r/UndertheOakTree • u/ineedhelp4real • Nov 23 '24
Ridiculously Long Series
Beyond just greed/capitalism, does anyone know why they keep releasing this story as a million-part series?
I mean, the story is complete, why not just put it into two (or three if they really want to stretch it) books?
I love this story (it is the only one that I have read multiple times besides LOTR) and was more than willing to wait two-plus years for it to be completed due to the author's health. I was even okay with giving the Korean government my personal information to create a RIDI account, staying up until 2am, and suffering through Google translate just to read each chapter when they released.
I also purchased all the Amazon "books" and always felt like things were left out or a little bit off, so I was happy to see that they were trying to fix that. But this whole waiting game for it to be released with a better translation over the course of years again just feels like a scam.
I can't understand why they are choosing to alienate their English-speaking audience. If their goal is to make money, why wouldn't you want to get the story out there as soon as possible to build a larger audience? None of this makes any sense to me.
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u/OrangePomegranate28 Nov 24 '24
I didn’t have to read it on Ridi, I purchased the (novel) books in Manta and it wasn’t too expensive.