Just as HBO’s House of the Dragon arrived on Bell’s Crave streaming service at 9:00 PM ET / 6:00 PM PT on August 21st, reports surfaced that in some cases the platform playback will not be launched or played.
Tweets from various Twitter users highlight various issues with the streaming service not starting, the episode not playing, and Crave repeatedly crashing. In some cases, the House of the Dragon episode does not appear on the service at all. DownDetector indicates an increase in reports related to problems with Crave at approximately 9pm ET.
Read a selection of tweets from frustrated Crave users below:
Crave is not working. pic.twitter.com/a69AmbhYfb
— Rob Keyes (@rob_keyes) August 22, 2022
Hey @CraveCanada join in!!! Everyone’s tweeting at you, and you’re too afraid to say a damn word because you know you’ve screwed up on the biggest night of the year. #Crave #CraveCanada #HouseoftheDragon
— Vladdy.G. (@Vladdy_Guerrero) August 22, 2022
Anyone else feel like not working just in time for #got #fml
— Madison Sparkles (@Madison_ftw) August 22, 2022
@CraveCanada is truly garbage. Why are the shows still working with this streaming service? #HouseofthedragonHBO has been buzzing for months. The day finally comes and Crave is completely unusable. Unreal. #Crave #GameOfThrones #HBO
— Northern Nazgul (@Northern_Nazgul) August 22, 2022
Didn’t the #crave plan this accident? Wtf #HouseoftheDragon
— Katie Lynn (@katiestonge_) August 22, 2022
#Crave has always been a steam (quality) issue, now they’ve succumbed to their limited bandwidth infrastructure and crashed for #HouseoftheDragon@CraveHelp @CraveCanada
— Fior di Battaglia 💪🇺🇦 Ukraine is not dead yet (@TarasDemerson) August 22, 2022
nvm here it goes 🙁
— Jim Squires 🔜 #PAXWest (@jimmycanuck) August 22, 2022
I can’t put it down and I was really looking forward to watching the new GoT spin-off
— Tim (@TimVerhaeghe) August 22, 2022
Is that what you see? pic.twitter.com/ZXgCmMLZPJ
— David Alter (@dalter) August 22, 2022
@CraveCanada’s fall during the premiere of #HouseoftheDragon was very predictable. frustrating #bell #longing
— Cal Thomas (@Casablanca33) August 22, 2022
House of Dragons launches and Crave immediately crashes across the country. Canadian telcos, people!
Very happy to keep our incompetent monopolies afloat just because they are 🇨🇦. Oh Canada!
— Autumn Corvus 🇺🇦 (@autumncorvus) August 22, 2022
Crave never ceases to disappoint. #Cravedown #HouseOfTheDragonHBO
— Pratik (@pratikhatankar) August 22, 2022
Trying to log into @CraveCanada to finally watch House of Dragons for the 17th time #Crave #HouseoftheDragon pic.twitter.com/SI7JpZgPDP
— Jonah Kuzmic (@JonahKuzmic) August 22, 2022
We can’t watch #Crave because they can’t manage a popular show, and hey, didn’t they literally double the price last year? #CasadelDrac
— Legit Tourist (@LegitTourist) August 22, 2022
It’s unclear how many users are affected or which Crave apps are affected.
For example, House of the Dragon appears to play on Crave’s iOS and Apple TV app (I’m currently watching the episode as I write this story). MobileSyrup has reached out to Bell for comment on the outage.
In the United States, the premiere of House of the Dragon also caused difficulties for those trying to watch the TV show through HBO Max.
House of the Dragon is set two hundred years before Game of Thrones and follows the beginning of the end of House Targaryen.
Were you able to get House of the Dragon to play through Crave? Let us know in the comments below.
Image credit: HBO