Tomz Why cant the majority survive, there are always free chapters daily. QI also provides free spirit stones 20-30 a day.
Library of Heaven’s Path (Premium)
Oxy unlike you.. people got commitments..
Tomz Its who this system is made for. My numbers are way high but it's because reading novels is my hobby. Paid books light novels I buy them and read. The spirit stones are for the user base that's willing to pay for their entertainment.
Free users still have free spirit stones and get chapters as well. Sure they're not fast as the paid users but they're not exactly left out to rot either.
It's just another form if entertainment. How many hours will you usually put into a 50 dollar video game? 60? How many hours will 7500 spirit stones get you in entertainment?
It's just another form of paying for your entertainment. Some might buy a fishing rod and some bait and fish. Or a bicycle or a ball for sports. Maybe go out to the movies, there s lots of things to use money on that keeps you busy. This is just another one of them.
shelwyn And now let's compare the release rate upgrade:
patreon: 0$, max release rate for everyone. There you pay for advanced chapters, but not more chapters per week
premium: ~12sschaptersPerWeek for max release rate
sarcasm onWow, I got max release rate for free before this system kicked in? It is so much cheaper now that I have to pay for this max release rate, which I got for free previouslysarcasm off*
Again, I am not saying that I want everything for free, but comparing patreon with this premium system and praising QI is like comparing apples and oranges...
PurpleMagicCube
Witch expire 1 month later
If you continue like that, later, every days you will win 30 free ss and lose 30 ss who expire
Yakumo And now let's compare the release rate upgrade:
patreon: 0$, max release rate for everyone. There you pay for advanced chapters, but not more chapters per week
premium: ~12ss*chaptersPerWeek for max release rate
*sarcasm on*Wow, I got max release rate for free before this system kicked in? It is so much cheaper now that I have to pay for this max release rate, which I got for free previously*sarcasm off*
Again, I am not saying that I want everything for free, but comparing patreon with this premium system and praising QI is like comparing apples and oranges...
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Cless Aren't you going to use the SS? It would be dumb to complain that you can't open premium chapters because they are locked when you have the Spirit stones. SS are not decorations, they have a use. "can't teach s_____d."
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shelwyn nope, if you'd have read my earlier posts, you'd think otherwise. My recent posts where only there to prove that you cannot compare patreon and premium system, so every post stating that this is better than patreon, is baseless, since they are 2 totally different services with different offers/benefits.
But hey, your post just fits with nearly every other pro premium post here, with their lack of facts and resorting to bashing of free readers or ppl with (based) opinions.
Heva
okay, now just go to amazon and search random paperback novel, it would cost around 10$ each.
and that is a whole book with proper english.
heck, even japanese novel with hardcover and great quality paper and ilustration are around 13$, on kindle even less. try search danmachi, overlord, death march, youjo senki, etc, paperback it's all around 13$ or less.
shelwyn
do you know that patreon cost more because it is not intended for everyone.
patreon allows the content creator to get money from content they made, basically you 'hire' them directly to keep making content as a support, and as a gratitude they give you some exclusive content according to your contribution.
while now they are on qidian, they already got paid by qidian, and qidian sells the product to us, and they only got miniscule of what you paid in SS as an extra bonus.
And now everyone that wants to read premium chapter are required to pay inflated prices.
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PurpleMagicCube
At first?
I only wanted to stock them because sometimes I don't have the time to read.
Someday I got more time so I do my own mass release:
10 lohp chapter unlocked for example so I can read quietly.
For now it's ok I have some ss but later my stock going to hit 0.
Witch mean gain 30 free ss and 30 ss who expire.
So everyday I can only 3~4 chapter "premium" and if I don't read it's wasted because I can't stock ss anymore.
Fun fact: qidian give free ss but take them back 1 month later so it's more a rent ss than free ss
Cless 30 free SS a day in 30 days is 900 SS that you can use to unlock chapters. Use it before it expires. What are you complaining about hitting zero balance on SS when you are getting it for free and you even have a chance to read locked chapters?
It is totally different from renting. When you rent an apartment or a car, you have to pay a fee.
PurpleMagicCube
Yeah my bad, more like a lending than rent... ( not my language maternal)
Got some ss but no chapter to unlock ( already think about that and already unlocked all novel I read).
Did I need to unlock other chapter I don't read so I can't waste them?
And 30 ss expire everyday.
So the fact didn't change: 1 day or another, I going to hit 0 ss and only read 3~4 premium chap every day or I waste them.
Unless I brought ss but it's too expensive for my thirst.
I'm ok to paid for the work done, something like Netflix:10 15$ per month.
But their system is too expensive for me.
Wolfeinstein I just got 10 ss
Cless lol you are talking with Qidians secondary account, what did you expect xD One thing I found with this Qidian is that China apparently has too different culture from the western world. Things that for us look totally shameless or even stupid for them they sound genius ideas. Or so I guess from what I can see.
The premium system is something that is needs to be revised. The system would be alright if they changed the prices. The prices and not nearly worth the stone amounts they represent. If you read Library of heavens path its 12 stones a chapter, triple normal. If they want this to work they need to make stones cheaper or something. That being said as someone who doesn't lack money I bought a ton of stones to support the authors and translators.
shelwyn I don't see a reason not to have both the spirit stones you can purchase/earn from daily logins etc, aswell as a subscription service, if i only read 1 premium novel, a sub service wouldn't be for me, but if i read many of them, it makes more sense for me to subscribe, also it's a lot less hassle.
Tbh i don't feel comfortable paying for a currency people earn daily for free.
