Unpale That is my understanding of the current system, yes. Hopefully someone will step out and correct us if that understanding is incorrect.

      Unpale To my knowledge the price varies per word count, I was told that there are other variables but no one knows what those are. The word count seems to be the main component with the possibility of popularity/quality being an additional factor.

      None of this information has come from an official source.

          im curious if the explaining or notes than the translators sometimes put after a paragraph is counting for that word count

            Neverfire7 Its readable yes, but its just... so bad. Its literally Chinglish. "Why the answer is NO?" Jesus reading that made me both die inside and want to bitch-slap the author of that statement. Although I doubt it would do anything to him as if he is the "manager" of this whole program and couldn't afford shelling out a few hundred usd to get a native English speaker, his head is already a rock.
            Its nowhere close to the "pinnacle" its closer to an elementary schoolers English level, perhaps even lower (age 5 to 11ish). I wonder if I should email their higher ups to try and get them fired but I don't care enough about this website.

                Release more premium chapters. This daddy here has a stockpile of sprit stones higher than Mt. Tai. How would I buy Spirit stones if my reserves did not even get dent from your so called mass release. These lame ass mass release will not get you revenue. Load a hundred premium chapters. Force us to use all the free ones. As a patreon supporter I am willing to spend some bucks for ss. Mass release my ass.

                  Barewolf Then why doesnt QI simply record traffic to novels? Or make novel-specific subscriptions? You're treating this as a black and white problem when it isn't. QI had many choices but they just had to choose the worst one. I'm betting a premium subscription service coupled with a slightly higher release rate + chapters that currently are paywalled (not bothering to call it premium cause the only thing that's premium about them is the reeking of shit quality and bad grammar) would have given QI a lot more support and not so much backlash.

                  Or if Qi had started with 7 chapters a week and kept that rate the same since its emergence in preparation of premium (obviously @WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL lacks brain cells and financial analysts), there would be no backlash at all and just positive feedback from those wanting more chapters. This 7 chapters fixed rate would have also lessened QIs financial losses: Why the hell did they pay translators to do more anyways? They're basically operating on 2x or even 3x costs for little benefit. The more chapters a week a novel had previously to premium, was now the more chapters a week readers felt obligated to have for free. So basically QI just paid great amounts of money to shoot itself in the foot. (You're so great @WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL, I wish I could be like you, deserving to work at McDonalds but instead getting a job you're extremely underqualified for)

                  "oh so great losses oh no we didn't plan this out correctly! OH I know! How about we make some event we know the community will hate to roll out a paywall!!! And lets disguise it as a good thing!" - a shocked @WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL exclaimed upon going to office after 10 days of lazing around at home stuffing his obese body with McDonalds and KFC .

                  One of the saddest things is that QI acts like premium is a good thing for the readers. If they had admitted that they were operating under a huge loss and it was deeply apologetic/ other human resources jargon, they would have also gotten less backlash. But the Thank God It's (Friday/Wednesday now too cause we can't wait to take your money) is an utter disgrace.

                      OldmasterCang Haha definitely not personal, it just really irritates me and I havn't gotten any response which irrittates me more xD. Honestly I couldn't care more about his English proficiency if it was on a small website or non-corporation owned. However, as a branch of a multi-million dollar corporation (or maybe billion? Not gonna research this), to not even be able to communicate effectively with its users is like slapping us in the face. Shows exactly how much they care about us users.

                          Oxy QI is currently losing money.

                          so what? most new companies take 5-8 years to start making money, dont expect loads of cash just because you started a business

                              Frosch First, LOHP is actually a published novel in China. Second, Qidian is China’s Kindle Unlimited (more or less). Third, all premium novels have to go through a more stringent QC.

                                  Jimmybo THANK YOU! Finally someone on my side.

                                      Jimmybo You are also forgetting the free 30 SS a day, basically 2 chapters a day for free

                                          Lomacris This is nothing like the system in China. If they really follow that, you won’t even be here, you would be long gone.

                                              Frosch Maybe it has something to do with the fact that most readers come from South East Asia?

                                                  immortal_corrupt I like how you called him rude, when he was nowhere near rude. Yet, here you are, bringing someone’s parents down.

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