Review Detail of Shirnai in Super Gene
Review detail
I just started this story, and ran into the paywall at I think 338 (June 17 2018), so basically like others I will drop it. I refuse to use more than a thousand stones for a single story, with a continuation of spending stones to continue reading. This is a payment model, in my opinion, that is too easily abused, and designed for a much larger audience. For this particular story I think it is abusive, even at 5 stones per chapter, it will be close to 1000 stones to get current. Since, I know it will exceed 5 stones on average, that means more than a 1000 stones just to get current. Or to say this in an easier format, every person that starts the story today in order to get current needs to spend 20.00 US dollars or more. That is just to get current, if you want to continue to read you will continue to spend money on this one story. So, just imagine if you will, take only the votes a story gets in a week for the power ranking, divide it by 2, then divide 7. For last week thats roughly 1300 people. I cannot imagine someone voting for their favorite story and not spending any stones on it at all. I also dont imagine it is only 1300 people reading the story. This story has posted 18 chapters per week in its description. If you use 5 stones per chapter, at 18 chapters and just 1300 people that are will spend stones on the chapters released. you get 1872 US dollars. If all the people bought the 20 US dollar package. Pretty good for 1 story that is not even a top 5 story in the rankings. So, pay me 1 thousand stones to get current with my story, then I want 90 stones per week to stay current. So if you start today and want to be current with me at the end of 3 months, give us 40 US dollars. [This is what this comes across to me with this particular story, as it is setup] Yeah, I dont care how many actually physical books you can buy from a brick and mortar story. I just want you to pay me. After all this is the only 'official' way for you to read 'this' story. Great story...I really really like it. I really dont mind spending to support it, but I refuse to be raked over the proverbial coals, to enjoy it. Congrats on getting 0.00 dollars of my money because of the way you set this story up to progress to current. Originally, I was gong to add it to the list I was willing to spend stones on it, but now I will just leave and go read something else. Nice job for the most part on translation, not great but good.
Super Gene
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The problem with your math is that it costs about 8 ss per chapter on average. That is more than the 5 you posted. I wish more people would do math and understand this though. They should just give people the option to watch 2-3 Ad's per chapter. They would get their Ad revenue and the Reader would not have to become poor while trying to read 5+ LNs a month.
I used 5 because one of the lowest stone costs, I also believe it might have been the cost for chapter 338. Stone costs vary according to chapters, like it is usually 11-13 per chapter for True Martial World. I dont mind terribly paying to keep current, especially if its like less than 20 chapters to get and stay current. Problem with this one is, that its 200 chapters. That is really excessive in my opinion. This is also the reason I removed it from my library and have decided not to read it currently. Maybe in a few months I will see how many I can read. Personally I wish I could just buy the story, or pay a monthly cost for access. There are a variety of plans that they could implement that would be good for both parties, but I believe that Qidian wants to maximize, which is not good for the consumer. This is just an opinion and not something I can prove or disprove. I do not know their monthly operating costs, which has to cover all the stories. I do not know their contracts with the authors. I do not know their contracts with the translator. Lots of unknowns, and therefore I can only make a judgement on what I will and will not be willing to spend on any story. I think as the consumers the best way is to make a statement, true not to flame, and use our money to speak as loudly as possible. The problem with this type of stance, is that if you have plenty of people willing to throw money at the story(s) then you will never accomplish a change. Thanks for the like
SorcererCat:The problem with your math is that it costs about 8 ss per chapter on average. That is more than the 5 you posted. I wish more people would do math and understand this though. They should just give people the option to watch 2-3 Ad's per chapter. They would get their Ad revenue and the Reader would not have to become poor while trying to read 5+ LNs a month.