Discussion Qidian professionalism (Nightfall)

It is an industry that does not ay well. I believe interpreters make more money. It is a consequence of our low cost culture. Professional translators can charge up to $500 per chapter. The best readers can hope for, is that the translators get better on the job.
Quality control will be nice, a dedicated them of editors or something, but you have people blocking Qidian, Qidian ad block etc
I think if the venture was earning enough money then they can focus on improving quality.
Now they are relying on quantity to generate revenue by pulling in as many readers as possible.
Also the translators might actually be good but Mao Ni's works are usually very difficult to translate.
Being fluent in Chinese and English does not work
even being bilingual might not work either. You might need to have studied Chinese literature in school

PS You had people complain about English licensing companies like Yen Press taking too long to release English translations. Quality takes time.
You have to give up something, quality if you want quantity

 

THAT IS HOW I FELT OMG!! You said how I felt exactly! Leecher me feels that I should not complain but there must be justice for such a work with great potential!

 

well that happen because QI strategy to get mind share is "Quantity over Quality" . tbh it perfectly good strategy because most of community wanted "big quantity with okayish quality" over "low quantity with Perfect Quality".
the only few translator that i can think of that can do "big quantity with perfect qualilty" is Ren and Deathblade (which is the only exception on translation community)

 

Pretty sure it depends on the translator group. Some Qidian novels have amazing translation. And some are shit with primary school level grammar.

 

There is also goddess Rainbowturtle with her good quality and great speed for free too.She is the best imo

 

I hope the good translators and the shit translators do not get the same pay as that is quite sad for those who work super hard for good quality stuff.

 

TransN is a terrible translation group on Qidian, their grasp of the English language is faulty at best

 

For a very good novel, i wouldn't mind watching a 5 minute long ad if that gets them revenue enough to do a proper job of their translation.

 

oh shit, sorry
how can i forget our goddes rainbowturle ..
forgive me goddess

i said to get "mind share" which is to promote QI to reader .
after that how you can convert your "mind share" into "market share" which lead to income is another problem ( for example upgrading their quality control or that premium chapter etc ).
for now i think they just want to expand and to beat another translation site mindshare (ie Wuxiaworld)

 

That what I was thinking and currently on the Qidian community there is a saturation of what seems to be people who care only for FACE-SLAPPING KILLER OP MCs or EXP sects, I don't mind too much about them as each their own but there is a lack of other audiences, which I feel would like novels such as Nightfall which is slower but builds the environment. They are missing out by giving lackluster translation which chases people away.

 

Its QiShit even care with professionalism ?

*nah forget it* *im just passing by*

 

now that they want our money but they keep feed us some half ass translation

 

I feel tempted to drop the novel when the translation is so half ass so I do not think they will profit if they continue like this in the future.

 

As long as I don't pay any bucks for it and they don't go down to MTL level, then I am cool. I mean even if they're giving me a bad translation I wouldn't have known anyway. CN is not something that I would come back reading, they're just stuff that is fun reading in the moment.

 

A good deal of readers are not from English speaking countries with English as their third, fourth or even fifth language. I would argue they do not care or even see much of a difference in the quality. I would argue that it is growing pains as I have seen poor quality even on Wuxiaworld but I compared the releases between them and QI and QI has more releases.
According to statistics, translators make peanuts, there is a limit to the number of quality translators that any company can find. We have had Apple casegate. Samsung phones exploding. To me it is not a surprise, especially when dealing with a large company.
Competition will be nice, Crunchyroll also had horrible subs at the beginning or stole fan translations ( see the similarity haha)
People are mocking QI but these bad practices are pretty standard until they gain a foothold and start chasing quality when they have the quantity they think they need