I agree what a joke. $3/episode for shittier quality vs. month's worth of HBO for $10/month in superior quality. Or you can pay $9/month for Netflix and stream all the shows (from previous seasons. Though PSN only has previous seasons as well!) or rent the physical discs. Come on now.
And if you aren't personally against piracy and know how to do it, you can just download your episodes for free. At the sacrifice of quality of course (though the 720p MKVs you can pirate are probably just as good as the 720p downloads on PSN/XBL. Both are inferior to the 720p of HBO broadcasts and Blu-Ray though since the digital downloads are in compressed lossy formats. Personally after all these years, I still like to download Xvid quality because it's a fast download and while the quality is sub-SD (624x352 generally), I'm so used to it that it doesn't matter. I prefer the convenience of XviD over the quality of HD MKV. While 720p MKVs can download fast via torrent, I don't trust torrents because your IP can get flagged and HBO might contact your ISP and let them know that you are pirating their stuff. I personally download from file hosting sites. Though downloading episodes from most of these file hosting sites takes a long, long time (due to wait times and bandwidth limits).
EDIT: Wait it's $2.99/episode for SD, not HD?! Fuck me (as they would say in the Sopranos). So you are paying $3/episode basically for quality that is inferior to what you can pirate for free? lol.
