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[–] Pronell@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

HBO MAX is full of crap I never wanted to see and is missing swathes of the actual HBO catalog.

It's not even worth what they're charging.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Keep going David, I'm sure the next rebrand will rake in the big bucks.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If not, just one more rebrand after that right?

[–] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

That's the rebrand where it goes back to HBO Max again

[–] radix@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oddly enough, anyone who knows who he is thinks Zaslav is "way overpaid."

[–] marighost@piefed.social 14 points 1 week ago

Cancelled my subscription earlier this year. I found other means of watching their shows. 🏴‍☠️

[–] EveningPancakes@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey David, I think my current budget is too tight to afford the current price.

That said, I still have free HBO through my AT&T internet, despite moving 3 months ago and being told I would lose access as that promotion nis longer being offered.

For the past year we've been jumping around subscription services, only paying for one at a time while we watch whatever it is we're looking to catch up on.

Also, building up a Jellyfish library on the side.

Exactly this. Netflix was made successful because it was so cheap people could forget about it. 8 a month? Could pay for 5 years and never notice it. Raising prices makes people notice how expensive it is, and people start rotating subscriptions. If HBOs price was lower they'd get a lot more subscribers, most would forget, and they'd have long running revenue. But I'm sure he's way smarter than us and went to business school