I never read more than one story at a time, itās just my preference, and ever since this has started, Iāve actually thought that I should re-read a story I have already completed in the time Iām waiting for yhose 11 hours to count down, but now Iāve gotten it in 3 different storiesā¦all 11 hours, all 16 gemsā¦ annnnd now Iām in between 3 stories!
Iād love to support the authors, but thatās just too much for meā¦ especially in stories with 40 - 50 chaptersā¦
Exchange rate is making it much more expensive to buy gems this side of the world.
i think itās awful, personally, but then again, authors spend hours on coding and ideas, therefore they deserve our supportā¦ waiting a week to get a new chapter of a completed story isnāt ideal though.
weāve been complaining about gems for years now, thereās no way to get them without paying or reading cringe episode stories, but i think this is something weāre just gonna have to deal with.
i miss old episode. episode are just money grabbers at this point.
Someone is speaking facts I bought that vip and am like what the point of buying it and then some of the stories I read I have to either wait 11 hour or 5 it ridiculous why just kept the early access feature and removed the one that make you wait for so many hour and I email episode and I was being respectful to them and telling them how I feel but once again they never reply to anyone I just canāt imagine what they might do in the feature it just be way worse
well mines doesnt let me end the chapter i have to keep pressing i will wait till later but the chapter doesnt end so i end up spending all the gems. im gem less help!!
I think itās fine for early access. Youāre paying for content that hasnāt been released yet. But the waiting period is such a pain and I hate it. I like binge-reading stories and itās impossible to do with these waiting periods. Like, by the time the wait is over I couldāve read 12 chapters.
Oh no!! So actually you donāt have to end the chapter or spend gems. Once the buttons come up you can click the wait button and then just close out and come back after the amount of hours it says. Then you can click read next available chapters! Itās confusing, I know!!
Yep, I know. Itās SO annoying. Thereās not even a point of getting VIP if you canāt binge read. So so stupid. They just want our money. Theyāre gotten so selfish and greedy.
I totally agree!! Authors deserve support and I think early access is great, but the waiting period between chapters is literally driving me insane. If anything itās causing me to lose interest in the app and read stories less.
Wait I have a question I thought a couple of days ago if you was a amethyst vip did you have to wait in some chapter that make you wait or does it said since you a vip you can read the next chapter?
honestly the couldāve put āwould you like to support meā, gem choices. I find this greedy to be honest this whole wait HOURS & WEEKS to read a story? No! Itās so uncaused for. When you want reads, but tell your readers wait 11 hours or pay me gems. Thatās weird and petty, especially when not everyone has enough gems to constantly do this.
Hey, I hope youāre doing great!
Alright so first I wanna state that I mean no hate to the author, I just need somewhere to express myself.
I have read about 5 stories now and every single one of them says I have to wait 11 hours bro I am starting to lose my marbles! š„²š„²š„²š„² I also donāt have 16 gems to save a passsssss, I joined episode so I can read whenever I feel like it not to wait 11 hours after every 6 episodesā¦ anyway ahm thats itš
Iām with you there. Iām currently reading two different stories both with 40+ chapters each and after chapter 10+, every three chapters you have a 5 hour wait! Theyāre both completed and have been for a while (:
It does my head in that authors choose to use that way rather than support the author/bonus scenes/point additions etcā¦
I mean seriously, if your already a big author on the platform, your readers can keep you trending if you have support the author/bonus scenes/point additions etcā¦ options because youāve got more chance of them paying it instead of using EA or S-T-W options. No one pays EA or S-T-W since itās pretty pointless and itās used every few chapters making it expensive and if your like me and despise reading Episode original stories then gems are impossible to earn either way and I donāt spend real currency on gems/tickets for Episode
I feel you. It happens to me all the time. At some point I dropped the stories. Not worth it. Thatās the reason why I didnāt add those options to both my stories.
True! I can recommend you a few if you want, smaller authors donāt include those things.
I donāt have a problem with āsupport the authorā, early access and including some little gem options in the story. But I donāt like to wait for a story thatās already completed.