| Damn crunchyroll and their money-hungry admins, i've supported them despite some really awful decisions for one reason. It was free. A year ago 98% of their library was completely free, Aside from yosuga no sora. That's exactly why i chose them over funimation and hidive. But over the past few weeks, i swear it seems like everything on that site is now locked to premium. I stuck through there horrible UI, screwing up the queue system and every other screwup they've had. Now they're trying to alienate everyone from the site. Those Greedy Money-hungry admins. |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. |
| Locking everything behind paywalls isn't gonna make more people watch your crap, it'll just make most of them find "Other" ways to watch. |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. |
| To be fair people who seriously use Crunchyroll or Funimation in 2022 are beyond help and just want to suffer and waste money. |
| >Using Crunchyroll in 2022 Lmao nice joke you got there. INB4 shills go "but much piracy!" |
| "Well, she's flatter than a pancake" -Mimi Alpacas "Woof" -Tobiichi Origami "Are you trying to turn the dormitory into a strip club!?! -Atena Saotome |
| >"To be fair people who seriously use Crunchyroll or Funimation in 2022 are beyond help and just want to suffer and waste money." I use CrunchyRoll Premium because I have very poor internet access (or none at all quite often) where I live, so I can download a bunch for offline viewing on my Kindle and then watch them as needed. I do the same with Netflix. Perhaps not the best streaming services ever, but offline viewing that is easy to queue up (and quickly download) when I'm around good 'net access is a huge plus to me. |
| Wanting free stuff is pretty socialist, I hear. Seeing as you weren't paying for their services I doubt they'll even realize that you're gone. |
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| I still use VRV and it works fine. Although I pay a meager fee every month for premium. I couldn't use the Crunchyroll website tho. Just a waste of money since I don't even watch that much anime. |
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| Good thing I have a friend willing to let others use their account. My entire entertainment budget goes strictly to video games. |
| What changed? I rarely ever use crunchyroll but I just looked the few anime I watched there and they all seem to be entirely free still...minus School Live that apparently got out of the service. |
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| will never get a crunchyroll subscription disgusting company. I pirate anime, but I support the creators either by buying the manga/light novel or anime blurays and dvds. |
Satyr_icon said: What changed? I rarely ever use crunchyroll but I just looked the few anime I watched there and they all seem to be entirely free still...minus School Live that apparently got out of the service. A lot of series that were formerly free are now premium only, it feels like most of what i've got in my list in premium only. |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. |
| Well, at least they don't produce content themselves. I dread to imagine what could happen if most of the anime of these streaming services were produced by them. |
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| I've got a subscription since 2014 and I don't regret spending nearly $1000 for them up until now. |
| I am surprised you've suffered through trying to use Crunchyroll for free even when more stuff was available. It's basically an unusable website. |
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| I'm sure they'll miss your non-business. |
| Are you watching recent anime, like from Spring/Summer 2022, or older anime? https://animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-03-26/crunchyroll-to-halt-ad-supported-simulcast-streaming-starting-with-spring-2022-season/.184038 Crunchyroll will no longer offer free ad-supported viewing starting with its spring 2022 season line-up. Crunchyroll will instead require that viewers have a subscription to access new and continuing simulcasts. Episodes of anime prior to this spring season will still be available to watch for free with ads. The company added that it will continue to "make new content available for free with ads" and that it is "only stopping the automatic free availability of all simulcast content." TheBlockernator said: Locking everything behind paywalls isn't gonna make more people watch your crap, it'll just make most of them find "Other" ways to watch. So piracy really is a pricing problem? Dragevard said: You thought cable tv is cancerous, but streaming subscription is way more cancerous. Each streaming platform has become a "cable tv channel" with their own exclusive content. There is no bundle deal like cable tv. You will have to pay for each and every individual service you need at full price from their respective provider How is that any different? It's just allowing consumers to pay for the "channels" they want, instead of being forced into paying for channels they don't care about in a bundle deal. Maybe it wasn't ever realistic for consumers to expect to get the same amount of content they got from cable from a single streaming subscription at 1/10 the price with no commercials. ateks said: To be fair people who seriously use Crunchyroll or Funimation in 2022 are beyond help and just want to suffer and waste money. Crow_Black said: Piracy and fan translations ftw. Guess where the same-day translations you're getting via piracy for modern airing anime are coming from: not from fans, but from CR, Funimation, HiDive, Netflix, or whoever else has the license. What's worse, being "beyond help and wanting to suffer and waste money," or being dependent on those people for your entertainment? Enjoy waiting months for fan translations that might not ever materialize if those companies ever go out of business or stop licensing anime. |
on AniMarter said: I'm sure they'll miss your non-business. I'm sure they made al ot of money off ad revenue with all the stuff i've watched on there. |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. |
Zalis said: Are you watching recent anime, like from Spring/Summer 2022, or older anime? https://animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-03-26/crunchyroll-to-halt-ad-supported-simulcast-streaming-starting-with-spring-2022-season/.184038 Crunchyroll will no longer offer free ad-supported viewing starting with its spring 2022 season line-up. Crunchyroll will instead require that viewers have a subscription to access new and continuing simulcasts. Episodes of anime prior to this spring season will still be available to watch for free with ads. The company added that it will continue to "make new content available for free with ads" and that it is "only stopping the automatic free availability of all simulcast content." TheBlockernator said: Locking everything behind paywalls isn't gonna make more people watch your crap, it'll just make most of them find "Other" ways to watch. So piracy really is a pricing problem? Dragevard said: You thought cable tv is cancerous, but streaming subscription is way more cancerous. Each streaming platform has become a "cable tv channel" with their own exclusive content. There is no bundle deal like cable tv. You will have to pay for each and every individual service you need at full price from their respective provider How is that any different? It's just allowing consumers to pay for the "channels" they want, instead of being forced into paying for channels they don't care about in a bundle deal. Maybe it wasn't ever realistic for consumers to expect to get the same amount of content they got from cable from a single streaming subscription at 1/10 the price with no commercials. ateks said: To be fair people who seriously use Crunchyroll or Funimation in 2022 are beyond help and just want to suffer and waste money. Crow_Black said: Piracy and fan translations ftw. Guess where the same-day translations you're getting via piracy for modern airing anime are coming from: not from fans, but from CR, Funimation, HiDive, Netflix, or whoever else has the license. What's worse, being "beyond help and wanting to suffer and waste money," or being dependent on those people for your entertainment? Enjoy waiting months for fan translations that might not ever materialize if those companies ever go out of business or stop licensing anime. No, i mostly watch older stuff, it seems like a ton of older series and newer series are all paywalled. Back then, it used to just be new episodes. "So piracy really is a pricing problem?" Yes, for me at least. Being free and convenient is the main reason i started using CR and stopped using piracy sites. What's the reason for other people? Price and availability was what i always assumed the reasons were. |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. |
| I started a few anime on Crunchyroll because it's available on PS4 and less effort compared to downloading. I checked Crunchyroll again just recently and all but one are now premium only |
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AniMarter said: I'm sure they'll miss your non-business. ads and pageviews if crunchyroll got all of their user revenue from premium subscriptions, then nothing on the website would have ever been free one person doesn't matter, but if 20% of their traffic was gone, even if they hadn't spent a dime, yeah they would probably miss it |
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| Crunchyroll is like Roblox except unlike Roblox there was never a "golden age" or time it was considered good. Fuck them lol. |
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Zalis said: Guess where the same-day translations you're getting via piracy for modern airing anime are coming from: not from fans, but from CR, Funimation, HiDive, Netflix, or whoever else has the license. What's worse, being "beyond help and wanting to suffer and waste money," or being dependent on those people for your entertainment? Enjoy waiting months for fan translations that might not ever materialize if those companies ever go out of business or stop licensing anime. I don't need to consume everything on the first day after release. Subs used to be much better over 10 years ago and I gladly waited for them. I hope they go out of business because they are a disgrace for the whole anime industry. |
| If you watch stuff for free on Crunchyroll then you are stuck with their old UI, the new one is much better. Crow_Black said: That moment when the "sjw brainless insects" are investing in the production of shows like Shield Hero and Slave Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World.....LOL what the fuck does one expect from those sjw brainless insects? they've been doing that since the dawn of time lmao. Piracy and fan translations ftw. RobertBobert said: Obviously they don't make anime as they don't have a studio, but they do co-produce anime through production committees. Well, at least they don't produce content themselves. I dread to imagine what could happen if most of the anime of these streaming services were produced by them. Tho in 95% of cases they aren't the main producers/investors, that role is usally left to companies like Kadokawa or Kodansha. But there are a few shows where they were the main producers, like that really shitty soccer anime from this current season, or also from this season, the 3rd season of that White Fox anime. |
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TheBlockernator said: Locking everything behind paywalls isn't gonna make more people watch your crap, it'll just make most of them find "Other" ways to watch. I don't blame Crunchyroll for doing what virtually all of its competitors are doing. I do blame Crunchyroll for the constant crashes I don't experience on other video sites. |
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MadanielFL said: If you watch stuff for free on Crunchyroll then you are stuck with their old UI, the new one is much better. Crow_Black said: That moment when the "sjw brainless insects" are investing in the production of shows like Shield Hero and Slave Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World.....LOL what the fuck does one expect from those sjw brainless insects? they've been doing that since the dawn of time lmao. Piracy and fan translations ftw. RobertBobert said: Obviously they don't make anime as they don't have a studio, but they do co-produce anime through production committees. Well, at least they don't produce content themselves. I dread to imagine what could happen if most of the anime of these streaming services were produced by them. Tho in 95% of cases they aren't the main producers/investors, that role is usally left to companies like Kadokawa or Kodansha. But there are a few shows where they were the main producers, like that really shitty soccer anime from this current season, or also from this season, the 3rd season of that White Fox anime. Looks too budget friendly. Especially against the backdrop of Netflix with their collaboration with Trigger and Wit Studio. |
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MadanielFL said: If you watch stuff for free on Crunchyroll then you are stuck with their old UI, the new one is much better. Crow_Black said: That moment when the "sjw brainless insects" are investing in the production of shows like Shield Hero and Slave Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World.....LOL what the fuck does one expect from those sjw brainless insects? they've been doing that since the dawn of time lmao. Piracy and fan translations ftw. RobertBobert said: Obviously they don't make anime as they don't have a studio, but they do co-produce anime through production committees. Well, at least they don't produce content themselves. I dread to imagine what could happen if most of the anime of these streaming services were produced by them. Tho in 95% of cases they aren't the main producers/investors, that role is usally left to companies like Kadokawa or Kodansha. But there are a few shows where they were the main producers, like that really shitty soccer anime from this current season, or also from this season, the 3rd season of that White Fox anime. It' not anime but wouldn't High Guardian Spice count as something they produced? |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. |
RobertBobert said: Well I don't think Netflix has ever worked with Trigger before, even shows like Little Witch Academia and BNA, Netflix wasn't actually part of the production committee. MadanielFL said: If you watch stuff for free on Crunchyroll then you are stuck with their old UI, the new one is much better. That moment when the "sjw brainless insects" are investing in the production of shows like Shield Hero and Slave Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World..... Obviously they don't make anime as they don't have a studio, but they do co-produce anime through production committees. Tho in 95% of cases they aren't the main producers/investors, that role is usally left to companies like Kadokawa or Kodansha. But there are a few shows where they were the main producers, like that really shitty soccer anime from this current season, or also from this season, the 3rd season of that White Fox anime. Looks too budget friendly. Especially against the backdrop of Netflix with their collaboration with Trigger and Wit Studio. And of course with Edgerunners the producers were CDPR and not Netflix. In comparison, Crunchyroll has worked with Trigger in two separate ocassions, in 2016 they co-produced both Kiznaiver and Space Patrol Luluco. But yeah, most shows co-produced by Crunchyroll are usually not those super big productions like Demon Slayer or Spy x Family, I very much doubt they would be invited to take part in a project of that size. |
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TheBlockernator said: High Guardian Spice and Onyx Equinox would be the only two shows actually made by a Crunchyroll studio, but those two shows aren't considered anime obviously. MadanielFL said: If you watch stuff for free on Crunchyroll then you are stuck with their old UI, the new one is much better. That moment when the "sjw brainless insects" are investing in the production of shows like Shield Hero and Slave Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World..... Obviously they don't make anime as they don't have a studio, but they do co-produce anime through production committees. Tho in 95% of cases they aren't the main producers/investors, that role is usally left to companies like Kadokawa or Kodansha. But there are a few shows where they were the main producers, like that really shitty soccer anime from this current season, or also from this season, the 3rd season of that White Fox anime. It' not anime but wouldn't High Guardian Spice count as something they produced? And I think that Crunchyroll studio shut down some time ago. Edit: Oh yeah there's also FreakAngels |
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| I think it's mostly for new stuff , but yeah pretty shitty of crunchyroll it's not like you're not giving anything by watching freemium, because you have to suffer those annoying ads where they play the same ad three times in a row just to annoy you so you'll subscribe, I would sub to crunchyroll but there's not enough anime on there that interests me to justify it, for new stuff l might have to just wait for a physical release. |
Skullknight91 said: I think it's mostly for new stuff , but yeah pretty shitty of crunchyroll it's not like you're not giving anything by watching freemium, because you have to suffer those annoying ads where they play the same ad three times in a row just to annoy you so you'll subscribe, I would sub to crunchyroll but there's not enough anime on there that interests me to justify it, for new stuff l might have to just wait for a physical release. It's the new stuff, plus a lot of series that have been free for awhile, just out of nowhere is premium only. |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. |
| Nobody here cares about munchymole my friend.. Everybody is on team luffy. |
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| Just to clarify for anyone, when TheBlockernator says "free", know that the content was free to watch as long as you watched a bunch of advertisements. Though, I wouldn't doubt if the amount of people who used ad blockers to avoid ads made it not all that worth it in comparison to subscription money. TheBlockernator, I totally understand. I've been using Crunchyroll since 2006, back when they were a site that pirated anime. I was a little annoyed when they put up the paywall for new seasonals, but I knew I couldn't really complain. Admittedly, I'd forget to turn off adblock most of the time, so I figured I had received my just deserts. For some reason it was the switching to premium for shows that were 200+ episodes in that kinda threw me off because I thought I'd have those at the very least (because at first they hadn't made them premium). And then a few of us just kinda mentioned it and they deleted our posts. We posted again. They deleted them again. Like, hello? We still have a voice. Most of us weren't even saying anything bad. So yeah. Screw 'em. I tried to be good and did wait a whole season to see if they'd make the seasonals that ended free with ads, but they didn't... so now I'm just a whole season behind on anime. And gosh I despise their new design so much. Dark screens with light text hurt my eyes so much. Anyway, I can complain all I want, but I understand that someone's putting in the work so someone should get paid. I don't feel I'm entitled to anything, I just wanted to complain for a second. I say a lot of the above out of annoyance now, but I know I'll likely end up subscribing in the future anyway. I had been planning years ago to subscribe after university/college was done anyway. Applying for jobs/interviewing right now, but I just don't have money to spend on monthly subscriptions at the moment. |
| My only gripe with CR is that they haven't moved more anime over from Funimation. I'm still waiting on so many series to land, Railgun, Index, Hanayamata, Record of Lodoss War... When I read these threads I always wonder, do anime watchers realise that a CR subscription is only £6 here in the UK (that's actually $7 now with the pound so low), for comparison that's the cost of a pint or 2 cups of coffee at Starbucks. How bloody cheap are anime fans. I get if you are still at home with your parents (maybe in their basement, lol) and don't have your own income (or college/uni students, I know how tough it is surviving on meagre uni income) for everyone else, cheap bastards. |
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23feanor said: My only gripe with CR is that they haven't moved more anime over from Funimation. I'm still waiting on so many series to land, Railgun, Index, Hanayamata, Record of Lodoss War... When I read these threads I always wonder, do anime watchers realise that a CR subscription is only £6 here in the UK (that's actually $7 now with the pound so low), for comparison that's the cost of a pint or 2 cups of coffee at Starbucks. How bloody cheap are anime fans. I get if you are still at home with your parents (maybe in their basement, lol) and don't have your own income (or college/uni students, I know how tough it is surviving on meagre uni income) for everyone else, cheap bastards. Personally, i live off disability and i honestly feel like i don't watch enough to justify a subscription. (Plus, i feel like it might be a convenience thing too. I don't know why but anime alwys seemed easier to pirate then other normal movies. |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. |
Zalis said: Guess where the same-day translations you're getting via piracy for modern airing anime are coming from: not from fans, but from CR, Funimation, HiDive, Netflix, or whoever else has the license. What's worse, being "beyond help and wanting to suffer and waste money," or being dependent on those people for your entertainment? Enjoy waiting months for fan translations that might not ever materialize if those companies ever go out of business or stop licensing anime. That's exactly the reason why modern subs suck - because they are made by these companies. Them going out of business would be a great thing for all anime fans worldwide. Not to mention, the real way to support the creators is to buy official merch - blu rays, figurines, etc. Paying money to CR doesn't improve the industry in any way. |
| Look what they did to their forums Then to Australias convention scene What they did to their employees ETC ETC............yeeaaaaaaaaaaaaah fuck cr |
| I never really liked crunchyroll. Here in europe they barely have any shows avaliable, so it was always a waste of money |
| Your first mistake was using a streaming service. Worse quality, less content, bad service, no flexibility, time-limited (sometimes) and you don't own what you paid for. Torrent, buy Blu-rays, buy merch and manga if you really want to support the creators. That's how you do it. |
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| sorry, can't relate, I am a pirate, I will never pay for watching anime |
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| I use crunchyroll more for the ease. I usually watch anime on my PS4, and is very hard to pirate anime there |
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TheBlockernator said: But over the past few weeks, i swear it seems like everything on that site is now locked to premium. I stuck through there horrible UI, screwing up the queue system and every other screwup they've had. Now they're trying to alienate everyone from the site. Those Greedy Money-hungry admins. Maybe with my Design Degree I'm getting soon, I can go work there and sort out their disgusting UI. Challenge Accepted. |
  『ᴅᴇᴍᴏɴ-ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴊᴜᴅɢᴇ ᴏꜰ ꜰɪʀᴇ』 Then her jaw slackened as she muttered out. [I... am the bi◼️?] ☽ † ☾ - ᴅᴇʟɪᴠᴇʀɪᴇꜱ- ꜱɪɢ ᴍᴀᴅᴇ ʙʏ ʜᴜᴍᴀɴᴛᴡɪɢ |
| I wish i could support the anime industry via official streaming sites but there are some factors that makes me stay away: 1. The catalog of Crunchy/Netflix isn't that big compared to your average pirate anime site and the anime that is available on the former 2 aren't going to stay forever with a few exceptions (and it kind of forces you to watch a certain anime as soon as possible and if you miss it you will end up watching it on a pirate site and if you really want to support it your only options are buying the blurays/dvds and maybe the merch of it) and also unlike most anime watchers of today, I'm actually open to occasionally watch old/lesser-known anime and it includes anime that not even western licensors like Discotek Media would be interested to license for either streaming or home video. 2. Those companies practices are controversial, mostly on the translation/dubbing part that involve a certain thing that pretty much everyone here knows about them so I'm not going to mention it to avoid problems, sadly this also affected licensing in other countries such as Spain if you don't believe me just search about the komi San's European Spanish Netflix dub controversy (and if you have actual knowledge of Spanish you will understand it better). So far, the best thing i could do to support the original creators is by buying the manga directly from stores, buying the merch i like (even tough most of the time is used and i only occasionally buy it when it comes out when i have the chance) and maybe buy it on home video but not the English editions but the European Spanish ones (Latin American ones are almost non existent due to the high piracy rates in the region) from licensors that i trust, if i had the chance now i would buy the lain DVD but the importing costs may be a bit expensive. |
| I know your PTW list is bigger than your completed list. |
| This is only happening because Funanimation has merged with Crunchyroll, so Crunchyroll is adopting this thing to have the account for free but with a very restricted catalog. Look, I thought this was horrible because it just doesn't make any sense anymore for you to have a free account there, because it's just become stupid and it's kind of forcing you to have a paid account. It would be better to eliminate the free account option and have only the paid account because those who have the free account look like an idiot with something very restricted. |
need4power said: How is the quality worse? Videos on Crunchyroll always play 1080p with no buffering 100% of the time, can't say the same for pirate streaming sites (I know torrent is different) Your first mistake was using a streaming service. Worse quality, less content, bad service, no flexibility, time-limited (sometimes) and you don't own what you paid for. Torrent, buy Blu-rays, buy merch and manga if you really want to support the creators. That's how you do it. Time limited? I think this is more of a problem with muse asia and those other asian licensors. It's very rare for Crunchyroll to be losing anime due to licenses expiring. Buying blu-rays? Well the blu-rays here are released by Crunchyroll anyways lol. |
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MadanielFL said: need4power said: How is the quality worse? Videos on Crunchyroll always play 1080p with no buffering 100% of the time, can't say the same for pirate streaming sites (I know torrent is different) Your first mistake was using a streaming service. Worse quality, less content, bad service, no flexibility, time-limited (sometimes) and you don't own what you paid for. Torrent, buy Blu-rays, buy merch and manga if you really want to support the creators. That's how you do it. Time limited? I think this is more of a problem with muse asia and those other asian licensors. It's very rare for Crunchyroll to be losing anime due to licenses expiring. Buying blu-rays? Well the blu-rays here are released by Crunchyroll anyways lol. You're mistaken to be thinking that video resolution is a way to measure quality. Streaming compression and bitrate are a thing to consider. Even a 4K video can be discolored and full of image artifacts, there is no correlation. There is a noticeable difference, especially when you have the flexibility to play your videos with your own preferred software and with a high quality renderer. Why not have the best experience possible? Pirate streaming sites suffer from the same issue due to the nature of the tech. Same with any torrent whose source is from a streaming app. As for time-limited content, I wasn't talking about Crunchyroll specifically but about streaming services in general. You never know when something can be taken away from you. Especially apparent on Netflix. It can be a year from now, 5 years, it doesn't matter. Maybe it's rare now, but maybe it won't be soon. The point is, they are the ones who holds the content, not you. As for Blu-rays, my last sentence was confusing. There is no problem if you want to buy Blu-rays from Crunchyroll. It's probably even preferable for your experience, if you have the money. What I meant to say is, buy merch and manga if you want to support the creator. |
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need4power said: Merch isn't even the largest soure of revenue for the industry anymore, and you only buy merch for the series you like, if you wanted to be ethical you would have to buy merch for every series you have ever pirated. MadanielFL said: How is the quality worse? Videos on Crunchyroll always play 1080p with no buffering 100% of the time, can't say the same for pirate streaming sites (I know torrent is different) Time limited? I think this is more of a problem with muse asia and those other asian licensors. It's very rare for Crunchyroll to be losing anime due to licenses expiring. Buying blu-rays? Well the blu-rays here are released by Crunchyroll anyways lol. You're mistaken to be thinking that video resolution is a way to measure quality. Streaming compression and bitrate are a thing to consider. Even a 4K video can be discolored and full of image artifacts, there is no correlation. There is a noticeable difference, especially when you have the flexibility to play your videos with your own preferred software and with a high quality renderer. Why not have the best experience possible? Pirate streaming sites suffer from the same issue due to the nature of the tech. Same with any torrent whose source is from a streaming app. As for time-limited content, I wasn't talking about Crunchyroll specifically but about streaming services in general. You never know when something can be taken away from you. Especially apparent on Netflix. It can be a year from now, 5 years, it doesn't matter. Maybe it's rare now, but maybe it won't be soon. The point is, they are the ones who holds the content, not you. As for Blu-rays, my last sentence was confusing. There is no problem if you want to buy Blu-rays from Crunchyroll. It's probably even preferable for your experience, if you have the money. What I meant to say is, buy merch and manga if you want to support the creator. And buying merch doesn't mean your money would be going more directly to the "creators" anyways, after all the money goes to the production committee, and only if the studio is part of that committee would they actually see the money. And the problem with torrent is that it doens't work for me, maybe it does for you, but I watch mostly new seasonal anime, and I don't have the time to be downloading new episodes every single day. And also torrent is limited on the number of devices, I can't really watch it on my smart TV or PS5. And I may be able to watch it on my phone or tablet but even then it would be much easier to just use the Cr app. |
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MadanielFL said: need4power said: Merch isn't even the largest soure of revenue for the industry anymore, and you only buy merch for the series you like, if you wanted to be ethical you would have to buy merch for every series you have ever pirated. You're mistaken to be thinking that video resolution is a way to measure quality. Streaming compression and bitrate are a thing to consider. Even a 4K video can be discolored and full of image artifacts, there is no correlation. There is a noticeable difference, especially when you have the flexibility to play your videos with your own preferred software and with a high quality renderer. Why not have the best experience possible? Pirate streaming sites suffer from the same issue due to the nature of the tech. Same with any torrent whose source is from a streaming app. As for time-limited content, I wasn't talking about Crunchyroll specifically but about streaming services in general. You never know when something can be taken away from you. Especially apparent on Netflix. It can be a year from now, 5 years, it doesn't matter. Maybe it's rare now, but maybe it won't be soon. The point is, they are the ones who holds the content, not you. As for Blu-rays, my last sentence was confusing. There is no problem if you want to buy Blu-rays from Crunchyroll. It's probably even preferable for your experience, if you have the money. What I meant to say is, buy merch and manga if you want to support the creator. And buying merch doesn't mean your money would be going more directly to the "creators" anyways, after all the money goes to the production committee, and only if the studio is part of that committee would they actually see the money. And the problem with torrent is that it doens't work for me, maybe it does for you, but I watch mostly new seasonal anime, and I don't have the time to be downloading new episodes every single day. And also torrent is limited on the number of devices, I can't really watch it on my smart TV or PS5. And I may be able to watch it on my phone or tablet but even then it would be much easier to just use the Cr app. True. I understand you. I'm watching mainly on my PC connected to my TV. I can't deny the ease of use of streaming. |
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