Movies and TV Shows

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.

What?!.. You mean Dr.pimple popper and Ghost Hunters are not being received well on Max?! I'm flabbergasted....

Meta, MAX, X

The 2020s is the decade of shitty rebrands.

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 think the solution is pretty obvious. Rebrand again, and split some of your content to a different service for a different subscription.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I just stopped watching movies and tv shows.

It is always changing software and features, available content and prices. It is exhausting to keep track of it all, I just wat to click play and relax.

Additionally, everything they made is tailored to keep me watching and wanting more, they don't care about quality of content, just manipulation.

Thank you very much, I am not their target audience.

Lost 2% of subscribers for a, what 10%-20% price hike? Loss of the need to serve 4k to the MAJORITY? Worth it.

I’m one of ‘em.

I submitted feedback at the end, and suggest others do as well.

I probably would be one of them, but I paid for a year subscription last November. Once that's up, I'm probably dumping it for some other service, at least until House of Dragon and The Last of Us come back.

HBO MAX was my favorite service when it launched. It's slowly lost good content and added shitty low quality reality shows in their place. It still boggles my mind that a company like Discovery could purchase Warner Brothers.

It is difficult to mess up a brand like HBO. Maybe they managed it.

I cancelled. Their app breaks every other time I try and play something forcing me to restart it. It's trivial but the first few times I thought my brand new TV was shitting the bed, but nope. Only happens on Max. Fuck 'em. If I wanted the shitty Discovery programming I would have signed up for it.

I just wanted HBO. Not HBO plus superheroes. Not HBO plus trashy reality TV. What even is the brand at this point?

When they became HBO Max it was fine, I guess, because all the HBO shows I actually cared about were still there.

But when I load the app and all I see is reality TV, and then they start removing HBO shows I hadn't even gotten around to watching, I decided to cancel and watch Barry before my subscription ran out (great show, not on Blu-ray).

I'll just buy the handful of series I want to follow on Blu-ray instead. WB is good about that. I picked up House of the Dragon on 4K (already watched it but I enjoyed it) and will pick up The Last of Us and probably Chernobyl on 4K at some point.

Bye, HBO. You were a great brand until executives who didn't understand your brand or your demographic decided to mutate you into something else entirely.

Oh, by the way, good luck attracting future talent when the prospect that a series they work hard on might suddenly disappear forever, along with their residual payments, all because an accountant decides it makes the books look better.

For me, this saved money. I get Max for free with my phone bill and having the WB Discovery library rolled in to Max means I don't have to pay the additional services I had used prior to binge trash TV like 90 Day.