CJofNJ yup well said. Thank you
1000 Chapters at 12 spirit Stones is 280$
Krazyguy75 Everyone that I've seen who says they hate the system brags about how they refuse to buy SS. So there isn't really a loss there anyways.
CJofNJ And thats how business works. There is a targeted audience, is Qidian going for full seats or are they trying to meet a quota to pay everyone and keep board members happy?
If they can sell 20 $200 books as compared to 100 $5 books I think I know which business model I'd take and which audience I'd focus on.
BigLeagueWeeb First off I'm not the one who threw Harry Potter out as a comparison. I just decided to prove a point. Secondly I'm not going to keep repeating myself by explaining what subjective means. YOU may find it drivel, not everyone does so it's not a baseline to use for a debate.
No the problem is you want them to conform to your needs. Which is fine and most businesses will/should do some form of it. But you don't walk into a Chinese Restaurant and then throw your hands up when there are no beef burgers because that's what you're use to. No you're there for Chinese food.
Everyone keeps pointing out that Qidian is/will Lose money. Yet every action and snippet they have taken or posted says things are on track... because the model and price hasn't changed. These people are very smart when it comes to business, they run a successful multi-million dollar company in China.
Things won't topple over and fail, if the price isn't working... It will drop. But it hasn't and more premium novels continue to come out. So, do you take the advice of a few unhappy people or follow the actions of the company?
N0xiety pretty much true. Just repeating the same shit all over again.
Gamblejay Just like how China cares about other countries or people hardworks. Plagiarism is a common thing in China and when others do the same thing, its a crime and not supporting those who are behind the project. Yeah sure.
h3national If you read anything i posted rather then cherry picking I already pointed that out and said reading free is fine and doesn't make someone less of a fan. But if you do want to support the project, this is the platform the Author has chosen.
Ebu8b some devices aren't compatible with the app, so they can't earn from watching ads.
Gamblejay if I walk into a Chinese restaurant and the White rice is selling at $10 a pint and I can get basmati rice at the Indian place next door for $5 a quart, you can be sure that I'm walking out. If I really need that entree, then fine, I'll shell out for only the entree and buy the side of rice next door and make sure to never go to that restaurant again
I go to buy spirit stones and now the $10 deal for 1500 spirit stones only gets you 600?! What a rip off. I'm done with Qidian's scummy practices.
Do you know when and why they changed the pricing? It was at a fair, dare I say generous, price before.
ZeroAspect The pricing far as I know had always been based on word count. We had the Ads before but it wasn't sustainable.
So some will write long chapters which means more stones per chapter. Some have shorter which means less.
Gamblejay You're the one that defended the price as compared to real books when there's really not much to defend. Congrats if you want to pay for fillers, everyone can speak with their money and you are no exception. However, the majority cannot afford or don't think it's worth it to be constantly shoveling money at QI to read stories of endless repetition + fillers. I'm pretty sure you're one of the rare few that don't mind paying for 5 chapters about the mc getting an epiphany and their cultivation struggle to breakthrough. And please show data that QI is operating on a loss.
As for your Chinese restaurant analogy, it's a good strawman. The issue is the price for the content, not the content. Is anyone coming to this website trying to learn food recipes and mad when there's only webnovels? To fix that, you started eating at a Chinese restaurant that had decent prices. You ordered your food and you get some of it, but while you're waiting on the rest, the prices suddenly changed and you've got to pay more to get the food that you're waiting on. Nothing about the food really changes, but the price skyrocketed. You just can't justify continuing to pay for that food when there's another Chinese restaurant down the street at a reasonable price.
Just because @Gamblejay, QI's new poster child, is willing to pay astronomical prices for lackluster stories doesn't mean the rest of us are.
the world will drown you(@QIDIAN) to death with all this spirit stones
