Winter is coming, folks: The “Game of Thrones” season 5 premiere date is set for April 12, and this season is going to be different. In a variety of ways. The most exciting aspect of GoT s5 actually doesn’t have all that much to do with the season itself: It’s the advent of the standalone HBO Go, which doesn’t have a name yet, but promises to make “Game of Thrones” available to non-cable TV subscribers for the first time. But is it too good to be true? And how much will it cost?

“Game of Thrones” Season 5 And HBO Go

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I am not super convinced that “Game of Thrones” season 5 is going to be as good as the first few seasons. After all, they’re dealing with an ever larger story with just the same ten episode format, they’re ahead of the books, and they’re leaving out major, major characters for reasons entirely unknown. It’s big trouble (HBO, give them even more money! Or just cut their damn catering budget). However, I am super convinced that I will watch all of season 5 anyway, and that you will too. The question is how we watch it.

Getting cable is a non-starter for, I don’t know, pretty much any self-respecting millennial out there. And that leaves a conundrum, the very conundrum the new HBO standalone streaming service aims to solve. But I think there’s going to be a problem: Price. The standalone HBO Go is going to cost a heck of a lot more than tacking HBO onto a cable subscription package costs, especially if, like HBO Go, it offers basically the entire suite of past HBO programming. There’s a reason cable companies have resisted a la carte programming for so long, and when it finally gets here, it’s going to be expensive. It stands to reason that HBO’s standalone service will be quite expensive too.

Let me put it to you straight: You aren’t going to be able to watch “Game of Thrones” season 5 for $10 a month. This isn’t Netflix. Honestly, considering the depth of HBO’s programming and their ownership, which encourages continuing commitment to the existing cable model, I think we’ll be lucky if it’s only $20 a month—assuming it’s anything like HBO Go. It could even be more than that. And that means “Game of Thrones” season 5 may not be all that accessible to millennials after all. At least not to cheap ones.