India’s one of the popular video streaming service, Hotstar, who is also an exclusive broadcaster of the most popular web series Game of Thrones, failed to keep its promise that it will show the first episode of the brand new season of the epic saga to its premium users.
Hotstar had made the promise earlier and was promoting aggressively over it. However, when the users started the service to watch the first episode they received an error instead.
“We’re having a temporary playback issue. We’re working on it and will be back very soon!”
Or
“Something unexpected has occurred. We’re working on it.”
According to the reportsm the glitch was not faced by everyone and few lucky ones got to watch the premier successfully.
It was said that the servers of Hotstar could not adapt with the heavy demands and therefore got crashed severely. The people had to went back to the torrent sites to watch the first episode of Game of Thrones, which is one of the most pirated TV show in the history.
However, this does not stopped the people from reacting on Twitter about the problems they had to face. Large number of people complained the issue on the microblogging site showed their anger against Hotstar.
No, not cool Hotstar pic.twitter.com/IIpZU0AoXp
— Tushar Kanwar (@2shar) July 17, 2017
@hotstartweets I signed up to watch @GameOfThrones early morning but you tell "Somethin went wrong" .Now have to look for torrents .WTF .
— Saman (@samancasm) July 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/imvin4y/status/886769613580533761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzfeed.com%2Fpranavdixit%2Fhotstar-had-serious-issues-streaming-the-game-of-thrones
This is what trying to watch your shows legally in India gets you. #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/qx3oi6Jcwc
— Aroon Deep (@AroonDeep) July 17, 2017
Hotstar's servers right now! #GoTS7 #TorrentMorghulis@hotstartweets pic.twitter.com/Pwazom80S1
— Rohit Awate (@TheRohitAwate) July 17, 2017
There's no better way to fail than @hotstartweets did.
Marketing = Lit
Technology = Lol#GamesOfThrones #GoTS7 #Hotstar #SomethingWentWrong— Chandrakanth S (@MelomaniacGuy) July 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/saditya949/status/886769320214265856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzfeed.com%2Fpranavdixit%2Fhotstar-had-serious-issues-streaming-the-game-of-thrones
Come on #Hotstar this is not done #GOT pic.twitter.com/ej6SXbuF6p
— Amit 🇮🇳 (@AmitMSpeaks) July 17, 2017
However, the company was engaged with the users on Twitter and was providing some resolutions.
This is not fair at all. Hotstar should have made appropriate arrangement and eliminated the technical glitches earlier considering the show’s popularity. Not at all acceptable.
By Prajakt K.
