Forum - View topicCrunchyroll Lowers Monthly Price in Almost 100 Territories
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TarsTarkas
 Posts: 5909 Location: Virginia, United States |
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Okay, but did they announce the actual price drops Is is a minor or major price drop?
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Ojamajo LimePie
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Some of the sample listed prices seem to be anywhere from 25% to 33% less. Not too bad. |
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Alphonae
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This is insane. In India, the price has gone down from $10 to less than 2 bucks.
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RommieSG
 Posts: 140 Location: Hokuei High School |
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Either it's a typo, or the Indian catalog isn't large enough to warrant a larger fee. |
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Kaoru G
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The CR catalog of anime available in India isn't worth the $10. Besides SEA has its own distributors and licensers (Muse communications and Media Link). Fans there don't & won't exactly need CR. |
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xaelcry
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It cost like 2.5 bucks in Indonesia now but the problem is that wasn't CR still locking their anime for some SEA region?
It's the reason why most SEA people doesn't give a hell to Crunchy Roll. Bilibili offer a cheaper price (10 bucks more cheaper yearly) and their catalogue is way bigger than CR. |
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tfwnoymir
 Posts: 322 Location: Hungary |
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Not only that, but you're actually being charged in your local currency (finally!), at least where do I live. Knowing how bad the Hungarian Forint is right know, it's a godsend.
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thekingsdinner
 Posts: 1088 Location: Geertruidenberg, Netherlands |
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No Netherlands, huh. Not that 5 euro's a month is a lot, but this country is rapidly getting more expensive, every bit could help :')
Really cool they decided to do this for so many countries though. |
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Blanchimont
 Posts: 3532 Location: Finland |
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Seems no EU countries using euro are included. |
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XSp
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Pretty steep price drop for my region, from 5 USDs to more or less 3 USDs, or 15 bucks in our currency.
I think that the thing that makes most sense in it is taking it to our own currency... the problem with it being 5 bucks is that our currency has devalued a ton over the years, and it has always been unstable and fluctuating too much... so putting a price in our own currency makes it more constant, which will incentivize more people to subscribe to it. Steam also got way more people to buy games here when they started setting prices to our currency instead of USDs. |
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kgw
 Posts: 1138 Location: Spain, EU |
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To some extent: Denmark keep their currency, but it's not included, Lithuania uses the euro, Croatia will do it in January, 2023, Andorra DO use euros, but it is not in the EU. And France's overseas territories also uses the euro and, technically, they are EU territory. San Marino and Lietchestein are not affected, probably due to technical reasons. Maybe I should change my tax residence to Andorra, like some Spanish Youtubers… |
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xaelcry
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The problem is that AAA publishers start avoiding regional pricing which directly affects player behavior to buy indie/A most of the time. As someone who got affected by it, I simply wait for years or just sail seven seas which is rare considering I have way too many backlogs. |
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xxmsxx
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Surprise! CR learns it actually has genuine competition for once 
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Dark Mac
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Crunchyroll and Aniplex are both owned by Sony, so maybe CR's going to start getting all the Aniplex anime in Asia? Which is a lot. Aniplex produces most of the most popular anime. |
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Zalis116
Moderator
 Posts: 6895 Location: Kazune City |
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Hopefully the regional catalog disparities will discourage subscribers in places like the US from spoofing their location to game the system, and subsequently whining about CR being "anti-consumer" when they take steps to prevent that. That's what we saw with Steam when they introduced discounts based on regional and national income levels.
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