NewCultivator wow... you reaaaaaaly don't get the point, do you?
Thank you for making me say goodbye, Qidian
Yippie finally the pay wall is up!!! For those too poor to buy spirit stone to read too bad for u guys but it same for me too.... sigh we all know that the pay wall will be up and running right? No matter how we complain n whine, if there are people who pay, qidian will still here to stay. It is all about money lady and gentleman
Stockpiling chapters could be an option. We will atleast get 1 ch a day. It is better than some websites which release 1ch/wk or at most 3 chapters/wk depending upon patreons.
In my case, I dont read premium chaps other than of CCG(even this is with free SS), cause I cant afford them. So, I have not run into any problems. This was after my experience with a certain novel, for which I read premium chaps, only to be unable to afford it later(and free chaps still have not caught up after two months, so I dropped it).
Ebu8b Nah i'm talking about taking away the buy option for spirit stones and have that as the free currency, aswell as keeping the spirit stone cost to unlock chapters the same, so it won't affect people who don't buy spirit stones, and then adding a new premium currency that can't be earned for free, but works out cheaper to buy chapters with real cash.
Daoist_Kenobi Don't mind me just lurking around and commenting pointlessly
People worrying about buying spirit stones but all it takes is to invite random people to get free 97 spirit stones.
I have like thousands of it now, and I don't even know where to spend this crap anymore.
Fighting.
CreamPuffDelights Doubt it, Afterall for all the supposed "negative publicity" we are causing, the fact remains that we are still on their forums and reading their novels, and if people care enough to be complaining here, that usually means they are paying qidians bills one way or another so why would they stop 
Also, they need money to support their company, how can you not see that? â•®(─▽─)â•
Kimyang bullsheet
theyll expire around 30 days...
eat your thousands then
Holy shit nice one !
I really laugh at the people who support this "premium" that they put out. It not that people don't want to pay and support. The translators should be supported. It's the fact that the new system is complete garbage for so many reasons. Lets call what we been doing with no change at all to chapter release, editing to make sure correct words are used, and add cost per 200 words when 70% of the chapter is filler and repeat on words, and the biggest problem that if you unlock a chapter and support the new setup you now have to wait days or even weeks until your "free" chapter catches back up lol. I have no problem with money and now I'm really only following one premium but I'm not crazy to put that much money into something that has such poor editing. When reading Super God Gene I wonder if I'm gonna read about the MC Hen Sen or the hidden MC "Harry" lol. I just started reading the mtl of that book and to be honest the translation here is only a little better.
Did you forget to take into account the 70% filler ?
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I've been sceptical of the changes myself, especially on the numbers end of things, but I think, in the long term, these token systems are superior to what we have with Western web novels and their existence in Korea/Japan/China is precisely why their scenes have thrived much more than ours.
Now that adblockers having basically eliminated ad revenue outside of the mobile market, western authors/translators must either work for free or, for a tiny few, live off donations from their readers. Doing it as a labour of love might be OK for a 100-200 chapter novel, but for a 1000+ chapter epic with regular releases 3-5 times a week? A translator might be able to do this by sacrificing their afternoons and weekends. For an author, though, that is pretty much the workload of a full-time white-collar job - unless they've somehow learned to provide their nutrition needs via photosynthesis, it's not really sustainable, not for years.
Edit: I think it's also worth noting that, by taking these monetization measures and thereby being able to hire fulltime translators, this website is pumping out more free chapters per week than its predecessors. If you simply pretend the locked chapters don't exist, you are reading more chapters per day than you were pre-Qidian. Right now, I'm following a dozen translations on other sites, and their releases are weekly or fortnightly.
I used to constantly check this site for updates but ever since everything I like went premium my library of 12 turned into a library of 3 and I only come in for daily check in and my few novels. I will never spend money on these webnovels because if I ever reach that point I will definitely start questioning my sanity and will definitely give up all webnovels like DixieNormous. These webnovels are both worse than real books and also more expensive. How could I agree to paying more for lower quality and still say I’m sane? The only reason I originally got into webnovels is because they’re free. In a way qi is actually helping me curb my addiction because unlike before when I checked for updates every hr now I only come by once in the morning and night and don’t read as much.
yall dramatic asf man
like are yall that obsessed with novels?
just wait a few days and marathon through them 0.o
smfh
DixieNormous Bravo. So true about the cost of the total book. It’s a joke.
Mangoo Bullshit. The authors get paid by the word. Most of these novels are stuffed full of fluff and crap that would never ever make it into a professionally published novel. Word length is a poor indicator of quality
Kimyang You say you have thousands but they will expire fast. So unless you use them all up right away you can’t stockpile and read because they will all disappear.
Xavier2430 this system match's the one on China page and Koran and Japan light novels. To problem is seeing how much money we all allow like the pay to win in video games