A thread for celebrating the death of Anime Strike

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are you glad that anime strike is gone?
	yeah
	heck yeah
	don't care, i just used torrents for their exclusives
	it is a tragedy because i was dumb enough to pay for it

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psyer: Mar 26, 2013

tsob posted:

I dunno how Amazon Prime works in other territories, but Amazon Prime in mine at least is basically just some Amazon exclusive content and then if you want any of their other content it's locked behind a second subscription. So you have the actual Amazon Prime content, but then a lot of other stuff is only included if you get a HBO subscription through Amazon Prime. Or a Starz one. Or whatever. Amazon uses double pay a lot I notice. Their Audible service is the same. Subscription gets you 1 to 3 free credits a month, which can be used to buy any book for 1 credit apiece but if you use up your credits then any further books are just offered at a slight discount. Fortunately, they do a daily deal, which usually discounts something to about $2 or $3 (or equivalent in ��s), and they have some good stuff at least once or twice a week on average. I'm pretty sure Comixology does something similar too, though I don't use it so I can't recall off hand. Which is disappointing, since subscription giving you unlimited access to their library of content for as long as you're subscribed would obviously be much more satisfying and is the model I've come to expect from online content producers.

Fake Edit: Or at least, that was what I intended to say on it's own until I went to the Amazon Prime site on my laptop to double check which subscriptions they were advertising and now all of that stuff is gone. Which, I'm not sure if Amazon made a change in the last 24 hours since I last looked at it on my Playstation instead of my laptop or if logging in on my laptop for once and being asked to set some preferences when doing so made some massive change. Regardless of that, their anime offerings here are still pretty awful and it's mostly just the various Pokemon shows and a couple of older things like "Swiss Family Robinson". All the really good recent stuff like "Land of Lustrous", "Princess Principle" and "Made in Abyss" isn't available, so I can't even use it to see them legally.

Anime Strike was a US only thing that was under a paywall after having Amazon Prime. Most of the content were licensed by Sentai in the US and they were using Amazon to distribute the episodes. Starting this season, either the agreement between Sentai and Amazon are over or Sentai just decided to stop using them and started using HiDive. For "Land of Lustrous", "Princess Principle" and "Made in Abyss", they were licensed by Sentai in the US and is on Amazon in the US. Worldwide, they are probably on HiDive.

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psyer: Mar 26, 2013

Fabricated posted:

Also Amazon videos player sucks rear end

Amazon probably has the best video quality out of the streaming services in U.S. Netflix is not that good except 4k content. Crunchyroll has not improved since like 2012. HiDive is just straight up garbage.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2018 21:05

psyer: Mar 26, 2013

Wark Say posted:

You know, I don't dismiss these posts or anything, but given the article linked by renowned goon (and undeniable good boy ) an actual dog, I'm thinking that spending just because you can is not the solution.

I do find that last paragraph a bit less than favorable, though:

From what I read around, Amazon Japan is still licensing exclusive for anime. Whether those will come to the US or just be a Japan only exclusive is something that will revealed in the future.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2018 22:52

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