium if not for the fact that it's just halving the chapters/week for free readers..

Klepar you right about this point.

natto There are other ways Webnovel can monetize, like a monthly flat rate for all premium content for example. That probably would be just as controversial, but I believe it would at least be less predatory.

DaoistFedUp yes, like you said.

Rip my Immortal mortal
It is use to be 3 chapter free per day.
But now it is only 1

Well fortunately Immortal mortal is not my main novel.

PS.I want monster paradise on premium, I want moreeeeee

ImperfectInfinity every thing is about
money.

natto Sad, but true.

natto why you want monster paradise on premium. From what I get you will receive the same amount of chapters per week, you would just have to pay for half of them while now you read them all for free. Why do you want to pay if you have them free now. The current pace is 14/w, if it goes premium it will stay on 14/w, but you would only have 7/w free...

Lomacris from what I get right now, I will get 10 chapter mass release if it on premium.

I have 1000+ SS, I want to use it before it expires.

If you want more chapters from the translators you like then you need to donate to their patreon, since most translations have goals to increase chapters per week. The premium system is not going to do that as people think it will, most of the money goes directly to Qidian, and they won't use that money to improve the quality of the translations on this platform. As you can already see, the premium webnovels that were chosen are atrocious. Especially the MMO one. So if you want to read ahead and have your money directly support the translator and at the long run increase the amount of chapters you get, then patreon is the obvious choice. But do NOT buy spirit stones and DO NOT! support these low quality garbage translations that they put on the premium system! If they see people are willing to pay money to read that rubbish, then they won't even try to improve the quality of translators and will get keep getting more of the same crap we are already used to from the free days.