RightStuff soon to be no more
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Well, it looks like Cruchyroll has decided to close RightStuff and expand their own brand. As of October 10, rightstufanime.com is closing.
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I know international readers rarely gave RS a second look, but as a US reader, RightStuf has been my mainstay for close to a decade, and it sucks to see it close. I already ended my CR subscription years ago because I didn't like the direction they were going, and poor experiences with their store will keep me from trying their integrated store.
I hope the warehouse staff in Iowa aren't laid off, but after assurances that nothing would change after CR bought RS and now this happening, I can only pray for their fortunes.
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This sucks. I still have fond memories of looking over RS's giant mail order catalog (after the adult section was removed) with my sister when we were much younger. Called it the "Big Book of Anime" growing up.
The better strategy would just be to change the name on the site and use it as the Crunchyroll store instead. They've managed to be successful for this long, and people already know to look there.
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It's kind of typical behavior for Sony to merge brands of companies they've acquired and then kill off the brand of the two that had the better reputation. I don't know if they think that'll make people less disappointed when things don't go right "it's because the less favorable brand took over" or a failure to set high expectations to begin with (a lack of "this brand had a good reputation, don't screw it up" mentality)
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My attitude towards them changed after the original ownership change. At that time, I'd had 60-100 items in my watch list, pretty much adding everything as it was posted. I also stopped mentioning them here as a source.
The first announcement cancelled all "adult" stuff, That was kind of understandable. I wonder if the separate site they set up to handle that stuff still exists?
Then I cut back when the "intermittency" of shipping hit, and started only ordering stuff when it was marked as "in stock", rather than "released but on backorder".
Today, I cleared everything off my list that wasn't in stock today. Fortunately, that included the third AoaB fanbook and a few other "releasing soon" titles. (That's one of the big things I liked about RS... Getting things when they were on the shelf, even if they weren't scheduled to be released for a bit.)
Ah, well. Guess I have to re-check some of the other vendors again. I have no idea (yet) how things are going to change with CR's name attached. It's likely it will no longer be priced as an individual vendor, since they'll be "Official Crunchyroll!" now.
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I have been a Rightstuf user for years. I have also had only dissapointing interactions with CR and decided to quit using them a few years ago.
I really hate when corpos burn down good things just to make a single penny.
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@SomeOldGuy said in RightStuff soon to be no more:
My attitude towards them changed after the original ownership change. At that time, I'd had 60-100 items in my watch list, pretty much adding everything as it was posted. I also stopped mentioning them here as a source.
The first big reputation hit for me was when they started pushing ‘shipping insurance’ on every sale - and then when I actually needed to use it, when a blu-ray case got fractured in shipping, they really didn’t want to replace it, and I had to make a fuss.
The first announcement cancelled all "adult" stuff, That was kind of understandable. I wonder if the separate site they set up to handle that stuff still exists?
Yeah, that was a worrying moment, but as you say, understandable.
Then I cut back when the "intermittency" of shipping hit, and started only ordering stuff when it was marked as "in stock", rather than "released but on backorder".
…oh boy, that’s wonderful. X.x I hadn’t even noticed, because my orders with them had dropped way down.
Today, I cleared everything off my list that wasn't in stock today. Fortunately, that included the third AoaB fanbook and a few other "releasing soon" titles. (That's one of the big things I liked about RS... Getting things when they were on the shelf, even if they weren't scheduled to be released for a bit.)
For me, it’s going to be checking all the Nozomi series they have licensed themselves, and see if there’s anything I can’t live without and grab while there’s a chance. (This really sucks. Their releases of old-school anime - Tylor, Dirty Pair, Utena, Nadesico, etc. - set quality standards at the time, and even now they were one of the best.)
