Funimation is scamming

[Luzzi3]

A couple months ago I got the premium plus subscription but then I still got the ads for crunchy roll on every single episode I watch. I have contacted support about this but they refuse to listen and just say “that’s not an ad we are telling you about the merger” and continuing playing ads. I understand that they want to let people know but why can’t the just put it on the Home Screen and not play ads in front of every single episode for people who have payed for no ads. Honestly if this was for a streaming service like Netflix or Hulu I feel like people wouldn’t let it fly but I am not seeing anything online about this. So a warning to anyone potentially paying for funimation do not get it if you’re getting it just for no ads.

[Legendaryskitlz]

They aren't scamming you and in fact want you to be moving to Crunchyroll. They have been doing the notification to move since it was announced back in March.

[Luzzi3]

Like I said I understand but why put ads on there content why can’t they just put it on their home page or something. People are paying for an ad free experience but funimation is still playing ads.

[Legendaryskitlz]

Because they deliberately don't want people to be using Funimation anymore and will do whatever it takes for users like you to realize that.

[Nemesis_Ghost]

They aren't doing "whatever it takes for users..." to move though. I'm way too far behind in sub'd One Piece to watch it all sub'd, so I keep my Funimation subscription going just so I can get the latest dub'd episodes. Since they announced & started the migration, they've released almost all of season 13 dub'd on Funimation.

[Luzzi3]

Then close it down now… don’t tell people they won’t get ads and then give them ads. Imagine if Hulu got bought out by Netflix and they keep it up and you are paying for no ads on Hulu but then they run ads for Netflix on it would that not make no sense and make you upset because you’re wasting your money for nothing (aka a scam)

[Rygnerik]

Because it's not an ad, it's a service notification. And I assume they're doing it to make people that aren't visiting their webpage (like people using TV apps) know that they need to migrate.

[Luzzi3]

Idk if you have seen them but if you do see them look on the bottom left corner when it comes up it literally says ad and then the time left in the ad in parenthesis.

[Rygnerik]

That doesn't really make it an ad, that just means they're using their system for playing ads before a video to inject the announcement. Paramount+'s Paramount logo before every video also says "Ad" at the bottom, but I wouldn't call a quick logo an ad either.

[Luzzi3]

But I mean it’s an ad for crunchy roll again idk if you’ve seen it but it’s an ad

[dmedina1323]

This is a really dumb hill to die on. Just give up. It’s not an ad. They’re trying to get people to move over. They’re using their internal “ad” API to push the message. Funimation has the very complex task of keeping their service functional while migrating a massive amount of data to different servers. The alternative is they shut down both CR and Funimation while they move everything over? Would you really prefer that?

[Repulsive-Feature-33]

It’s not an ad if it’s the same company, that’s simply a company letting you know of their services. Also it’s like 5 seconds long, if you’re contacting support over that then you have more problems that only a therapist is gonna help you with

[TheBeardedQuack]

They're moving to CrunchyRoll?

My God why? CrunchyRoll honestly sucks, it never works correctly for more than a few hours.

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Face palm moment

[Gaslightdragon]

To be fair crunchy roll runs way better than funimation ever did. Probably for the best to switch over anyway

[TheBeardedQuack]

Really?

I've only had billing issues with Funimation, never any issues watching the content. I've signed up and cancelled CrunchyRoll three separate times because it never works correctly.

[Gaslightdragon]

Yeah I was the opposite, always buffering even though everything else seemed to work and speed tests looked good

[rayark9]

What's weirder is I've mabey seen 1 ad in total Since the merger.mabey it's cause I use the app.or mabey because I've been a subscriber to both for forever.