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Last Post: 8:17:19pm, 08/03/2022
Smashingpmkns posted...
Doesn't seem like that's the issue. HBO Max userbase was growing unlike Netflix.
That doesn't matter to companies like Bain Capital (that Mitt Romney reference that dude was making).
A company can be extremely profitable but being bought by an asset vulture and then liquidating that company and selling it off makes more short-term cash than playing the long game does. It's not about the future, it's about the current term profit.
The reason Disney gets away with what they do is that they truly are a global company (while HBO and especially Warner Bros aren't, and that's not negotiable). They don't just make movies or TV shows. They make products that bank, they have amusement parks that bank, they have/had (depending on the winds) a very large sweetheart deal with Florida and California. They have a brand.
What sucks is that all of these streaming companies are eating shit and what sucks is that I'm worried the move is gonna go back to cable packages that fuck you in the ass. I like just paying for what I want, and just paying for an internet package. I don't need sports and kids channels, or movie channels that I have no control over the programming for (ie I wanna watch a random movie from the 80's or 90's, not another showing of a Fast and Furious film).