The idea of premium chapters is so that qidian could make profit. The original promise is that even though there are premium chpters, there is still free chpters, ONCE A DAY! That’s the original promise. But I have been noticing that the premium chapters keep on increasing. 10-20 chapters for premium is good, then they increase to 30-50 chapters. Which still makes sense, considering they have to profits to make. 100-200 premium chapters is just plain greedy. There’s no justification!

We cant keep quiet anymore. We must do something!

    I think a 1-2 month lead would be pretty good. So if a novel releases 2 chapters a day premium would be at 220 and free would be at 100. Two months later premium would be at 340 and free would be at 220. This would be similar to higher levels of patreon advance chapters.

      There ahould be a limit to max number of premiums. And if 2 chapters. 1 free 1 premium, why i didnt see any increase in free chpters?

        yanuar Maybe you unlocked some of the premium chapters in the meantime? There is a free chapter every day so it can't be that there was no increase in free chapters. The only other possibility should be a technical issue. Is there a specific novel you had that problem with?

            yanuar The free chapter is still ONCE A DAY. The premium has more chapters because some release more than one a day and there were mass releases. I think that's why it's called premium. 😁

            In case you didn't know, free chapters are global so if you already unlocked some premium chapters, you have to wait for the free chapters daily to catch up to the chapter you paid. Maybe it's possible to request of a mass release of free chapters.:)

                yanuar Agree buddy I'm always in a hanging mood. Am always out of stones also... how can we finish reading one story to takes 3 to more months. Frustrating sometimes. I only finish my mr ceo 100% spoiled wife for my friends help thanks to them but could not get more free stones on the next book😌

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                    Rhythm_of_Regret DazzlingGem yansusustories roseme Mondx

                    Am i stupid or is there a conspiracy going on? 1 free chapter a day, that means if a novel has 3 chapters a day, 1 of them should be free. No matter how far ahead i have progress in reading. And this is easy to implement as well. Isnt this the concept?

                    When does reading premiums too far ahead suddenly become, oh you read too far, no free chapter for you until you catch up on the free?

                    This is a very easy concept to understand, i dont understand why nobody gets it?

                                yanuar Because this is what the Patreon advanced chapter system does too. Premium is a modified Patreon syste. Blame it on the translators who first came up with it.

                                    Let me explain how fucked we free reads are.

                                    there is 7 chapters peer week. Lets say the week start at sunday and end at saturday.

                                    On Sunday we will have one premium chapter and zero free chapters.
                                    On Monday we wil have one premium chapter and one free chapters.
                                    On Tuesday we will have one premium chapter and two free chapters.
                                    On Wendnesday we will have one premium chapter and three free chapters.
                                    On Thursday we will have one premium chapter and four free chapters.
                                    On Friday we will have one premium chapter and five free chapters.
                                    On Saturday we will have one premium chapter and six free chapters.

                                    It is simple and look nice to us, isn't? But it just look like that, the true it is fucked.
                                    The same exemple as before, but it 14 chapters a week.

                                    On Sunday we will have two premium chapters and zero free chapter.
                                    On Monday we will have three premium chapters and one free chapter.
                                    On Tuesday we will have fou premium chapters and two free chapters.
                                    On Wednesday we will have five premium chapters and three free chapters.
                                    On Thursday we will have six premium chapters and four free chapters.
                                    On Friday we will have seven premium chapters and five free chapters.
                                    On Saturday we will have eight premium chapters and six free chapters.

                                    As you can see, the number of premium chapter start rising. Keep doing and in a month or two you have 100 or more premium chapters ahead of the free chapters. Hell, this get even worst when the translator do a mass release.

                                    And the top of the cake;

                                    Let start at the end of the last example; On Saturday, eigth premium chapters and six free chapters.
                                    Let say that I have a number of Spirit Stone to buy exactly eigth premium chapters.
                                    The thing will turn this way for me who spend SS to unlock premium chapters;

                                    On Sunday, 2 chapters premium, 0 chapter free.
                                    On Monday, 4 chapters premium, 0 chapter free.
                                    On Tuesday, 6 chapters premium, 0 chapter free.
                                    On Wednesday, 8 chapters premium, 0 chapter free.
                                    On Thursday, 10 chapters premium, 0 chapter free.
                                    On Friday, 12 chapters premium, 0 chapters free.
                                    On Saturday, 14 chapters premium, 0 chapters free.

                                    Looks greats, isn't?

                                    DaoistFedUp And neither does it charge as much as Patreon. There are of course similarities and differences.

                                        CKtalon And neither does it charge as much as Patreon. There are of course similarities and differences.

                                        DaoistFedUp It's not worth arguing here. CKTalon just says whatever Qidian wants him too. He is a very loyal party soldier.

                                        Even to the point of encouraging unknown writers to sign away their copyright ownership to Webnovel. He is also trying to entice naive/innocent writers to sign away their copyright ownership with some vague promises of possible adaptations of their novels— which of course they won't own :(

                                        As far as the patreon/premium discussion was concerned. They are two wholly different systems.

                                        Patreon - Allows affluent & excited readers to support authors & translators to read advanced chapters. Advanced chapters. If a person subscribes to patreon they stay X chapters ahead for the month(s) they pay for it. It was supported by the generosity of a few thousand people.

                                        A partial benefit was the patron helping the masses by providing a method that rewarded the author/translator without forcing the cost onto the masses.

                                        Premium - Shifts the costs to the masses by charging to unlock every premium chapter to everyone. Is it cheaper? Absolutely, for the wealthy patron who is no longer funding a patreon to support the TL/Author. For the rest of the masses, it is prohibitively expensive since it pushes the costs on to them.

                                        For authors/translators, it also means fewer readers since the cost forces people to be more selective in what they are reading.

                                        One example: Alchemy Emperor of the Divine Dao will cost premium readers 39,762 SS = $611.60 (3250SS per $49.99) to read up to Ch 4621—in 7.73 years (the novel is still ongoing in China) with premium.

                                        Another: Immortal Mortal 385 Premium chapters (when completed in 4 days) Chapters Premium 4668 SS = a minimum of $71.80. Of course, that's only if unlocked when it was completed. If the reader unlocked every chapter add another 1344 SS ($20.67) so roughly $92 over the 4 months it has been premium.

                                        The reader could also wait 13 months to read the Immortal Mortal next year.
                                        Alchemy Emperor will take a little longer. It will take 12.7 years for the novel to become 'free' to read up to Ch 4621.

                                        It's also worth pointing out that 'Premium' doesn't mean quality to Webnovel. Many of the 'premium' chapters are riddled with spelling and grammar errors.

                                            CKtalon Patreon was usually set to X amount of chapters ahead, so the release pace is the same for all but the current chapters people read is different.

                                            some novels premium pace is double the 1 a day free pace, so by the end of the novel the free chapters are like 600 behind.

                                              I would rather have a monthly sub at the cost of lets say Netflix/Hulu and get access to all "premium" chapters. The current method is trash :zero: .

                                                RadPol So you'd enjoy Patreon more than Webnovel's premium.;,;. I think all here agree with you.;,;.

                                                    Actually, I do like the current system with the premium chapters. If there was a monthly fee instead, I'd probably stop reading here

                                                      CKtalon Yeah, blame it on the translators. They are responsible for the unreasonable premium system QI implemented...
                                                      Patreon and Premium are two totally different models!

                                                          yansusustories explain why
                                                          Im sure you can't

                                                          No one would ever be this stupid to chose to pay for especific chapters with no fixed value rather than pay a monthly fee and read all shit you can.

                                                              Cytric Of course, I can. It's quite easy, actually, and has nothing to do with stupidity: My monthly income varies greatly so something with a fixed monthly rate is something I'd always try to avoid. With the premium chapter system we have now I can decide if, when and how much I want to spend for reading. For me in my current situation that is the best possible scenario I could get so I definitely wouldn't want to change it.
                                                              And before anyone says "Yeah, but you do have to pay to keep up": I don't have to keep up with the newest releases. I'm perfectly content with keeping up to date with one or two novels through the free spirit stones I get and waiting it out on other novels or reading a bit ahead of the free chapters if the mood strikes me

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