LtBeefy well, have to say their spirit stones are cheaper. Patreon was 5$ per advance chapter. Spirit stones it would only be about 10-18 for a chapter so much less.
Lol, that's a foolish comparison.
A. SS is the cost of one chapter. $5 Advanced chapter was always ahead of the latest chapter by one. In essence, it was getting at least 40-60 chapters a month for $5.
To read 50 chapters of premium it will run you at least $9.95, assuming an average cost of 12 SS/Ch(600SS in total).
B. Advanced chapters were always optional and never affected the release rate of 14/ch per week or so. With premium, releases are curtailed to 7 free ch/wk (at least until royalty contracts come out and the free chapters are ended.)
C. Not only that, once you quit paying for premium you have to wait at least 7 weeks to catch up to your paid point. (Once again, that's only true until the royalty contracts come out for translators and the free weekly chapters are cut-off).