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?
Aug 12th is when it goes away. For those wondering https://comicbook.com/anime/news/the-venture-bros-max-removed-adult-swim-streaming-report/
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”.
Wait, really? I just watched an episode of season 2 on there yesterday
Still there till the 12th of Aug. https://comicbook.com/anime/news/the-venture-bros-max-removed-adult-swim-streaming-report/
Yeah it was a false claim all is good.
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.
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.
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
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?
‘Chandr 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.
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 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
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.
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!!
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.
I’m one of ‘em.
I submitted feedback at the end, and suggest others do as well.
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’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 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.
I also subbed for a year and never got a refund. My sub is good through October.
I didn’t either, and I did mention it to customer service because I’ve had so many problems with the thing since it switched. The most aggravating one being that I can’t watch new HBO content on mobile, only tv because I just get a black screen. But old HBO shows work fine, and so does anything not made by them. But all of it worked before they switched to Max. I’ve gone back and forth with them over and over and gotten no explanation and no fix. I’ve tried everything. Besides, I had no idea when I paid for a year of it they were going to suddenly rebrand to being all about reality shows and home remodel shit. So fucking sick of companies pulling shit like this. It’s like we now have to constantly keep from being scammed by the companies we use every day.
You probably got a refund for that sub, I did and I purchased mine around last November
