HBO Max downgrades lifetime subscription

2025-03-01T16:03:07Z

Katejones24: Created a page for HBO Max, who offered lifetime-discount subscribers the choice between a free downgrade, or a paid upgrade

When HBO Max was introduced in March of 2022, early adopters were offered a 50% lifetime discount as long as they stayed continuously subscribed.

Those users all got an email in February of 2025. They were offered two choices:

* keep paying the same amount, but get downgraded to SD quality
* upgrade to Premium -- via this one-time offer to keep their discount, if you do this before March 24th 2025 - and keep the HD features they got on sign-up, but this would mean they'd pay a higher monthly price.

{| class="wikitable"
|+
!HBO Legacy subscription
!HBO Max Standard subscriptioin
!HBO Max Premium Subscription
|-
|3 streams
|2 streams
|4 streams
|-
|30 downloads
|30 downloads
|100 downloads
|-
|HD & Dolby 5.1 + UHD/4K*
|HD & Dolby 5.1
|4K UHD & Dolby Atmos*
|-
|HDR
|SDR
|HDR
|}

* * where available

==Consumer response==

Consumers were unhappy

https://www.reddit.com/r/nederlands/comments/1iuxzzs/hbo_max_eenzijdige_aanpassing_voorwaarden/?tl=en
==References==
https://hbo.max.com/nl/en/terms-of-use/discount-offer-terms/w2 (original lifetime discount terms)
https://hbo.max.com/nl/nl/terms-of-use/premium-offer-terms/w2 (upgrade offer terms)

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HBO Max downgrades lifetime subscription