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Translators aren't making anything from it currently. It has varying effects depending on how much extra money the translator made from patreon. The more patreons they had, the worse the affect. That's why the immortal mortal translator (lost over 1/3 of his income) complained about it and WSSTH old translator quitting over (among other reasons). Atm, those translator that had a huge patreon following are pretty much making less money for the same amount of work. It wouldn't be surprised if some of the translator are demoralized due to it.
The only positive is that from the WSSTH translator quitting post is that QI (rather CKtalon) revealed that a royalty contract in works in 2-3 months. The downside (there always is) is they lose the guaranteed fixed pay in the process. It could be a boon for the popular novels, but ill-advised for non-popular ones because they can end up making less money for the same amount work.
Atm there isn't real financial incentive for tls to give extra effort into tling more chapters.
On topic, I mean QI has actual data on views/ss usage/power stone/etc on each novel so they have a much clearer idea on which novels should go premium. It's doesn't matter if you don't like a novel (WSSTH/Rebirth), QI has enough data to have a good inkling that they make more $$$ by having that novel go premium.
