Crunchyroll Guts Online Store Just As Anime Fans Feared - Kotaku
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Many see this as yet another salvo in Sony's apparent war against physical media ownership
  • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.netEnglish
    15·
    8 天前

    I’m one of those crazy people that actually purchases media of the things I enjoy. I spent a lot of money on Right Stuf over the decades. Apparently Sony doesn’t want that money. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • jaygray91@piefed.zipEnglish
      6·
      8 天前

      Wrong kind of money. They want infinite money glitch from subscriptions that they can take away access willy nilly, not purchases that peasants like us can own and keep.

      • ReluctantZen@feddit.nlEnglish
        8·
        8 天前

        That’s the wild thing, they actually get less money that way. There are like 4 cases:

        1. You have both a CR subscription and buy the Blurays (that’s me).
        2. You pirate the simulcasts and buy the Blurays.
        3. You only stream.
        4. You only pirate.

        Cases 3 & 4 remain the same. Case 2 will not suddenly go to a subscription and case 1 already has a subscription. So cases 1 & 2 simply become cases 3 & 4. There is no extra money to be made, only less.

        Technically there is a case 5, where you only buy the Blurays, but that seems very much an edge case or only theoretical.

        • Unique_Emerald_Sol_I@ani.socialEnglish
          1·
          6 天前

          I’ve never made the switch over to Blu-ray (and every Blu-ray I have been gifted has been a terrible experience for me – WHY AM I NOT ALLOWED TO PUT SUBTITLES ON WITH THE ENGLISH AUDIO‽‽‽ IF YOU’RE NOT GOING TO PROVIDE CAPTIONS I NEED SOMETHING) so I was involuntarily placed into case 4 some years ago because anime seems to have stopped releasing on DVD at all.

          I also used to love buying from RightStuf, as well, but I’m not wanted apparently.

          • ReluctantZen@feddit.nlEnglish
            1·
            6 天前

            WHY AM I NOT ALLOWED TO PUT SUBTITLES ON WITH THE ENGLISH AUDIO‽‽‽ IF YOU’RE NOT GOING TO PROVIDE CAPTIONS I NEED SOMETHING)

            My guess: because the English subtitles will not match with the English dub. I can imagine that would be even more confusing/distracting.

            • Unique_Emerald_Sol_I@ani.socialEnglish
              3·
              5 天前

              I get where you’re coming from but bruh I have piss-poor hearing (probably genetic, too). I’ve always watched anime with subtitles even in English because I WILL miss things otherwise. Hell, half the reason I tend towards subs isn’t for the dumb notions of purity of translation but because 90% of the time the English audio balancing sucks so bad that I literally can’t hear things even will the volume turned ALL the way up. I swear those Blu-rays I got have English audio tracks at half the volume of the Japanese.

        • jaygray91@piefed.zipEnglish
          3·
          8 天前

          For sure. I would like to be Case 2, but I am current not able to so it’s Case 4 then. A shame, really. I didn’t check for the longest time but pretty sure they don’t ship what they’re selling to my country.

          • ReluctantZen@feddit.nlEnglish
            3·
            8 天前

            I never bought directly from CR, because they don’t sell it here either and are the wrong region for my player, but they do a lot of releasing here through other sellers. But if they don’t sell through their own shop, I doubt they will through others…