| I wonder what the responses would be. This would mean making compromises in budget, and actively trying find legal vendors of your target anime. Sources include: Crunchyroll, Hulu and Netflix for americans, amazon, local legal shops, etc. I personally shudder at the thought, given that I have no substantial source of income. But I reckon I'd get by with my Crunchyroll subscription and just try to import any highly recommended anime that wasn't in CR whenever I can. |
| I only watch it because it's free. |
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| If I had the money to do so, I'd continue watching on a pay-to-watch site. |
| No I would stop, Im not willing to spend 60+ dollars for a single anime. Nor will I ever subscribe to a streaming website. |
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| I'd continue to pre-order manga, and I'd still pre-order the FEW UK releases of interest... but paying for streamed content? No. I'd be better off paying for air. |
| Sadly, I don't think so.. I'd still read/buy manga though. |
| I don't mind subscribing to crunchyroll if they make enough titles available to where I live. But I don't think I will buy manga any more. |
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| Sadly no! |
| This world...is rotten |
AironicallyHuman said: I'd continue to pre-order manga, and I'd still pre-order the FEW UK releases of interest... but paying for streamed content? No. I'd be better off paying for air. Shuhan said: No I would stop, Im not willing to spend 60+ dollars for a single anime. Nor will I ever subscribe to a streaming website. I don't see why people are so averse to paying for streamed content. You pay an extremely low price for gaining access to watching anything and everything in a large library of anime until the period ends. Given that you usually only rewatch your favourites, this is a lot better than owning boxes of anime collecting dust. It also provides a great failsafe, since an anime you ended up not liking it will hardly affect you at all, compared to buying it and regretting it forever. Srsly, for crunchyroll its like $6 AUD (i think) for a month (that's less than a big mac meal over here). In that time, you can potentially watch 1800 episodes of anime. How many boxsets of physical copies would that make? :S And if you absolutely want to own a physical copy of an anime, then you can also buy it. You can do both, so I don't see why people completely omit paid streaming as a valid option. :S |
Revenant_Sep 19, 2012 6:54 AM
| If I can't physically own and, occasionally, stroke my possessions, it feels like I'm paying for nothing. That's the problem. And after so many years of downloading content for free, I can't get my head around the idea of paying for that very same content. /goes to put more of his manga into anti-dust bags |
| Paying for something with terrible quality isnt really my style. Literally everything I download now is 1080p. |
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| I would still watch, but I would be much pickier when it comes to what I watch, because I wouldn't want to pick something I ultimately end up disliking. |
Eyes always lose their fire |
shintai88 said: Thats why there is a thing called backing up, If you really want, you can back up all your downloaded anime onto external Hard drives blank Blu-Ray Discs or DVD's. Also Streaming is poor quality, slow, and to be honest annoying, I rather have the full copy on disc or to download, rather then to stream. I think you're misunderstanding me with my image of anime collecting dust. I was trying to denote money wasted due to lack of use. From what I've heard, its like $60 american and upwards for a complete series, which is humongous compared to what $5 american for stream. I wasn't saying anything about discs eventually failing. I don't know why you're talking about downloaded anime though, unless there's a legal service that provides complete downloads. And crunchyroll streams 1080p, albeit poor 1080p, but still remains completely fine for a tv under 60 inches. Well according speedtest.net, my internet (5 down, 1 up) is below half of the world's average. But still, I can stream 720p without buffering and on good days 1080p as well without issue. There's a seeking functionality in streamed videos, if the ability to skip through an episode is what your worried about. AironicallyHuman said: If I can't physically own and, occasionally, stroke my possessions, it feels like I'm paying for nothing. That's the problem. And after so many years of downloading content for free, I can't get my head around the idea of paying for that very same content. /goes to put more of his manga into anti-dust bags I guess me being part of the era that had already been largely digitised, that feeling of having to collect my possessions never sunk in :S I am more for functionality rather than sentimentality :S So would say that all these years of free anime was beneficial or detrimental for the studios and producers in the long run? I myself can't believe we've been this fortunate for such an extended period of time. |
| I already have a Crunchyroll sub. So I'd continue. |
| No. As of now I don't have any source of income except for my parents. If this happened while I had a job and finally got that credit card my parents have been denying me for so long, I'd continue. |
onedaysnotice said: I guess me being part of the era that had already been largely digitised, that feeling of having to collect my possessions never sunk in :S I am more for functionality rather than sentimentality :S So would say that all these years of free anime was beneficial or detrimental for the studios and producers in the long run? I myself can't believe we've been this fortunate for such an extended period of time. Nah, I don't think this has anything to do with generations etc. I'm only 17 years old myself so I'm part of your so called era but I still prefer having an actual physical (sp?) copy of my favourites over streams or downloads. But to answer your question I'd most likely describe to available streaming sites since I think their subscription fees are actually quite reasonable for the amount you get to watch and I'd just continue buying my favourites. Watching less will probably be inevitable though since I usually watch 80% of currently airing anime and some just won't be simulcasted. |
| Yes I usually watch anime on stream anyways lately. |
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| I already watch as much stuff legally as possible. No way would I stop. |
| There is no such thing as shit taste. Only idiots who think everyone should have the same taste as they do. |
| This is internet so that question is beyond impossible. But if that happens, there are a lot of ways. |
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| I wonder how many people are really being honest here. I think I'd stop watching myself.. Not sure though. It would be hard to decide what anime is worth spending money on since you'd have to spend that money first before reaching a decision :p Paying for streams would be the best solution I guess, even though I dislike streaming |
| "Open your closed mind and close your open mouth." |
| Yes ShatteredSkies said: I wonder how many people are really being honest here. I am |
| I would go buy a hat, wear it,then tip it and say goodbye to anime forever. No way I would pay to watch anime. I may have watched a lot of anime but it's only because it's free. |
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| wah! that is corrupted! the world is totally corrupted if that kind of things is really happening in real lifeee!!! but i think i will rewatch my fav. anime!! huhu! ^^ |
| As long as Crunchyroll keep their ad-supported free service, then yes. If not, then I would probably just buy whichever of my current fave thats have official DVDs/Blu-rays availible in the UK and watch those. There are too many mediocre series to make blind purchases unless they are dirt cheap. |
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| I can't stream, so, no. But I'll still buy manga. |
| I'd look at what's on my hard-drive and say, "this is all the anime in existence, it should last me." ShatteredSkies said: I wonder how many people are really being honest here. There's no such thing as being honest when talking about a theoretical scenario, there's only your best guess. |
LoneWolf said: @Josh makes me sad to call myself Canadian. |
Post-Josh said: ShatteredSkies said: I wonder how many people are really being honest here. There's no such thing as being honest when talking about a theoretical scenario, there's only your best guess. True true, being honest about your best guess then * :P |
| "Open your closed mind and close your open mouth." |
| I already watch 90% of my anime legally anyways so it wouldn't bug me....well unless its Gundam and Gundaminfo region cockblocks me like it did with AGE. |
"What has two arms, two legs, and is alive? Not your favorite character lol! xD" |
| No, because making that thing possible anime would have to be criminalized in similiar way as child porn. Its just not possible to stop people from copying and uploading. |
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| The Impossible scenario 101. |
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| If there was still a free to watch option then yes... |
| "Efficiency is not king, efficacy is." Post a comment on my profile. Profile comments are fun. |
| of course i would still watch anime. if you love something, whats a few bucks a month? I'm also surprised at the people who are saying they would quit watching. it seems like in general (from what i've seen this far) the people here are very passionate about anime. so yah, i'm surprised. i subscribe and fill in with free stuff. i have a thing about owning anime (mmm external harddrives - yum!) if someone took it away i'd feel like somebody took a real, tangible item from me. me no likee. |
| I'd stop |
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| I would still watch anime, yes. If this ever happened, there'd be new legal alternatives, including the ones we have now, that would use new business models to take advantage of all the illegal sources being shut down, similar to what STEAM did for PC Gaming. It'd actually make anime profitable again outside of Japan. Thankfully, this scenario would never ever happen in a million years. |
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| If the BLu-ray or DVD is available near my house or in the same city,i will still watch it.... It's not bad spending some money for my hobby... That's my opinion |
| I collect my favourite titles on DVD. But, to find those, I download and stream low quality illegally. I'd prefer to do things legally, but it's harder atm. I tried Crunchy Roll, and was really disapointed and infuriated by the lack of Australian liscening for shows. If they're going to remove illegal streams, they can at least give Australians (and others) a decent alternative first. What is also irritating is that it takes forever for a DVD version to reach Australia in the first place. I can't import it either because of region locking bullshit. This is why Australia has a high level of pirating. |
Yvese said: It'd actually make anime profitable again outside of Japan. Thankfully, this scenario would never ever happen in a million years. Why do you want the western anime industry to crash and burn? |
| There is no such thing as shit taste. Only idiots who think everyone should have the same taste as they do. |
kuuderes_shadow said: Because it's irrelevant. The foreign industry could die right now and it would have little effect to Japan.Yvese said: It'd actually make anime profitable again outside of Japan. Thankfully, this scenario would never ever happen in a million years. Why do you want the western anime industry to crash and burn? The real problem is that the industry in Japan itself isn't even popular. Why worry about foreign industries when they should worry about their own? Anime is still a niche market in Japan. If the industry is to thrive, they need to worry about making anime mainstream to the masses in Japan first before worrying about foreigners. |
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| I'll cry and then I would consider subscribing to Crunchyroll when I get a debit card :) |
| Crunchyroll would be my savior. |
| That would suck so much, but I would continue somehow... |
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| He said anime, so... I'll just continue reading manga. |
| Torrents will live on :) |
| Yes. |
| I would just borrow more and go back to optical-disk piracy time. Sharing with real life people was fine too. It doesn't makes much sense anyway. There will always be a way to share data on internet, it's the core of it. |
HapaxSep 19, 2012 12:42 PM
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