Rakuten VikiReviews of viki.com

Been a paying customer for viki for years. Now they ask for more money and hide new and older dramas behind the paywall, but don't add anything more in return. Subbers are slow and they use the fact that subbers are volunteers as an excuse for not having subs done on time. Apparently subs are NOT included for what you are paying for and we all are paying to watch episodes earlier without ads but can't understand a word of it. Cancelled my subscription.

I signed up for their paid subscription/pass of $49.99 per year. This subscription was supposed to allow access to ALL their programs with no ads. A few months later I was having difficulty accessing some of their programs. I thought they were having technical issues (they were never very stable). I then learned they introduced another level of subscription for double the price and restricted some of their contents. Their excuse is that they've partnered with another content provider and now I will have to pay double if I want to access those programs. The worse part is all their new programs seem to be from this content provider. This is highly UNETHICAL, if not illegal.