It seems like they are closing things left and right with little to no replacements. Animation is closing soon and there is already hardly anything to do at the Park.
Well like I said, love it or hate it, it is impossible to deny the fact that it was a HUGE project, one that took a lot of effort, and yet we call Disney lazy.Yeah.. rfid... Disney is pushing it though. I would love to see 60 Minutes do an investigative piece on both Nexgen and MM+. To see a map of the MK and the rfid readers dotting the park generally would be cause for concern. Even the sheep and cattle would have second thoughts I think.
Next Gen was sold to the Disney board of directors as a means to increase revenue. The Disney exec. was famous for saying we're going to get more money out of our customer's wallets. At the beginning they touted it was going to make major revenue differences. Now, when approached on what those revenue increases are, they either go silent or change the subject. Why, because it drained a few billion that could have been better spent. and there is no measurement it increased revenue. And the top two execs. that pushed for the concept & implemented it, are, as the end of July, no longer with Disney. Both forced out primarily for the debacle.
They DID do something, and it was incredible in scope and ambition.
It's college, dude. You don't learn what the teachers like, you do case studies, watch interviews with industry leaders, test based on real data. Come on now.I get that your teachers really like it, but come on. Its scope and ambition was to increase Disney's bank accounts, not to increase guest satisfaction
Universal didn't build Diagon Alley to make people happy, they did it to make money. \
And your general dislike of NextGen doesn't mean that people aren't happy with what Disney has done either. In fact, attendance increases seem to prove the opposite.Sure. It was done to make money. By making people happy.
Why? Are people really creeped out by it? Does it really matter if Disney knows what I'm at on property?
Spot on. I'm probably going to get one again in Fall or December 2016 to check out Frozen and be in the timeframe for Avatar, until then I'm just going to the hard tickets. I really wish Disney would allow you to split reservations in a day across two parks, it makes park hopping a pain unless you go to AK.I was an annual pass holder until April, and with the constant increases in cost of visiting the park, the lack of new upgrades, and new consistent experiences, and trying to nickel and dime you everywhere I had to give up my passes to WDW. It almost got to the point that I was using my passes to go have dinner in the parks!
NextGen did nothing except burn a HUGE hole in their pockets and that money could've been better spent, and now everyone is paying for it, I mean really?? $100 for a one day pass in the park is ridiculously steep.
Yea the bands are easy to use and convenient, but even at a store I still had to pull out my hard plastic card pass to prove I was a passholder, so its for nothing.
It's not the technology itself, it's the utilization of it itself that hotels and such have taken notice of.Hard tickets have RFID as well.
They are not aware of it because they are not aware of its potential abuse. Just my assumption. And yes, if they are able to determine where a large number of people linger indecisively, they can abuse that location with any kind of product. On top of that, they can manipulate you like a cookie works on the internet. They can slam you with any product you purchased and attempt to sell you something similar.
So, it is like the internet, yet with humans pushing you, yet unlike the internet, you cannot shut your cookies prefs to off.
They are not aware of it because they are not aware of its potential abuse. Just my assumption. And yes, if they are able to determine where a large number of people linger indecisively, they can abuse that location with any kind of product. On top of that, they can manipulate you like a cookie works on the internet. They can slam you with any product you purchased and attempt to sell you something similar.
So, it is like the internet, yet with humans pushing you, yet unlike the internet, you cannot shut your cookies prefs to off.
$100 for a one day pass in the park is ridiculously steep.