...but they are a major streaming platform. But yeah it's as much their fault as AT&T. Same with FIre stick. TCL puts Roku on literally all of their TVs.
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Which they will do with other things.
The Snyder cut of JL surely falls in the same boat. LotR EE is a product-selling exclusive to have for those fans (like me). Any one set of films that can convince one small group to subscribe is worth it, especially as they are already completed. They also probably rank no.1 on more people's film lists than many others on there.
Stuff like Star Wars and LotR are many people's favourite by a distance. Same goes for the Avengers films and TDK if we're talking comic films. I bet having an extra edge on those is as important as having an extra 20 average level films. HBO Max is coming after Netflix and Disney + so many people will be questioning how many simultaneous subscriptions they can maintain, especially after the financial hit they may have taken during this virus, so it seems strange to withhold anything you already have the rights to (that is complete) unless there is something else preventing you from doing so.
But you're not the majority. A vast majority of people are fine without those extended editions. And most people who care about the extended editions own them anyway. Those are really "for the fans." The fans that will shell out to buy the home media of those, which is why they sell them.
Ha.Watch the Sopranos or The WIre they aren't trash like Game of Thrones
The majority don't want any one film or TV series. They are aiming at a hundred different minorities with platform leaders ($30m for the Snyder cut of a film that wasn't even well received compared to LotR and with a small fanbase asking for it), and after that quantity and a solid user interface. There are only so many avenues to compete on with streaming providers who offer a similar service, and not putting all your players on court is strange. Now if they had to pay any nominal amount of money to do this, then that makes it a tougher decision. Maybe that is the case or there are other obstacles in the way, who knows.
No pun intended but I think HBO Max is the maximum people will sign up for. I think after this I can't see anyone launching a successful service. I know Viacom/CBS is working on one too, but I just don't see that taking off. And after that I just don't really see a new player coming in and making any real noise. Especially when they most likely will have to rely soley on original content because all the big pieces are tied upHa.
GoT has lost part of it's allure with how it finished to be fair . It would have been a crucial differentiator in the earlier and mid seasons.
I think people have lower standards for the first streaming platform they subscribe to, which is partially why I think many are still with Netflix regardless of competition. But whoever comes 5th, 6th, 7th is going to need to go all in to tempt people who are already reasonably satisfied and also, a cheap hobby (compared to cable) is suddenly starting to mount up with multiple subscriptions.
Ok. i'm not saying "don't put them on there". I'm saying it doesn't matter. If it did more streaming services would be doing it. They're fine without the director's cuts.
I've got my cable sub (Sky), Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney +. I think you have a good point there. Even if I loved all the future ones, I don't need to have them all at the same time. I could for eg watch all the Bonds, Star Wars, Mission Impossibles that one service has in a month, cancel then and move onto another and so on. I will probably get HBO Max but after that anything more is going to be a hard sell.
But also we have to remember that there is a lot of password sharing, so you and I may sign up and pay for a lot, but a lot of people don't pay for their own accounts which I think "helps" with fatigue with cost
I get that, I just don't quite agree. Do you not consider the Snyder cut a director's cut? That is HBO doing it right there showing they do think it matters and are willing to throw money at it. The LotR EE cuts are also majorly different to the theatricals compared to some directors cuts I've seen, while being a much more successful film series with a bigger hardcore fanbase (I'm talking only the crazies) than those who have campaigned for the Snyder cut (which is why the extended editions were made and funded without any campaign in the first place). HBO are doing it as the new kid on the block as they need to differentiate. I think the other studios have missed a trick (and the execs certainly haven't proven that they are always on the ball with what would make the most money from consumers) and will be watching the reaction to the Snyder cut and may react.
unless you want to keep going of course 
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Yeah, that 's true too. I struggle to think of many people I know who have all their streaming accounts exclusively for themselves.
Yeah I'm the only person who pays for their own stuff. And even then HBO Max and YouTube TV I split with my brother.
I'm kind of surprised they allow you to have so many different accounts on the same login, although it does mean serious loyalty. Cancelling a service when multiple people are using it is a different proposition to acting by yourself when you feel like it. Btw what do you get on YouTube TV? I don't know much about that.
