HBO Streaming Inside Game of Thrones for HBO Now Subscribers
Want to go deeper into Game of Thrones? Better get yourself a HBO Now subscription.
When HBO announced HBO Now, a streaming-only option, it was entering an already fiercely competitive market. Between Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu, there was already hardly anymore room for another big player. HBO Now doesn’t outright offer anything exclusive that regular HBO users can’t already get, but that is starting to change.
HBO has created The Game Revealed, a docu-series about making Game of Thrones. There will be five episodes in all, each covering two full episodes of season six. The first episode went up a few days ago and covers “The Red Woman” and “Home.” For now, The Game Revealed is technically exclusive to HBO Now.
That doesn’t mean it can’t be easily found over on YouTube.
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By sweetening the pot with Game of Thrones goodies, HBO is trying to bring in more subscribes for its streaming service. It puts regular users in somewhat of an awkward position, as HBO Go doesn’t offer the same exclusives as Now.
So far, HBO Now hasn’t had anything that could be considered a big deal when it comes to bringing in subscribers. They have to tread a careful line in order to keep the existing cable subscribers happy, and that’s where programs like The Game Revlead come in. Just a bit of a bonus, not really anything more than that.
It will be inserting to see how HBO continues this delicate balancing act going forward. HBO Now needs to be seen as attractive — more attractive than a regular subscription with the added benefit of HBO Go. That could happen, in time.
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The Game Revealed is another addition to Game of Throne’s already beefy post-show banter, which includes HBO’s own After the Thrones.