queenofkahel Let me help you. One dollar is fifty spirit stones. medium sized chapter is around 7-10 stones and the vast majority of chapters are large sized so thats 12-19 stones per chapter. So with one dollar you will be able to read 2 to 4 chapters. Let's take one of the premium webnovels as an example. MMORPG rebirth of the legendary beta male has 17 chapters per week, 11 of them are premium locked. This webnovel has a lot of words per chapter because the author is milking his viewers like a devil, so the chapters cost around 12-19 spirit stones. So we will average it at 15 stones per chapter. There are 4 weeks in a month, so 11 chapters x 4 weeks = 44 chapters, and thats under the assumption that they wont add more premium chapters, which they will. 44 x 15 = 660 stones. 660 / 50(1$) = 13.2. So you will be paying 13 dollars a month just to read one webnovel, assuming of course they wont increase the amount of premium chapters. Now do that calculation with every webnovel you read, and you will see how much money you would need to pay to read everything.
Any idea about what Qidian's going to do next?
noobslayer yep, but the question is how long can others wait for it
Positive_Lullaby Im glad we have a mathematician here :D
Mrkacho It's not biased. It's just that the QI Chinese is much strict in releasing chapters for free unlike QI International you can still read it for free although you gotta be really really patient.
HaileeSTAN yupp, patience is a must
HaileeSTAN Patience is a virtue
Positive_Lullaby Damn. And to take the dollar exchange here in my country into the account, 13 dollars x 52 pesos is roughly 600 pesos which I don't have because i'm still a student with a little allowance :3 Damnnn its getting sadder for me. Thanks for the math though.
queenofkahel Your only option is to wait and gain SS little by little.
HaileeSTAN Well at least she(?) have an option
HaileeSTAN Yeah guess I'd just have to maximize how I use the options.
queenofkahel You just have to wait... it release free chap on premium a day preserve your spiritstone when the novel is completed. but you'll be also behind the updates
NormalRanked Yep cant do anything about it.
Positive_Lullaby I would love to read some shorter one but sadly the chinese novel is famous for the filler to make chapter much longer and gaining money ( as they are paid with how much they write / word ) ...... so yeah lets see how Qi handle this
NormalRanked At least there's hope. I'm grateful that I don't read on QI chinese because of what they said about them not releasing free chapters and all.
HaileeSTAN Well at least she(?) can read for free :3
Tertium That's the scariest thing about the premium for me, the fillers. This premium program is just a test right?
queenofkahel Yeah me too... we can still have free chap a day :3 haha
HaileeSTAN hmm... you can say its a test to see how people will react and how much they gain during this time as you can see they make the popular novel to became premium.... They will ( I hope ) make an improvement in the system until they found a great way to make sure Qi international sustainable cause they are company, not the charity
NormalRanked As they say, be grateful for what you have. After all, we're just non-premium readers.
Tertium So that's why my favorite novel is included in the list. Oh well, what's important is that Qidian does not leave the market.