I beggining to question what the heck happen? To unlock chapter needs 6 to 12 spirit stones and remove the ads option? Is this the way to put us reader to buy spirit stones forcefully ? Example novel . Library of heavens path !!!! Super gene!!! Pls let it back the ads option to unlock chapter... everyday all i can earn free sprit stones is no more lesd 20 to 30 spirit stones.
Why remove ads to unlock chapter ..?
Because lohp and super gene are premium novels, dont read premium novel if you couldnt afford it or couldnt wait for couple of days until they become free
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I personally think they should have just put ads on every chapter on the website. Its 15 seconds worth of ads to read one chapter, no one would complain its the same thing YouTube does( youtube puts multiple ads per vid). They just need to monetize every chapter on the website with ads and have spirit stones for premium chaps. Ez pz solution to making more $ (and for non premium chaps you must watch ads for this to work. Stones r just for premium).
Ohh now I feel sad.
I think the ads provider of Qidian International is not big and so is unable to provide funds enough to pay the translators. They can move to other adv. provider but it may not provide the functions needed by the website.
They should just put adv. banner on both sides of the page.
lazyDaoist wait. is that for real? i dont see any premium chapter unlock after a few days?if yes. please show me which premium novel because i almost delete the premium novel from my fav.
A_Baby_Seal yea but youtube has billions of users while qi has tens of thousands. Thousands of ads equate to only a few cents I believe so it simply isn't profitable.
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lazyDaoist
they don't unlock every single premium novel, it's only the one on pff that get unlocked. (I may be wrong)
https://acts.webnovel.com/2018/6094045/index.html
well... I don't really know how much spirit stone it costs to buy a chapter but actually on Qidian China, you should pay for every chapter if you want to read it. And there is never any chances by which you can watch an ad to get free chapters. Every chapter costs about 0.03 USD I believe... And as for the King's Avatar, the whole story costs 37.18 USD in total...
So actually it's common that we should pay for a novel... And indeed the copyrights belongs to Qidian so it's reasonable that they sell those novels.
Welcome to WEBNOVEL
Just wait next year and see how many novel you can read for free
Face_Smacking_Dao your heavy sarcasm is unappreciated
when has customers' opinions been relevant in the grand scheme of things? unless your opinions can give them more profit... otherwise just save them to yourself.
also, it doesn't matter if by next year all the novels turn premium because through our connections to reading webnovels i've met some good friends here.
so i think the journey is worth it no matter how it ends.
Face_Smacking_Dao well by that time , i might learn some chinese language. and read whatever free for me to read. not many can earn the money Dollar to dollar. in my place, even $99cent its worth a good breakfast or lunch in some rural area.
Miya no harm done i think. read the novel to release the pressure. not adding the pressure. i dont blame the webnovel. its their nature to at least get the profit for them , author and translator.
sharing the feeling of poor bloke. but if it wrong. or you might think its unneeded, just take it easy. everyone have their own opinion, and stating their opinion doesnt do any harm to rich person who actually have money to buy stones every now and then.
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lazyDaoist
"wait couple of days until they become free"
Are you joking? As far as I can, since the change of policy (no ads) then ALL chapters became premium_only and LOHP, SuperGene, StrongestGene didnt release any chapters for free.
Almost 2 weeks and not even 1 chapter for public viewing (although LoHP changed policy later so its barely 1 week)
Mara_Sov yeah then wait for a week, dunno about lohp as i already dropped it but for im i left it for a week and it opened already
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Some people here probably dont realize it, but this MICROPAYMENT policy for every single mini chapter is ridiculously expensive. With the current prize of SS (50$ for 2500SS and thats around 200-250chapters) you get approximately HALF of the paperback book for 40$ !!! That means paying 80$ for one single copy of paperback book!!
On Amazon you buy paperback Harry Potter for 10$!! Really ridiculous!!
Digital content should be cheaper than paperback, but here it is reversed.
imtheonlyone oh yeah, i agree people should be free to write their opinions.
what i meant by this: :arrow_down:
Miya when has customers' opinions been relevant in the grand scheme of things? unless your opinions can give them more profit... otherwise just save them to yourself.
is that i don't know if these "opinions" matter in the end. we can be here to philosophize what we think is best for qi for days, but i don't know if qi will factor in our "opinions" at the end of the day. if what we want plays a role in their decisions...unless it's for the profit
i make it sounds like webnovel is some money hungry institution, that's not what i meant. i think it's normal to be in the business for the profit, so i don't blame anyone for strategizing to be richer, to be more successful.
Mara_Sov As far as I can, since the change of policy (no ads) then ALL chapters became premium_only and LOHP, SuperGene, StrongestGene didnt release any chapters for free.
https://www.novelupdates.com/series/library-of-heavens-path/
https://www.novelupdates.com/series/the-strongest-gene/
https://www.novelupdates.com/series/super-god-gene/
Looks like they release daily free chapter.
TargetPractice1 If Qidian has billions of users they will become more bold and also will use more premium things.
imtheonlyone even if we could read chinese language, the raw in Qidian are also must pay to read them. I know there are alot more free stuff outside of QI, but some stories that I really want to read are belonging to them (unfortunately?) And I cannot just drop them. 
Miya
Did i do sarcasm? I just welcoming you and giving my opinion if every month 3 - 5 novel become premium (especially novel with high power stone vote) not much good novel we could read
Money
I think you should use multiple account of this app
You can get 90+ ss for your original account and can get 100 ss for your new account (i think so) then you can use that new account for premium novel only
Mist_Official its only my suggestion
Ebu8b
I am not familiar with Super GOD Gene, so I cant say, though I was talking about Super Gene (different story) and thats doesnt have any free chapters for past week.
Why do you think that The Strongest Gene is releasing free chapters? Last free chapter has been ch262 for almost 10 days without any change.
Indeed LoHP trully released ch596 and ch597 for free in last 5 days. You were correct and I missed those 2 chapters, well, lets see what future brings.
Go to lnmtl for lohp :v:
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Mara_Sov Super Gene (different story)
Nah it's the same story. Just has a different name on novelupdates.
Mara_Sov Last free chapter has been ch262 for almost 10 days without any change.
Wut? Looks like one daily free chapter to me. I get the feeling that you misunderstood PFF or that I am not getting the point.
Could it be that you bought several premium chapter and then thought that if you don't buy anymore that you will still get daily free chapter?
Translators need funds too we should remember that they are sacrificing some of their time to translate for us. So why not show them our support even if it is little it means a lot. The 50 ss only cost like 0.99$?
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lCHAOSl
I have no problem to occasionaly send 1$ to translator... like pernament subscribe once a month.
Problems are those microtransactions for SS. For 1$ (50SS) you can get only 4-8 chapters on average every month. That's hardly enough!
If you do the math then to read 3 premium stories here you have to spend around 20$ EVERY single MONTH! Thats really ridiculous considering you can buy 2 PAPERBACK books for those 20$ in normal store.
Ebu8b
Ok, you got me there with that Super Gene. Though I dont get why you linked to external site (that had different name)
As for those free chapters, I guess you were right, after 5 days I checked it and I found 3 (new) free chapters so I guess they release free chapters, but its not exactly every 24hours.
Honestly it’s starting too piss me off I could see if the premium novels had a fixed price why tf are the spirit stones 5-6 just to read one chapter not four like it is usually it does not make since I gotta spend all that money just to read a novel for a day
Mara_Sov Do you srsly not know what novelupdates is?
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Mara_Sov Though I dont get why you linked to external site
I used novelupdates to let you see the free updates.
Mara_Sov but its not exactly every 24hours.
It is. They provide every 24 hour one free chapter but on a community basis not on an individual level. I thought the picture and the links would help you to realize it on your own.
So if you buy one premium chapter, you will not get a chapter for free next day. You will have to wait 48 hours until the chapter gets free for everyone.
So use your SS only for one premium novel or else you will find yourself in a position where you either pay or wait for a long time.
worlds smallest violin playing the saddest song
So many tears. QQ
That sucks... ;_;