Maybe (HBO) Max Just Isn’t Worth It::Warner Bros. Discovery’s latest earnings call reveals Max shed 700,000 subscribers in the past three months, even as it made money. That might work for Wall Street, but what about viewers?
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Once they fired the old CEO that partnered with Warner Brothers and had a streaming-first mindset, the service has gone way down hill. Most of the new content is dumb shit like syndicated reality shows.
I may tune back in for the occasional series releases like Rightous Gemstones, but then I’m out.
It seems like the interface took a nose dive too. It’s a lot more sluggish and harder to find new things to watch.
The interface absolutely became way worse overnight. You’re right about that.
Geez. I’m glad I cancelled right after the new CEO took over. Fuck that greedy bastard
A different kind of pirate!
There are difficulties with pirating. I had friends over to watch the Singles Inferno 2 finale, but didn’t have Netflix so I torrented it. The download made it to 95% before stalling. The video player on my roku tv would move on to the next episode whenever it encountered a glitch, so it was unwatchable.
I’m sure it works better for good shows, but if you want to watch trash, pirating isn’t as easy as it used to be.
Pirating is way easier than it used to be, you just can’t expect torrents to be grabbed immediately. Modern setups like an *arr stack with a bunch of configured trackers (or even better, usenet) will find basically anything you want, trash included, with enough seeds to avoid stalls. The niche stuff might need to run for a day or two, but it’ll finish.
I’m kinda over paying for it. I really only got it for Jon Oliver and it’s basically free on YouTube so idk. Also on my computer I click on my Max bookmark and it’s like “hey we’re not HBO max anymore! Now it’s just Max! Redirecting you now…”
What? Am I going crazy? What is even the point of that.
Rebranding is a way of indicating that they’ve done something (hopefully worth paying more for) without really doing anything at all. Great way for a new executive to make a non-decision.
They did do something though, dropped a lot of content and added in shitty reality shows. I didn’t renew a few months ago when the price went up and the quality of content went down.
You forgot the large price increase they paired witht he drop in quality content.
I waited for the service to be available in my country for a very long time, now I don’t care 🏴☠️
It never was. I canceled after the end of Game of Thrones and never saw a point in paying their extremely high prices. Just like my house never had HBO growing up, I saw no need to get it now
Honestly I stopped playing video games a few years back and picked it back up during the writes strike. Dropped like $4,000 on a 7800x3d/4090 build. Cancelled all my steaming services , HBO Netflix, all of em, and signed up for game pass instead. I’m done watching stuff on them, if a series comes out I really want to see I’ll grab my wooden leg and eye patch from the back of th closet.
I commend you on taking your own entertainment in your hands, but I also find it ironic that you cancelled your streaming services which cost nowhere near 4 grand. If you drop 50 a month on subscriptions, it would take about 6.6 years to spend 4 grand, but it’s much more complex than that and I totally think that a gaming setup is worth so much more than streaming so I get it.
After 6.6 years of streaming, you will also own absolutely nothing.
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I mean do you really own your steam games either? I have 600 of em so game pass is more for the games I don’t care about “owning” but at the end of the day steam could shut down on 5 years an poof there goes your games. Lol
after 6.6 years the hardware will be almost worthless too, if you plan to resell it to someone else
That machine he built will not be anything close to worthless after 6.6 years. I literally just last week moved my spare 1080 ti into a second gaming computer. It came out in 2017.
I’m getting a strong vibe that people are just jealous so they have to convince themselves it’s not worth it or stupid so they can feel better about not having it themselves.
If you’re wondering why your comment is downvoted despite being a reasonable insight, it’s because any remark in this community that even remotely contradicts a comment endorsing piracy is immediately treated to this hivemind behavior.
It’s anything that challenges an attack on a corporation, imo. If you just point out that a fact they claim is incorrect, even if you ultimately agree, you’ll be attacked as a shill and down voted.
I didn’t downvote it, but I disagree with the overall sentiment that just streaming for 6.6 years has the same value as getting a high end computer. Granted, OP could have saved a lot of money by getting parts a bit less close to the top, but a PC is a tool that can do so much more than 6.6 years of streaming (including that 6.6 years of streaming).
That may be so, but then we are comparing apples and oranges: for $4000, OP can still not stream any content unless they pay more for the services, which sort of defeats the entire argument. After all, they haven’t bought any games yet.
Which brings us to the essence: this comment thread was never here to actually discuss gaming or streaming content. OP didn’t even attempt to shroud the fact that they will continue to enjoy everything as they please by pirating it all.
I mean I might pirate somethi g once a year but you know me better than me
Just shut the fuck up, stupid motherfuckers thinking they understand someone else’s situation is hilarous.
There is no need to be rude. I was simply referring to your own declaration of your intents.
At the end of all those years, you still have a pc.
Correct, a nearly seven year old PC that you never actually played a game on. Except maybe Fortnite.
Lol I have like 600 games on my steam account and I’ve played the majority of them… Idiots just jealous of someone having the money to drop 4k on a computer lol
My point here is that there are ongoing costs for purchasing more entertainment value and it’s not a one-off expense. I am not jealous about how much you have spent on your computer—in fact I think it’s great and hope you get a lot of enjoyment out of it. You have unfortunately completely misinterpreted the essence of what I have written in my comments.
You realize I didn’t build my PC because I stopped watching streaming I built my PC because I wanted to build a new one and get back into gaming. You realize this computer will last years before I need any sort of upgrade? Lmao I swear some people are just so insufferable with their “insights”. I stopped paying for streaming because it’s expensive and there was nothing to watch, now that the writers strike is over I don’t care because I spend my time gaming instead which I actually enjoy more.
It’s an insight because many people can’t drop thousands on top of the line gear. Yes streaming is expensive, but if a family has disposable income, odds are they’re going to go for the lower hanging fruit and just get the streaming package, because the alternative is saving for X months/years for parts that are going to be useful, yes, but also completely wipe out savings.
Well yeah, I’ve watched the new season of Harley Quinn, what else am I waiting around for?
Our Flag Means Death is pretty good.
I don’t know, because all I do is pirate. I used to use Netflix five or six years ago, but it went to shit enough where pirating just became easier again.
Where does one find a decent eBook torrent server. Asking for a friend who reads. He speaks Canadian, you wouldn’t know him.
Does it have to be a torrent server?
Why not use something like https://annas-archive.org/
Most public libraries have OverDrive. While not torrented, you can get lots of ebooks for free! (if there’s a way to “keep” them from overdrive I’m not aware of it)
I am looking for a specific series that has about 40 books, spent about $35 so far at $5 each. Its pulp sci fi from the 60s. They take a couple days to read. I’ll keep paying but noone involved in the original work is seeing a cent of this.
I can’t find them at my library other than three audiobooks.
What series is this?
Dumarest. Studying it as much as reading for enjoyment.
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Amazing site.
Fuck em
When I saw that Blue Beetle was out on physical before streaming, I just went ahead and pulled the plug.
I prefer physical anyway, and if they aren’t streaming the newest content, what’s even the point?
Because it’s a lot cheaper and more convenient?
In the east EU I am paying 4,66EUR monthly for HBO Max service, which we share in 5 households. That is under 1EUR for each household. I will gladly pay that instead of downloading whatever already is on HBO Max.
They’re still fairly cheap in Europe and I really looked forward on getting to see their content a couple of years back, but now it looks like most of it could just as easily be shown on another platform like Disney or Netflix. There’s no real depth in most of it. I’ll keep hanging on watching shows like Insecure, but I wonder whether I’ll keep the account in future.
I’ve subscribed to them once a month each year these past three years, literally only to catch His Dark Materials. Now that that’s over I don’t see what else they have to offer.
