My money! HBO Max would rise in price in 2023 despite cancellations

Not long ago HBO experienced the transformation of its streaming service into HBO Max, considering itself one of the best among its competitors and becoming the strongest rival against. Netflix and Disney Plus. The platform’s path looked promising, and just as it was apparently growing steadily, ads came along that wouldn’t be the most convenient, especially for subscribers.

Warner Bros. not only announced in the second half of 2022 the cancellation of certain series, films and projects, including the long-awaited and announced “Batgirl” in which actor Brendan Phrases would participate after his claim in acting. Now, the company is speculated to have considered a neighbor Price hike on HBO Max subscription plans to justify the merger of services approaching.

At the moment it is not known what the name of the merger of HBO Max with Discovery + will be; however, it is a movement already announced by Discovery of Warner Bros at the beginning of August, such as the unification of services that allow the introduction of new cinema and entertainment content, as well as the increase in the monthly and annual rates of the platform, which, without a doubt, is not good for subscribers.

Since HBO Max was launched, it has managed to be the strong rival among the variety of streaming platforms, offering not only quantity and variety of films, series and documentaries, but also providing quality in them, something that has raised the banner of favorites even if the The criticisms came almost exclusively also for the design of its interface which, compared to the competition, lacks some functions, among which the change of playback speed stands out.

Even with these small details, his service was one of the most popular with subscribers, now HBO Max included what was previously exclusive to HBO Go and live channels on pay TV, also known as the cable system. An example of the quality it offers is that it was the absolute leader in the nominations of the 2022 Emmy Awards.

And yes, what may seem like an opportunity for many given its announced merger with Find out more, which will offer more productions to each subscriber, for others it is a shame because it will be a major blow to their pockets and monthly investments. HBO Max, which we don’t know what it will be called in a few months, would increase in price to justify the change.

HBO Max content is worth more than your subscription costs

during a conference Goldman Sachs Communacopia, Gunnar Wiedenfels, the company’s chief financial officer, noted that there will be expected changes in the cost of subscriptions, according to The Verge. The reason is that the current prices of the two services must be combined; HBO Max and Discovery + are “depreciated” and do not take into account the high quality of the original content they offer.

He added that the current state of HBO Max doesn’t make it a perfect streaming service and that contrary to Doscovery +’s interface, its not that good or “clean”, so his comments suggest that one of the changes that will allow the increase in the prices of monthly and annual subscriptions will be the change of experience for the user and after what has been said, make sure that the new transformation matches the improvements already implemented in Discovery +.

Currently in Mexico the price of HBO Max is considered acceptable for the average economy of subscribers who can enjoy an entertainment and streaming service, monthly the cost of 149 pesoshowever, there are subscribers who enjoy promotions launched by the company in the past, paying half this price per month.

In its mobile plan service, HBO Max costs just 99 Mexican pesos per month.

At the moment it is not estimated how much HBO Max could increase in the world, but relatively it could become, at least for Mexico, an increase of the equivalent of one dollar, which translates into an amount of about 22 Mexican pesos. change e price increase, will take effect in autumn 2023 and even with that, it is likely not up to par with the costs and plans of the competition.

However, there are those who anticipate that a joint merger with HBO Max’s price hike could undermine the platform’s progress and lose subscribers in a baffling scenario when Warner Bros. Discover launched a series in early August 2022. deletion of content. The future remains to be seen and will be in the coming months, and perhaps until next year, when each of the changes will be clearly determined.