Followers have been anxiously ready for the premiere of the “Recreation of Thrones” prequel “Home of the Dragon” on Sunday night — however some viewers have been in for an infuriating evening when the much-anticipated 10-episode sequence lastly dropped after months of hype.
So many followers have been making an attempt to stream the present concurrently that HBO Max truly crashed. This led to hundreds of customers not with the ability to watch the primary episode.
Many subscribers reportedly fell sufferer to the streamer’s app tapering off, with the web site outage service DownDetector reporting that there have been about 3,000 blackouts between 8:40 p.m. and 9:25 p.m. EDT.
In an announcement to The Publish, HBO mentioned the crash solely affected a “small portion of customers.”
“‘Home of the Dragon’ was efficiently seen by thousands and thousands of HBO Max subscribers final evening,” the rep mentioned. “A small portion of customers trying to attach through Hearth TV gadgets had points and we labored immediately with impacted customers to get them into the platform.”
As per common, the followers took to social media solely to precise their frustrations over technical points — and rapidly found others have been additionally having issues: “The positioning crashed… @hbomax,” one posted on the corporate’s Twitter account.
The streaming service then responded: “Hello Leah, We’re conscious some customers could also be encountering points in the mean time. Please attempt closing the app and restarting to see if this helps. Attain again out straight away when you nonetheless have bother. Thanks!”
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The corporate’s account additionally joked in regards to the downfall, writing: “The one factor that might tear down the Home of the Dragon was itself. #HOTD.”
“Home of the Dragon” takes place 200 years earlier than the occasions of “Recreation of Thrones” and tells the story of Home Targaryen.
Paddy Considine, Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, Emma D’Arcy, Steve Toussaint, Rhys Ifans and Milly Alcock star within the fantasy drama.
“Think about actually paying for hbo max only for it to crash as quickly has [‘House of the Dragon’] comes out my dad is on the verge of a breakdown,” one other viewer scribed.
One pissed off fan whined: “I’m actually on the verge of shedding it over this hbo max crash.”
One individual famous, “About 25 minutes in to making an attempt to observe #HouseoftheDragon solely to have my HBO Max repeatedly crash after exhibiting me the promo about all of the ‘groundbreaking new originals’ they've coming. Not likely an important gross sales pitch.”
A fan added a meme of Patrick Star from “SpongeBob SquarePants” doing a yoga pose as they tweeted: “Mentally getting ready myself trigger I do know the HBO Max app gonna crash for the primary quarter-hour.”
Others merely threatened to cancel their subscription due to the outage. “Eliminating HBO Max. This crash is simply an excessive amount of,” one chimed in.
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