Qidian sent DMCA notice to Patreon for all WW translators
Luta
I agree with quality over quantity to a certain point. (1 perfect chapter per year or 12 readable chapters by my standard per month.)
I am really neutral with the mass release thing, it hasn't affected me in a positive or negative way, but they should pay more attention to the "dead" novels. I am assuming it is chapters we are talking about and not new novels, cause my stance on that is completely different. I would support getting new translators for dead novels compared to mass releasing new novels. (Idk if they have done that)
Luta Novelsaga with their fan translations are going to be the end of me one day (OEM :sob:)
Neverfire7
ikr, it's pissing me off that a novel like martial gamer can get a mass release every freaking Friday but a chapter of OEM in 2 days is just a wish at this point.
KingBiBiK Talking to a person, paid by a company, about matters involving the company that pays him?
That is definitely a no-no. He just wants to tell people that Qidian pays people very well as seen in his PS
CKtalon QI is still releasing 7/week for free!
Just to point out that This statement is really false. For any particular novel, there used to be a 2 digit worth or free chapters (unless that novel has been doing it under 10 for whatever reason).
Then, they decided to Premium it with the same number of chapters release and then from a double digits of free chapters, they are still releasing 7/week for free!
Being biased is one thing, but to state it in such a manner is just....... weird......
immortal_corrupt Honestly, I said somewhere earlier in one of the posts. They messed up the psychology aspect. They released too much in the beginning and started withholding the free to 7chap/week. It used to be 7-10 chap a week before webnovel.com even came to play. They came in like drug dealers and gave double the amount for free in the beginning only to premium wall it later from addicted people.
I agree we would be happy if the premium chapters are added in addition to the usual free chap.
KingBiBiK Indeed :) but from a money standpoint, they think they will lose out allot of cash therefore they had to take in more cash to pay the over supportive translators lol
Mowuji_immortal Im on the mystical journey patreon for like 25-50 a month lmao...
Here's the difference between premium (qi) vs Patreon for me.
On Qi, there are no notifications for the free chapters. Premium chapters will get released, and then some time later the free ones do. It makes it hard from a readers standpoint, because I usually end up checking the novel seeing a new chapter, only to find out it was the premium chapter and not the free chapter that was released. Then Il periodically check to see when the free chapter comes out (gets annoying).
Another big thing is the comments for each chapter. With this system, you have a divide where the chapter is being commented on and discussed on the first day by premium readers, then the free readers come by about a couple of weeks later, and the discussion has died. It just doesn't feel good as a free reader to be 'catching up', or late to a discussion.
On WW, the patreon system was SEPARATE from the regular chapter releases. You still got updates for the daily releases, and still got advance chapters for patreon (if you wanted).. The comment section was not affected either since readers were essentially reading those free chapters at the same time. You had the CHOICE to read ahead, and regular free readers would not get affected.
On Qi, you see how many chapters you are behind as a free reader. You can see all the comments and even sometimes spoilers in the comment sections. It makes you feel like you are missing out. You have nobody to excited with, or happily discuss those chapters, since lots of people have already commented and discussed that. Its simple psychology; Humans are social animals, and half the people on this site read and comment to feel a part of a community. When that social aspect is taken away for half the community (free readers) it does not feel good. It makes you want to spend money on ss, to 'catch up' so you are relevant, and part of the community again. Here, it almost FORCES you to be a premium reader, unless you want to be missing out on everything.
I get why this is happening, and I understand this is business. I am not trying to argue against Qi, or even the premium system. I just think the implementation and execution of this system was poorly done.