House of Dragon' premiere crashes HBO Max for Amazon device users

The 'Game of Thrones' prequel premiered on Aug. 21

By Lauryn Overhultz FOXBusiness

The premiere of "House of the Dragon" crashed HBO Max for some users.

《龙之家族》的首映让一些用户在HBO Max上刷屏。

premiere /ˈpremieə(r)/ （电影、戏剧的）首次公演，首映 •the world premiere of his new play 他的新戏在全世界的首次公演

The "Game of Thrones" prequel premiered Sunday. "House of the Dragon" takes place roughly 200 years before the events that occurred in the original HBO series.

《权力的游戏》前传周日首播。《龙之家族》的故事发生在HBO权游电视剧的大约200年前。

prequel /ˈpriːkwəl/ n.先篇，前篇，前传（叙述某流行图书或电影中的故事之前的事情）

Many took to the replies of HBO Max's tweet announcing the release of the show to complain they could not watch.

许多人在HBO Max宣布这部剧发布的推特上回复说他们不能看了。

"Your app keeps shutting down before the episode will play," one user wrote.

一名用户写道:“在剧集播出前，应用程序一直在闪退。”

"The app shuts down every time I try to play the episode! What is going on?!?!? Server overload?" another added.

“每次我想播放该剧的时候，这个应用程序就会闪退！到底怎么回事?!?!?服务器超载?”

"Would be even better if app didn't crash as soon as tried to watch it. Everything else on the app works fine but ‘House of the Dragon,'" one user said. "Watching on Amazon fire stick and have already reset multiple times."

“如果应用没有在观看时崩溃就更好了。除了《龙之家族》，其他的都没问题，”一位用户说。“通过亚马逊fire stick（亚马逊推出的流媒体设备），已经重置多次了。”

Despite some users having issues, HBO Max pointed at Amazon devices for the crash.

尽管有些用户遇到了问题，但HBO Max指出亚马逊设备是导致崩溃的原因。

"'House of the Dragon' is being successfully viewed by millions of HBO Max subscribers this evening," HBO said in a statement, via The Hollywood Reporter. "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."

HBO通过《好莱坞报道》在一份声明中表示：“《龙之家族》今晚成功地被数百万HBO Max用户观看了。我们知道，有一小部分试图通过Fire TV设备连接的用户遇到了问题，我们正在为那些受到影响的用户解决问题。”

The crash affected nearly 3,000 subscribers, according to DownDetector.com.

根据DownDetector.com的消息，这次网站崩溃影响到了大概3000订阅者。

The prequel series was first announced in October 2019, on the same day HBO Max announced the cancellation of another prequel they were planning, which was supposed to dig deeper into the story of The Long Night which is often referred to throughout "Game of Thrones."

这部前传系列于2019年10月首次公布，就在同一天，HBO Max宣布取消他们计划的另一部前传，这部前传本应深入挖掘《权力的游戏》中经常提到的《长夜》的故事。

"House of the Dragon" is based on a book written by George R.R. Martin, the author of "A Song of Ice and Fire" the book "Game of Thrones" is based off, called "Fire and Blood."

《龙之家族》改编自《冰与火之歌》的作者乔治·r·r·马丁(George R.R. Martin)的书，《权力的游戏》的原著是《火与血》。

The prequel stars Milly Alcock, Matt Smith, Emma D'Arcy, Olivia Cooke and more.

Milly Alcock, Matt Smith, Emma D'Arcy, Olivia Cooke等人出演了该前传。

Fox News Digital's Lori Bashian contributed to this report.