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‘House of the Dragon’ Debut Crashes HBO Max for Thousands

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By Shiyin Chen and Christopher Palmeri

August 22, 2022 at 1:59 AM UTC

Updated on

August 23, 2022 at 3:32 AM UTC

The hotly anticipated debut of the “Game of Thrones” prequel saw a vast number of users flock to HBO Max, overwhelming the service for some on Sunday night in the US.

More than 3,000 outages were reported across the global monitoring service Downdetector at 9 p.m. in New York, just as “House of the Dragon” was released.