anime

Not counting metalic rogue ending, my next show is slime on friday

there's a reverse isekai on thursday that might be passible

here's a show for @Dane

no you should free the slave

elves belong in chains

6 hours remain

does this coincide with the CR price hike?

I think it's going to $100/year, but not till the end of the year??

idk, since it doesn't effect me I haven't really been tracking how much they're fucking over normies

yeah, $100-$150/year depenidng on your plan starts in Jan 2025

I think that's more than double what it was before

wasn't it $39.99/year?

~$55 per year yea

I remember it being around 2x a hike

Actually hilarious

I mean, I feel the same way about Netflix

I couldn't conceive of paying more than $100/year for a TV channel

Will make watching with friends a bit more annoying, but oh well.

CR doesn't have a in-built watchtogether thing do they?

that might accidentally add too much value

CR's site, player, apps, etc. were always barely functional from what I remember and how people talk about it

Not sure, I share an account and then watch with multiple people in person. I think almost every service has a CR app aswell

oh, in-person

icic

I thought you meant they had a watch party feature thing

or there was some 3rd party app that did watch-togethers

Yes, the rare occasion of leaving my home. The only watch together feature I've seen is, I think Amazon

Of course not Spooky, that would imply they put any more than the bare minimum into their product

CR does not do that

that's what I assumed Pika, just had to be sure

CR always seemed more interested in using their money on things besides their product

like HGS

High Guardian Spice beat me to it Leg

Beat me to it

For what it is worth, I did enjoy us watching HGS

we watched all of it if you count skpping from episode 2 to the last episode all of it

we made it through 4 whole episodes

HGS was not the worst thing we have ever watched

Discords YT watch together is decent, though not perfect

Discords feels half-baked

I wouldn't mind it as much it I could log into an account to videos weren't blocked

Discord has the benifit of having monopolized internet communities from every other platform, so even if they release something half baked it is still a feature

CR is competing with piracy

which is always better

Big true Pika

Anime piracy especially

the most autistic dedicated people on the planet

Steam is the only online distributor that I think adds enough value that most people will not pirate

well, and a lot of people like spotify

music streaming hasn't crashed yet

it's a fine line

because musicians are making NOTHING anymore

anime streaming has never been good, and has never tried to be good, so it is always better to just pirate it

either from 9anime or torrenting

I had boomers at work talking about pirating today

because someone recommended an Apple+ show

I mean, im not as big of a fan, but is there much an anime website could add for value?

Watch 2 gether

Simulcast is minimum right

btw polar, 9anime has a watch 2 gether feature which is hilarious

the random piracy site has a better feature set then CR

(it's alright)

it's the same watchtogether feature that Emby/Plex implemented, which is cool, open source reuse

but it's not perfect

Huh. I've been watching stuff on 9anime for a bit now and never knew.

Simulcast is not a valid enough feature to beat piracy, because the torrents just steal those and reupload them right away

you need to add features beyond the content you host

at the very least, make your catalogue super convinient to do things with

at a bare minimum, you need a complete catalogue then you add social features on-top of that, livechat simulcast, private watchtogethers, app support everywhere, integration with all the major index/database sites lean into providing high quality streaming of other franchise media too (that currently get very little attention) and SELL LISCENSED MERCHANDISE, that is the most lucrative shit imaginable for zero effort

Honestly, if CR commited to translating all the random twitter and web shorts that shows get that never get translations

that alone would give them some credibility

IIRC Crunchy used to offer a discount on a merch store, it was extremely limited though

their merch store sucks

maybe that's all that normies buy

the Funi owned/bought RightStuf to sell actual weeb shit

and iirc it made up a big part of their bottomline profit

I do think you are right though spooky, I think the biggest "easy" thing they could do is strike a deal with MAL, anilist, etc and just have webhooks with some cross features

I understand Crunchyroll not having 100% of anime but if you have a franchise, get the complete franchise including OVAs and stupid specials