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Ansh Exactly, people are saying they follow 40 novels and can't afford to keep up with them all.

All I can think is : reading 40 chapters would take me 3 hours. This means they get 3 hours of reading for free every day. But they're all too addicted and cheapass to buy some spirit stones to support. Absolutely ridiculous.

Literally work for a day : earn 100$ , have 5 months of premium novels. Worth it? Yes. If you go drinking / bowling / eating in a restaurant .... You'll always spends >20$ for a night. 20$ gives you more than 20 hours of reading novels. Stop saying its too expensive, you just have to see it as a hobby. And hobbies are expensive.

1. Someone got burned (he knows) :D
2. When it came out I though locked chapters would be chill like 1-2 a week, didn't think it was 1 out of 2 would be locked and if you unlock 10 you have to wait 10 days so free chapters catch up to you. So yea they are pushing a bit hard I think. It doesn't matter if it's cheaper than going out or expensive. The thing is nobody else does it. It's inconvenient. All I can say is I see piracy around the corner and it's coming fast :D :D

YueZise On Qidian's side, they need to becheck profitable to support the writers and its Operations. What payment or spirit stone scheme will be affordable to you other than watching ads to get free chapters? I am just curious.

piracy is aready working.....hard to find but its already there; the strongest system for example is complete on the net (FREE & COMPLETE) and theres also some rough translations of strongest gene.....i almost cry when i found strongest system without adds and shit....like...before, like..... in other webnovel sites that existed before and will go on longer than quidian (if they go on with this); its a pity, this site was great, but the cost of read any premium novel here its not worth,( its cheaper buy a whole book; not the same as here..ok, but there are lots of publised novels of those genres) .I only hope the staff to find that famous medicine for regret before its too late

I have to agree with one thing though, that waiting for 10 days after unlocking 10 chapters for a free chapter really sucks. I really do wish that there was something like where your daily free chapter unlocks the oldest unlocked chapter so that i dont have to wait for 10 days.

Coshak Do they unlock chapters? I was under the impression they did, but then I binged Strongest Gene and realized that they have 70 locked chapters.
My conclusion was that chapters are only unlocked at the whim of TGIF. I came to the forums hoping someone will prove me wrong--are there just 70 set premium chapters that unlock 1 or two per day for Super Gene and an arbitrary number for the rest of the premium novels? Or are we that one step closer to a paywall?

just a few numbers:

• 50 power stones 0.99Eur wich means 5/6 pages
• 420,000 words for George R.R. Martin's latest book, 5000 pages= 5.99Eur (e-book price online in spain)

so 40 pages of a premium webnovel from some more or less known writers ( good writers, no doubt about that;...but not as known as George R.R. Martin ) cost the same as 5000 pages of an e-book by a best-seller writer

even without piracy and counting that everybody can or want to "donate" by your "pricing" to read a novel with the lengt of 5000 pages could cost 1000 euros......what a goob book it should be...

As people mentioned above, just do not unlock chapters and get caught in the loop of having to spend spirit stones all the time. The chapters come out for free but just at a slower rate. I understand it can be hard to control yourself if you are in the middle of an exciting arc, but if you just be patient and stop when you reach the locked chapter you will not find yourself running out of spirit stones or having to wait weeks before you get the next " free" chapter since you already bought so many locked chapters.

And for those who can afford the spirit stones, spend them by all means, what are you even doing here? >.>

Zebul It's already here. Qidian knows about it and don't even care. Seriously you can find it with a basic google search.

Miya But relaxing and being happy is necessary for one's well-being.
During the war, things like cartoons were made for that reason.
Living isn't the same as surviving.
What's the point of life if nothing is fun and you're not happy ?

YueZise level 4 gives you 99 spirit stones per invite. Plus, you can use the new account for the premium chapters as well. Meaning, twice as much spirit stones per day AND you get a starting bonus of 100 spirit stones.

Tl;dr, you get 200 stones for free and twice the stones per day

TehWeirdo This is dumb. And a waste of time.
I use Qidian to read on the way to Uni and during my free time.
I can't waste so much time just to exploit a bad system.
I would waste less time finding some underground trader...

So... I was saving my spirit stones until it reach 1k and only use it when there's a cliffhanger.
And then,i just found out that there's this "expired" thing on spirit stones too.
I feel like they're forcing us to use the spirit stone.
The other day i lost 99 spirit stones cause of expired.
sigh

*dont mind me... just venting out my frustration and pardon my poor english :)

Morinu I almost agree with you I can pay to unlock chapters and I would but the system is shit I mean I would totally pay for SS to unlock chapters if I can keep getting my free chapter a day too, but if I pay for 100 chapters, next what? I have to keep paying for all the novel and there are chinese novels with 2 or 3 thousand chapters or not getting anymore a chapter a day for three months till qidian catch up with me, I'm totally in for this system but that flaw is just too much you should get a free chapter after a day summing up the chapters you unlock otherwise except if you are goong to pay for all chapters till the end of the book you would end up having to wait anyway all the days that you paid no to wait, just later

Heyun I'll agree with that part. It's the biggest flaw (or even bug I'd say) the current system has. Free chapters should be unlocked individually, so if you miss a day you atleast get 1 free chapter. Only makes it fair.

Morinu not everyone can earn a hundred in a day. Rather in many countries it's close to impossible. Still, I completely agree with the other parts.

YueZise prisoners who are locked in confinement aren't happy, but they continue to survive.
being "happy is necessary for one's well-being, but not necessary for one's survival. i'm talking about survival, or the biological ability to continue to exist. I am not talking about the mental psychological state.

YueZise Living isn't the same as surviving.

I was not talking about the semantic of living versus survival. I don't want to go into such topic because it's neither here nor there, and wasn't part of my initial argument.

YueZise What's the point of life if nothing is fun and you're not happy ?

again, my initial statement had nothing to do with this. you're just extrapolating on what i did not say, and changing the topic as a result.

Aibele I have 15 novels in library 5 is premium and 1 is going premium on april 11th(nooo)
HD usually 3 chaps daily i think-9 to 12
TM usually 2 chapters daily-14
AGM 2 chapters daily-22 28
BNW 2 chapters daily-6 to 8
IRAS lets just say 1 chapters daily-8 to 11
so the cheapest i costs # 62
while daily i am getting 10 from voting
6 to 16 by checking in (might be wrong)
6 to 16 by watching add (meaning you have a smart phone)
lowest is # 22 while the most is # 42 so daily i am losing about 20 ss