You may wish to begin making ready your self to get kicked off your buddy’s HBO Max account, because the password sharing crackdown is coming.
There’s solely a lot every streaming service can develop as a result of there’s solely so many individuals on the planet, so lately these companies got here up with an annoying little concept: make it so to solely be logged into one family at a time so to’t share your account along with your buddy. It stinks! Netflix does it, Disney Plus has began doing it, and now, whereas talking on the Wells Fargo TMT Summit (by way of Deadline), Warner Bros. Discovery’s CEO and president of worldwide streaming and video games JB Perrette (little bit of a mouthful of a title, there) has shared that HBO will quickly ship out reminders to Max subscribers about password sharing with some “very early, light messaging.”
Perrette went on to clarify, “that is an artwork and a science to attempt to tighten the filter of who’s in there. We’ll begin some early messaging with some individuals who we predict are within the greater tier of utilization. We’ll supply a solution to basically add a member, beginning within the first quarter. We’ll then begin regularly as we get the information and begin determining, with some express and implicit indicators, how good we’re at detecting. After which as we undergo ’25, you’re going to see the filters get tighter and tighter.”
That is clearly fairly annoying, however I suppose the brightside is that HBO has additionally shared some launch home windows for a few of its largest reveals (by way of Deadline). The long-awaited third season of Euphoria is seemingly at the moment concentrating on a 2026 return, with filming set to start early subsequent yr, so you have nonetheless obtained fairly a look forward to that one.
The White Lotus’ third season is coming lots sooner although, fortunately, as that is set to reach in February. Perrette mentioned that Recreation of Thrones spin-off A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is due for a summer time premiere, however HBO and Max Content material CEO and chairman Casey Bloys mentioned it was due for a late 2025 launch earlier this yr, and sources that spoke with Deadline mentioned this nonetheless appears to be the case. And as beforehand talked about, The Final of Us season 2 is on monitor for Q2. So, you may find yourself having to pay extra, however there’s numerous bits coming, a minimum of! Little bit of a comfort prize, although.
