Following the influx of legions to broadcast the long-awaited premiere episode of ‘House of the Dragon’Some users witnessed a blackout on the HBO Max portal.
On Sunday night, the HBO Max app became unavailable to some users in the US after a large number of viewers flocked to the portal to watch the series’ launch episode. ‘Game of Thrones’ prequel
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While the first installment in the series was watched by millions of HBO subscribers last night, at least 3,000 outages were reported by American fans of the fantasy drama. Several disappointed users of the streaming portal took to Twitter with their complaints about not being able to see the long-awaited premiere of the show, in order to witness the return of the Targaryen family after almost three years.
It would be even better if the app didn’t crash as soon as I tried to view it. Everything else in the app works fine except House of the Dragon. Looking at Amazon Fire Stick and it has already restarted several times
— Jeremy Wojtecki (@jwojPAC) August 22, 2022
House of the Dragons keeps crashing the HBO MAX app on Fire TV. Other programs do not block the application. What’s going on? I cleared the cache, restarted, killed/reloaded the app. Nothing works.
— lgbeddow (@lgbeddow) August 22, 2022
the site crashed… be fr @hbomax
— leah (@LeahsArchive) August 22, 2022
However, in an official statement from HBO, the spokesperson reported that the failure was not on their part, but rather a failure of Amazon devices that resulted in the blocking for their users.
The representative stated: “house of the dragon is being successfully watched by millions of HBO Max subscribers tonight.”
“We are aware that a small portion of users trying to connect through Fire TV devices are experiencing issues and are in the process of resolving issues for affected users.”
The show, set 200 years before the events of the novel series. ‘A song of ice and fire’ by George RR Martin began airing Sunday, August 21 on HBO Max.
George RR Martin has co-written the show with Ryan Condal, while Miguel Sapochnik, Greg Yaitanes, Clare Kilner and Geeta Vasant Patel are directing.
Actress Emma D’Arcy plays the lead role of Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen in the web series. Other cast members include Paddy Considine, Olivia Cooke, Matt Smith, Steve Toussaint, Eve Best and Rhys Ifans.
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