Gee, take your pick: you have the bad rebranding, the yanking and cancellation of some of their best shows (seriously, Westworld? You owned it!), cancelling already completed movies (Batgirl) or raising the price and removing 4k as a default among other things.
I thought musk was doing a Speedrun on how to kill a company but didn’t realize he had competition.
David Zazlav has heard your complaints and will replace all the shows he removed with reality shows focused on ruining the lives of poor people. Then you can watch someone’s life fall apart and say, gee I’m glad I’m not that guy! It’s great!
When I was younger I watched hoarders and honey booboo a few times and never liked them, now I know why I didn’t. They’re fucking exploitive as shit. Hey here are people with actual real mental problems who desperately need help. Let’s profit off of that by having the whole country laugh at you!
Pulling venture bros. Only weeks after the movie launches amount how many other animated shows. Why would I stay?
That claimed turned out to be false. HBO came out and set the record straight.
Wait, really? I just watched an episode of season 2 on there yesterday
Yeah it was a false claim all is good.
Oh shit, they made a movie??
Guess add poorly promoting the movie to list.
Yup it wraps everything up after the last season. It’s the “end”.
What?!.. You mean Dr.pimple popper and Ghost Hunters are not being received well on Max?! I’m flabbergasted…
Somebody mentioned Dr. Pimple Popper to me recently and I thought they were making up an over-the-top fake reality show title. Imagine my shock when I found out that it was a real show. There’s a reason I haven’t watched anything aside from sports on network/cable TV in years.
I’m not going to watch that show but man do I find that kind of content weirdly entertaining in 5-10 minute chunks on YouTube.
Which is how she became famous, ironically.
I like watching the earwax guy, it’s oddly satisfying
If it’s well received, then logically it’s better to cancel it so that you can write it off of the sale. If it’s poorly rated it’s worth keeping because it won’t be a worthwhile writeoff
Meta, MAX, X
The 2020s is the decade of shitty rebrands.
The 2020s: A bunch of people finally powerful enough to name things the cool 90s names they dreamt of way back then. Next up JNCO jeans are the mandated corporate uniform.
Google is now called “The Googlinator.”
Microsoft? Its now MEGAsoft
And Amazon is just going to switch to KABLAM!
Facebook is trying to get away from the Facebook papers stink.
So I call them the meta Facebook papers from now on.
Nothing gives a company a harder boner then needlessly rebranding shit. It’s the business equivalent to food corporations putting “NEW AND IMPROVED” on their same old product, while reducing the size of the product.
I hate it.
I work for a southeastern electric company that changed its logo. They have solicited ideas from employees on ways to save money. How about not waste all the time and money on a pointless logo redesign? Dumb.
Seriously. If they didn’t rebrand were people going to choose a different utility company? Lol.
Because you know, there’s soooo many we get to choose from. Should I use the monopoly in my city, or the monopoly in my city?
You could always use the sub-company owned by the monopoly in your city.
‘Change for the heck of it’ gives idiot execs trying to justify their jobs a raging hard-on. It also pleases the idiots trying to maximize profits on something that’s already maximized, as if destroying brand equity will draw in ‘new customers through a fresh new look and image!’
No, it’ll only waste money on failed marketing for your rebrand, confuse existing customers, and make your business look more transient and, as a result, less likely to stand the test of time.
I think the solution is pretty obvious. Rebrand again, and split some of your content to a different service for a different subscription.
Maybe deleting some more shows off the platform and acting like they never existed is a good idea to bring some talent
No, those won’t work. We need proven solutions like increasing executive bonuses!
The rebranding removed categories to watch for specific genres making it harder for people to find stuff. They are trying to make people watch what is on the main screen.
Not surprised.
I’ve had to help more than three relatives over the phone try to fix issues because of this.
A few were arguing with me that they already had the “Max” app installed and didn’t understand that the HBO MAX app isn’t the MAX app.
This was the stupidest fucking renaming ever since that Netflix one a decade ago.
This was the stupidest fucking renaming ever since that Netflix one a decade ago.
No, the Twitter to X renaming is the stupidest fucking renaming ever. Like, in all of human history. Only way they could have topped that would be to rename it to something actively offensive like “Shit Hitler”.
Shit Hitler would have better SEO
I paid for a year subscription for HBO Max last July. I got a full refund when HBO cancelled my subscription in June. Company is run by mentally challenged dip shits. Back to privacy with the extra $150 iny pocket.
I wish they had done that for me! But I did not renew my subscription when it lapsed
They pulled the 4k card. Used to be free-included, now it is an upgrade. REALLY!!
That’s what you get for erasing final space and infinity train
I think the rebranding is just aweful, but I’m still willing to subscribe to the service if it has content. What does it currently have since House of the Dragon and the Last of Us?
I haven’t finished Barry, but I can just buy the last season for $20.
The righteous gemstones is lit. I also wouldn’t have max if I had to pay for it though.
White Lotus, righteous gemstones, and Tokyo Vice are great. Warrior is pretty good too.
I don’t think the White Lotus is for me, but the other two look interesting. I will have to check them out once I subscribe for the 2nd season of HoTD or Last of US, or if another show comes along. I’m currently watching a couple of shows on Hulu atm.
Yea, my partner loved the white lotus but I really didn’t like it. Rich people drama, no interest. I’ll need to watch righteous gemstones though
I’m in Mexico, and both the Roku and Firestick apps stopped working completely because of “we’re currently not available in your region”… which I used to be in, but not anymore, it’s still not working and that was what - two months ago?
“As a valued customer, your call is very important to us. Please stay on the line for our next available operator.”
Yeah, right. Fuck you.
I specifically dropped it because of how stupid the name change is.
Wait, I was looking at Max last night and it appeared that the Discovery content was available in Max. That seems like a fairly obvious explanation
That’s my thought exactly. I paid for discovery before, them immediately canceled when everything I watched there became available on Max, which I get free from my cell service provider.
Lost 2% of subscribers for a, what 10%-20% price hike? Loss of the need to serve 4k to the MAJORITY? Worth it.
