Apparently when you watch the Game of Thrones, you either win or you spend hours buffering.
Moments into the season 4 premiere of Game of Thrones, HBO Go crashed for thousands of users. The streaming service was either taking excessively long periods of time to load or displaying the message, "Fatal error - Failed to load the service error definitions."
HBO Go tweeted updates and apologies throughout the evening.
Looks like there's trouble in the realm. Apologies for the inconvenience. We'll be providing updates, so please stay tuned. #GameofThrones— HBO GO (@HBOGO) April 7, 2014
Having trouble accessing @HBO GO? Send a raven. @GameOfThrones will be available soon on HBO On Demand with some cable providers.— HBO GO (@HBOGO) April 7, 2014
We're sorry for all of the trouble, but if you're an @HBO subscriber, the @GameOfThrones premiere replays at 11 PM EST.— HBO GO (@HBOGO) April 7, 2014
Several people took to Twitter to air their grievances (or simply to make jokes and kill time until they could actually watch GoT).
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HBO Go experienced similar problems in early March during the season finale of True Detective. Following the True Detective problems, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes promised to invest more into HBO Go to keep similar malfunctions from happening again, Variety reports.
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