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.
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.
Number must go up. Forever and ever.
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.
Can’t wait for everyone to call it “HBO Max, formerly known as HBO Max”.
The channel formerly formerly known as HBO MAX.
The channel currently and formerly known as HBO Max
The channel currently and formerly known as HBO Max and formerly not known as HBO Max
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.
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
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 had a survey from them where I answered that dropping HBO from their branding was the second stupidest fucking decision they’ve made since Zaslav became CEO. Second only to removing legacy content and canning complete movies for tax purposes. That was maybe a month and change ago.
Nice. You did it!!!
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That last part has never been a part of the HBO business model.
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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.
Trash Fire MAX
Inb4 it turns just to HBO and then a nameless entity. It has no name. It just exists. Like death.
The streaming service formerly known as…
A streaming service has no name.
smack
That’s the Disney Channel (death of a career)
Everybody’s been calling it HBO the entire god damned time!
If they really want customers back
- Finish Westworld (they had one season left) and put it back on the service
- Release the Batgirl movie
- Release the Cyote movie (though I think they actually sold this one)
- Bring back all the adult swim/cartoon network content they axed
Justice for infinity train. I want zaslavs head
More westworld yes please
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.
I’ve just always defaulted to HBO, especially considering much of their older content still has HBO pop up as a credit.
There was HBO Go and HBO Now before HBO Max. Also just HBO via television. Truly a hell scape.
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.
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.
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
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 original change dropping HBO was one of the stupidest branding changes I’ve ever seen (and there’s a lot of competition). To be honest, they’d be better off dropping the Max part instead.
Ah, I almost forgot it was officially called Max, they kept the brand ‘HBO Max’ here. During the rebrand they found out we already had a public broadcaster called ‘Omroep MAX’, which is often shortened to just MAX in the names of their programs. Trying to claim that name would probably have not gone well for HBO.
