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NEWS: Funimation App Shuts Down on April 2 as Its Accounts Merge With Crunchyroll

So I have a Funimation account but not a crunchyroll account, from what I am reading or seeing that if I create a crunchyroll account with all of the same credentials that I used to make my Funimation account I can merge the two accounts together to where they will only be the one crunchyroll account and my entire queue and everything will stay close to the same right? I am trying to get some clarification before I go forward and create a account on crunchyroll, I had a feeling that this was going to happen sooner or later but I was kinda hoping that the people at Funimation would have sent something to people to transfer all account's from there site to a crunchyroll site unless that is what this is supposed to be but you have to create the crunchyroll account before you can link/transfer your account from the Funimation site. So if anyone can give me some more information that would be great thanks in advance.

Titles that're over 10 years old, like Rosario+Vampire, predate Funi's simulcasting system. So if they made it to CR, the only version Funi had would be the home-video masters.

IIRC, Funimation’s concept of a “digital copy” wasn’t a download like you typically get from major studio movies, right? It was more that you’d have the ability to stream that one title from funimation.com, even if you didn’t otherwise subscribe to Funimation’s streaming service. Still an awful way to treat customers, of course.

Lord_of_Geo wrote:

So I have a Funimation account but not a crunchyroll account, from what I am reading or seeing that if I create a crunchyroll account with all of the same credentials that I used to make my Funimation account I can merge the two accounts together to where they will only be the one crunchyroll account and my entire queue and everything will stay close to the same right? I am trying to get some clarification before I go forward and create a account on crunchyroll, I had a feeling that this was going to happen sooner or later but I was kinda hoping that the people at Funimation would have sent something to people to transfer all account's from there site to a crunchyroll site unless that is what this is supposed to be but you have to create the crunchyroll account before you can link/transfer your account from the Funimation site. So if anyone can give me some more information that would be great thanks in advance.

If you have accounts using the same e-mail address then the two should be merged together without any problems... but it should be pointed out that Crunchyroll said the exact same thing in regards to Right Stuf & the Crunchyroll Store. CR has been so bad at merging those accounts together that Nozomi actually had to apologize for assuming that it was already done for one of their Dirty Pair Kickstarter updates, and even now I don't think much of anything has been done about those account mergers.
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It's astounding how every single thing the Crunchyroll brand has bought/absorbed/steamrolled has become objectively worse. If they were actively trying to screw over customers and nothing else, they couldn't have asked for better results.

Outlaw Star (sub/dub)

Also, this whole thing just proves again that torrenting is the superior customer experience.

Have you seen CR price gouging starting next year? From 54.99$ per year to $99.99 per year? That's almost twice as expensive!

It's truly a testament to capitalism how in less than 20 years you can go from being a pirate site to being such a dominant force in the industry that you can just kill your closest competitor, double your prices, and nobody else can do anything about it.

I also won't be surprised if in another few months Crunchyroll joins the rest of the streaming apps in offering a cheaper plan that comes with annoying ads.