Seriously. They're changing the fuckin' name again
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HBO Go required a cable subscription and Now didn't. I think both of them only had shows produced by HBO, so it was a much smaller collection.
Go was around for a few years as the only HBO streaming platform, but it came with your cable subscription, so you had to pay for a super expensive cable package to access it. That's partly why Game of Thrones was the top pirated TV show ever, at least at the time.
They eventually released Now, which to my understanding was just Go but you could pay for it directly without a cable package. Both Go and Now existed simultaneously for a few years.
Eventually HBO Max was released, which is the platform we know today with a lot more than just HBO content. That one was renamed to just Max and is now being renamed again back to HBO Max because Max is a stupid name.
That sounds about right. I think I had one through cable and one through some partnership either Hulu or t-mobile did.