Gilly I end up just spending my SS on 1 or 2 stories. Even though I have SS in the bank and more premium stories I would love to spend SS on, I dont. Simply because it would take too long for the free chapters to catch up, when I do eventually run out of SS.
I did that with LOHP, and Ive been waiting months for the free chapters to catch up. And even though I re-bought more SS, I still dont spend on LOHP simply because I dont want to repeat this process again.
Aside from the money issues with premium, there are many other issues in my opinion.
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 or other sites, 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.
It was Manga -> fanficion -> Japanese Light novels -> Zhan Long -> Coiling dragon
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.
SHINOBI: The RPG is very good. Chapters are long, and the storyline is great if you are a fan of the fallout series and Naruto. The original author however is on Hiatus as of Chapter 62 so it might take a while to for any new chapters to actually come out (after this story makes it to chapter 62).
Old Wu seems the most perfect to balance him out. Not to mention I don't think he's a playboy from what we've seen in the first 1000 chapters..and with his marriage promise to Old Wu.. the harem story-line is out.
Old Rao gets along with him more as an older sister archetype.
Miss Dong gets along with him as a childhood friend archetype.
And Miss Zhang gets along with him as more of a best friend you can relax with.
So most of my favorite novels are going premium, and being a power reader, my ss simply cannot keep up. So I will have to read most of the novels when the free chapters are released. Which is fine, I'm not trying to start another post to complain.
As it is right now, I have to keep checking each separate novel individually to see when the free chapters are updated. It would really be helpful if Qidan could add some kind of feature to the library that would indicate when the free chapters are released.
got it like 5 min after.
I did not get my power stone today. Anyone else?