• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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.

    • lordnikon@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      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.

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        3 months ago

        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

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          3 months ago

          Give it a watch. I binged the entire show in 2-3 days when I had COVID a couple months ago

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      3 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

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    3 months ago

    I think I only call it Max instead of HBO or HBO Max less than 25% of the time. This rebrand was goofy. Still not as bad as Twitter’s.

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      3 months ago

      Twitter’s was so bad people went from ‘X (formerly Twitter)’ to :what used to be called twitter’ all the way back to just twitter without the company doing anything after the rebrand.

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      3 months ago

      I’ve just always defaulted to HBO, especially considering much of their older content still has HBO pop up as a credit.

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          3 months ago

          Yeah I’ll be honest I’m way too lazy to keep up with their rebranding attempts, that’s where keeping it mentally filed as HBO made the most sense as it grew out of the premium cable channel from the 80s.

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    3 months ago

    I wonder if they looked at the data for how people find the website, I’d find it by googling “hbo login”

    • dantheclamman@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 months ago

      I suspect the competent people knew all along. I wonder if the name was changed because of internal politics in the company against HBO. They changed the name when they were gutting a lot of HBO’s leadership

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    3 months ago

    Inb4 it turns just to HBO and then a nameless entity. It has no name. It just exists. Like death.

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    3 months ago

    Please use a cw. I almost died laughing.

    Damn, these companies are running around like headless chickens.

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    3 months ago

    polygon about to be slop too https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/05/gaming-news-site-polygon-gutted-by-massive-layoffs-amid-sale-to-valnet/

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    3 months ago

    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.

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      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.

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      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.

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      3 months ago

      Seems like at about 5000 employees is when HR becomes the thing that drives so many decisions that don’t matter. And from there it’s all downhill.

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    3 months ago

    They canceled all the good shows and replaced them with “reality” tv slop. No one gives a fuck what you call a trash fire, it is still a trash fire.