The widely anticipated Game of Thrones prequel ‘House of the Dragon’ attracted an onslaught of viewers, straining the streaming service on Sunday evening.
Bloomberg’s Chen and Palmeri reports over 3,000 outage reporting across the global monitoring service Downdetector at 09:00hrs local time in New York; coinciding with ‘House of the Dragon’ premiere.
Meanwhile, a Warner Bros Discovery Inc. representative notes that the show is being “successfully viewed” by millions on subscribers.
The parent company of HBO Max further in a statement said, “We’re aware of a small portion of users attempting to connect via Fire TV devices that are having issues and are in the process of resolving for those impacted users.”
‘House of the Dragon’ premieres over three years after the saga of Game of Thrones concluded; the season eight finale drove in 19.3 million viewers, a record for HBO. The prequel, set nearly 170 years before the main events of Game of Thrones, focuses on the infamous Targaryen family’s bloody political conflicts.