Crunchyroll is total garbage

Crunchyroll is garbage.

As in title. If anyone wants to start using crunchyroll i highly advise not to do.

I AM a seaman. I cannot afford cellular data so I decided to download at home plenty animes. Then problems started

Every few days episodes got expire. They take infinity to renew Access and here is the joke. To renew 30gb of episodes, crunchyroll consumes about 3gb of data. Wtf?! What's the point????

Today I was in port and was reneving episodes and guess what.

All my downloaded animes are "error API-1000010 - check your internet connection" for offline episodes to check internet connection?! Ok i switch on satelite internet which is expensive and still coudnt watch any single episode on crunchyroll. I immediately cancel my subscription and gonna stay on anime downloaded from torrents. Legal way is not possible.

And customer service? All they know is "uninstall app and install again". Ye thanks but i gonna lose all my downloaded stuff.

Screw You crunchyroll devs, You are trash

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Commentaires

Rulligan2025-12-25 01:19

Cool.

weirdowerdo2025-12-25 01:20

I mean... Most people aren't at sea for long periods of time and generally have no need to download their episodes to watch at a later date.

PsotaZ2025-12-25 01:21

So what's the point of "Megafan" subscription
I Pay more just to watch offline, which i cannot anyway.

This app is trash

weirdowerdo2025-12-25 01:23

To allow it within short periods of time. Not keep your episodes forever. That's a licensing and copyright issue. Not a developer issue.

PsotaZ2025-12-25 01:27

That's not forever. 3 months is not such a long period

weirdowerdo2025-12-25 01:28

3 months is a long period, literally a quarter of a year. No licensing agreement allows that with any streaming platform that I know of.

PsotaZ2025-12-25 01:29

Except Netflix, Prime, Disney etc

weirdowerdo2025-12-25 01:33

Netflix has expiration dates for downloaded movies or series. Prime Idk, doesnt exist in my country. Disney OWNS pretty much all their content.

As I said, its a licensing issues. When you own it, they can do whatever they goddamn please such as Disney. Netflix doesnt own most of their content however and license it which limits what they can do with that content. Same goes for Crunchyroll, they dont own most of the anime, they simply license it to stream it elsewhere and are limited in what they are allowed to do with it by the actual owner.

PsotaZ2025-12-25 01:34

Crunchyroll Has expiration aswell, its not an issue. The issue i described is how buggy is the application

Extreme-Sun-59932025-12-25 01:59

well i assume it would be buggy because you're at sea for 3 months which is indeed a long time

N7CombatWombat2025-12-25 02:01

To be fair, the app gets a lot of complaints, and I doubt all of them are sailors.

N7CombatWombat2025-12-25 01:37

I'm not saying you're wrong, I've seen a lot of bullshit in business in general, but do you have any sources for that being a common aspect of streaming licensing agreements? I'd love to look into it, it's not a factor I've ever heard of since the advent of streaming services.

weirdowerdo2025-12-25 01:46

Exactly how *common* it is, I dont know. But it has always been a thing as far as netflix has been around and offered the service to download and been discussed on forums for the past decade. [Even on reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/netflix/s/zq5C0E1uvq). [Amazon staff do cite it as a reason for those expiration dates](https://uk.amazonforum.com/s/question/0D5at00000Ug2AhCAJ/why-do-movies-i-have-purchased-not-rented-show-download-expired)

>Please note, some content owners place restrictions on the time period you can access downloaded video titles without an active Internet connection. The time period that you have to view a downloaded video while your compatible mobile device is offline varies by title.

N7CombatWombat2025-12-25 01:53

I mean, I'm sure it happens, and/or has happened, but that kind of language is common in TOS's and EULA's to cover as many bases as possible, but it doesn't mean it's a regularly seen reason in the streaming industry, and CR has the same limit for every title, which sounds more like a CR thing and not a licensor thing since they license from more than one distributor, could even be a Sony thing over a licensor.

brokenaway12025-12-25 01:41

disney is a shit example for this case when they own the things they have lol

N7CombatWombat2025-12-25 01:31

There is zero reason beyond greed for a licensing agreement to have a time limit on a downloaded copy beyond the time limit the show is licensed for when said copy is designed to work on the services own app. The show goes away when the license expires on the service, it can go away from an accounts download too.

weirdowerdo2025-12-25 01:36

And yet, they still do have that... Which is why these expiration dates for downloaded content exists in the first place for any streaming platform licensing series or movies or anything else. Im merely explaining the reality as it is today, right now.

timpkmn892025-12-25 01:45

But it's only a monthly subscription

PsotaZ2025-12-25 01:57

But You connect your card and its as long as You pay for it?

N7CombatWombat2025-12-25 01:24

The point is to get you to spend more money. They've got shareholders/investors and executives to make rich. I guarantee no one at CR even considered that people who spend lots of time at sea are a group to bother catering to.

abandoned_idol2025-12-25 02:41

Their monetization relies on ignorance, and their model works amazingly.

Both-Variation21222025-12-25 01:22

But why offer download option if they outright remove them after couple days, not just block for reverification?

weirdowerdo2025-12-25 01:27

You dont own the content, and Crunchyroll most likely doesnt either. Reverification systems could easily be bypassed. But Crunchyroll most likely has a licensing agreement that limits how long you can have those episodes downloaded. Just like any other streaming platform does.

808Kuro2025-12-25 01:47

You’re not subscribing to Crunchyroll to own the anime. You’re subscribing to use their servers that they host anime on. As in, you can’t download them for an indefinite period of time because you don’t own it. It’s different from if you would buy it from iTunes, where you actually own it in that scenario

LimezSSB2025-12-25 01:33

Crunchy roll is still dog shit and always has been lol

N7CombatWombat2025-12-25 02:03

It feels like it really started picking up speed circling the drain after Sony acquired them and shut down Funimation.

theshinycelebi2025-12-25 03:01

probably the dumbest response to an actual valid complaint. what does this reply even achieve?

Sluaghlock2025-12-25 01:21

haha seaman

Shot-Membership-40702025-12-25 01:22

lmao you got valid points

Silcaria2025-12-25 01:31

Water is wet, like the sea you sail on.

Throwaway9193192025-12-25 01:37

Aye aye, captain

Extreme-Sun-59932025-12-25 02:00

but water isnt wet...

CrimsonGear802025-12-25 02:08

Let me show you my submarine. It’s long, hard, and full of seamen!

IntrospectiveMT2025-12-25 03:00

If anyone can pirate without condemnation, it’d be one who stays at sea.

The worst thing about crunchy is the reviews. The most dog water show will have a 4.7 rating.

ududbsisysveiudvdid2025-12-25 03:13

> And customer service?

Has there ever been a company that has had really good customer service? Usually, the first level of support is supposed to effectively assume that you are wrong without saying it (even if you are right) to take the burden off of the resources of the company. There’s usually multiple hoops before the type of support request you are asking reaches the product and dev team. And spoiler, those bugs or gaps likely aren’t going to be prioritized on their backlog because they’re probably already drowning in it.

So when you say:

> Screw You crunchyroll devs, You are trash

Who are you to know what those devs are dealing with. Say that the product is trash, but don’t assume that the devs are trash.

UnhappyComparison9372025-12-25 03:56

honestly if you a seaman might as well become a pirate also

PikminPlayer52025-12-25 05:52

I use HIDIVE instead although I miss Funimation

Countless-Alts152025-12-25 11:25

CR has been ass for years. Sorry to hear your troubles out there.

Ever since they got rid of trial memberships for premium passes & no more forum, episode comments. All down hill from there

Independent-Peak83112026-01-18 07:11

I can't say that I can completely relate to a lot of the issues you're having with the app, but I can definitely say that my biggest issues boil down to this:

1. $15/month subscription to have an app that will play 1-2 episodes of a series before it crashes. It didn't use to do that. I can't even sit down during a lunch break most of the time and not have the app crash on me forcing me to go all the way back and manually fix my settings again.

2. $15/month subscription to have an app completely get rid of the commenting interface that not only provided insight into the show I'm watching from other users, but also provided a little extra entertainment on the side from users who enjoy the shows I enjoy. You had it for years, suddenly it's gone. Did you guys get tired of filtering all of the negative comments being made about the declining quality of your app instead of, I dont know, trying to improve these problems instead?!

3. $15/month subscription to have an app that buffers at the most random times, even when I am 3 feet away from my router at home, for no apparent reason and almost always during the climax of an episode.

4. $15/month subscription for poor connectivity when streaming from my phone to another device, like the television in my living room where my router is located. I can have perfect Wi-fi using any other device/application but the moment I try to stream it buffers, loses the quality of the picture at random times or fails to connect at all.

So, yeah, maybe I'm the moron who still pays for a subscription to this app to avoid pirating it from somewhere else for free and risking viruses and non-stop pr0n ads, but wow, every month that goes by it gets harder and harder to justify paying what I pay for this app.
The ONLY thing that keeps me there is the vast library, but even then, the app itself is getting less and less user friendly as time goes on in that regard too.

Do better Crunchyroll. Seriously.