'm pretty new to this site and only started reading novels in January. Here's some of my thoughts on this premium setup and a solution that could help. Let me know what you think.
1.Once you start unlocking chapters there is no going back to being free for that book.
If you started going ahead in a book with premium then you can forget waiting on it to catch back up. This is considered support by you spending stones but even if you go ahead 8 chapters now you would have to wait almost a month before you can even catch back up to free releases on some that do a few free chapters a week. It pretty much force's the reader to pay just to have a steady release again. You should not be penalized for spending ss on a locked chapter
Solution
I think locked chapters you unlocked should not count for the released. For example if the book is on 125 and I unlocked up to 130 I think the next free chapter should unlock 131 for me. This way you still get your guaranteed free chapters a week but the premiums are still there for you to unlock as well. I think this is a good middle ground. You can still spend SS and not feel like you're locked into a wait for chapter release.
- The ss to unlock the chapter is way to expensive and random.
I believe they say it goes off 200 words a stone but it's still crazy how some chapters cost 17 ss to unlock while some can cost 7. This leaves to much of a gap to how much a chapter will cost.
Solution
I think the 200 words a ss is a good start off but there should be a limit to how much a chapter can cost. While I understand it to a point but most chapters use so much "fluff" when describing stuff you can shorten a chapter by 30% and nothing would be taken away from that chapter. If there was some limit to where the max ss a chapter could cost that would be a good thing.
3.There is not enough benefit for this change to be called premium.
In the couple that I follow there is no change in the quality of the chapter. If I'm now paying for this and I'm a customer flatout the service needs to match the price. I see whenever someone brings this up people are calling them entitled or other type of things but that's not it. If you pay for something then it should match up in quality. It shouldn't be a sentence I have to reread because I have to makeout what it means or a lot of mispelled words. You can't just double the price of something and there's nothing different about the service at all and expect to have no backlash.
Solution
The only thing I can think of is be a little stricter on editing for your premium novels.
- No communication
They introduced this and there's barely anything telling you on how a book is premium or when they will switch one. Sometimes it in a note at the end of the chapter but that's not good enough. The latest on MP just changed with no communication at all. There is not even a way to see what books are on your current premium lol.
Solution
Just like how you have a new arivials section create a section that shows you a list of all the premium books and at least a explanation on how the system works. This seems like the most logical thing to do and should have been this first thing done when this came out
