I don’t really mind gem choices, as long as theyre not for every choice like episode does it then its fine. like if its at the end of a story to support the author then yea ill choose it if i have some left over from getting free gems from reading episode original stories. early access? i dont really mind that since im busy with school & coding my own story so I have the patience to wait, I feel like its really the people who are impatient (dont get me wrong i get it, like if a story is good and you dont want to wait it gets frustrating) who get upset. Now I kind of dont really mind it but at the same time it gets me the teeniest bit upset because mainly the stories who have gem choices get recognized & shown the most in the categories so it makes it hard for smaller authors like me to get the recognition we deserve but thats not the author’s fault, theyre just trying to get recogized & people to read their story too, its episode’s fault for promoting the same stories over & over again. other than that i agree with everything you said 
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