So I’m trying to watch the Japanese film “First Love” and it tells me I need to upgrade to Viki Plus. And I’m thinking that’s perfectly fine with me. On the news a few months ago where Viki had lost some kind of lawsuit about privacy or something, I thought it was a little ridiculous (though I was not in the courtroom,) and hoped it would not cause hardship for the company - and had thought even then that I should upgrade just to do what I can to help out. But this movie has some of my fave actors in it, so…
I go to My Account and click Subscriptions and then Change Plan, and there’s only one (1) plan that’s shown on the page: Viki Pass, which is the bottom-tier subscription I already have. So I click on “Show all plans” and… just the one option shows up, Viki Pass. Nothing else.
What’s going on with this? I would think it would be in Viki’s best interest to allow customers who want to upgrade… the opportunity to upgrade. Veddy, veddy odd, keptin.
I can only assume there’s some weird licensing thing that blocks them from offering it here? (“Here” in my case is the Los Angeles, CA region.) Has anybody else come up against this brick wall? Can anybody from Rakuten/Viki shed some light on this?
As I’ve said many times, given the quality of programming here, while I can’t speak for anyone else I’d be happy to pay five times the current subscription rate for even a small bump in available programming, especially if it’s Japanese drama series and movies. $5 USD is half a beer at the airport. I would have zero problem buying an upgraded subscription but… only one (1) is available, the basic Viki Pass membership.
