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Nice. You did it!!!
idiots
I don’t think anybody referred to it as Max anyway. Such a generic lame name.
Example of products that could be named Max:
- power tools
- protein supplements
- engine oil
- gas chambers
- People
Last time I checked people weren’t products but ok
Check again
I’ll never remember this new one
This is bullshit.
I demand HBO Maxine.
How long until it goes back to just being HBO?
I’d say 7,5 Mooches
it will be HBO MAX +, or hbo max pro+ next.
“HBO Go Max Now +” as it’s final shriek into the void before finally just returning to “HBO” 🤣
Somehow HBO Max returned.
polygon about to be slop too https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/05/gaming-news-site-polygon-gutted-by-massive-layoffs-amid-sale-to-valnet/
Yes it’s awful
What a ride
I didn’t know they renamed it
Are they gonna bring back all the quality content they removed to replace it with reality TV?
Because that’s what’s dropping subscribers, no one cares about the name.
I agree with this statement but have to add The Pitt has been some of the best television I have seen in a few years. So i have hope that is the case.
I hate to say it, but I’ve been seeing those stupid banner ads while watching South Park and the premise at the very least seems interesting for The Pitt, I know absolutely nothing else though
Give it a watch. I binged the entire show in 2-3 days when I had COVID a couple months ago
They also removed 4k from the standard package while continuing to boost prices multiple times, and also filling it with sports I have no interest in. Combined with the fact the app continued to run awfully on Android TV, it made it a really easy decision to cancel
This might be the funniest shit I’ve read.
Please use a cw. I almost died laughing.
Damn, these companies are running around like headless chickens.
We should laugh at David Zaslav every chance we can
Companies that reach a certain critical mass really truly become incompetent. I don’t mean just evil or profit first, I mean simply incompetent at the most basic aspects of running a business. There are marketing departments that behave as if the entire team is composed of interns frantically googling marketing slang.
Warner Bros, Hasbro, Apple, they’re carried by the inertia of their gigantic size and the customers that were alive to have moulded their vision about the company during their good years.
Marketing people, and business types in general, are either fucking retarded, have a personality disorder, or both.
Or they just want to pay their bills like everyone else
They don’t even need to reach critical mass. The last place I was at was a shitshow held together by a handful of overachievers. At every level there were idiots making decisions and protecting friendly mouth-breathers. And when we would contact the Big Players in the industry, it was much the same on their end. It got to the point where I had to remind people that just because you’re calling Big Name Brand, the person you’re talking to is you. And they report to Dave (the know-nothing manager we all worked under). Nobody has a fucking clue. So cut the person on the other end of the line some slack.
Number must go up. Forever and ever.
Companies that reach a certain critical mass really truly become incompetent
It’s by design.
The guy who creates a game studio to make his own game understands everything about making it.
The AAA studio that buys them out kinda understands games but care more about profit than any individual IP, so the game suffers.
The giant corporation that buys the AAA studio doesn’t give a fuck about games in general because it’s a small slice of a giant pie. They use the CEO position there as a training spot for executives that don’t understand anything about games.
It applies to any industry, but no one can out bid the giant corporations and they have to keep buying stuff up to maintain profit increases.
Eventually they’ll cannabilze everything till there’s 2-3 options then eventually just one.
HBO was the better name. And even Cinemax is a better name than Max.
I kept calling it HBO Max after the first change.
Most CEOs of entertainment companies are just people with business degrees who wish they were creative, but just aren’t.
HBO objected to HBO Max, so it was rebranded to Max. Now the top HBO execs have left so they’re changing it back.
Ah. I see. Guess I assumed they were part of the same company. Thanks.
They’re different divisions of WBD. HBO is a premium cable channel that focuses on high-end productions, while Max is a general streaming service.
The problem is they don’t ever stop paying the marketing team. Eventually you don’t need more marketing and yet. Gestures around. Just hire a PR team for fucks sake.
