You're arguments are ever changing.
You were called-out in late-summer for comparing Disney Land & Disney World.....you argued how they were effectively the same, therefore, MaxPass/Genie would be better than FastPass.
Just a few months ago you were all too quick to document that Disney World & Disney Land are so similar in ride capacity and numbers of guests, that Genie+ was going to work better than FastPass+, because MaxPass reasons.....
Now, you're agreeing that Genie+ is a flawed system, and yet, somehow, it's still better than FastPass+......despite plenty of folks documenting how FastPass was better for them, even with real-world comparison to Genie.
[But if any of us who have engaged in conversation with you have learned anything - it's all about havoc315, ammirite]
Amazingly, with real-world comparable experiences documented on these Threads, you are still arguing that people are somehow wrong - Genie+ is better.....because reasons.....
On the other hand, I have been following multiple Threads about Genie+. Seems as if the majority of complaints about capacity & tech failures are coming from Disney World, not Disney Land.....which is what many of us tried, repeatedly, to demonstrate to you.
Moreover, with you being the exception, I'm not reading nearly as many comments about folks who enjoy Genie versus FastPass (when excluding money from the conversation).
Then you must be reading very different people than me. Because everything I've said has proven to be true. Definitely complaints about tech failures -- No shock with a new system. FP+ was continuously plagued by tech failures.
I highly recommend:
As to availability and capacity -- The system started to crack in 10/10 days late last week, and started to do much better as crowds receded slightly to 8/10.
But even at the worst 10/10 days, availability was better than FP+.
Additionally, you still willfully ignore the never-ending failures of Disney IT. Seems to be countless families that have to relive these deficiencies on a daily basis while vacationing, instead of having advanced warning that came with FastPass bookings months out. I'll say it differently - Disney is increasingly requiring guests to rely on technology that is perpetually flawed; Genie punctuates the notion.
See.... I think you're half-right there. FP+ forced guests to rely on horribly flawed technology months in advance, punishing those who didn't have advanced knowledge of the technology, punishing those who were off-site. Genie+ is still far from perfect, but a significant improvement as it uses to technology to introduce flexibility.
Great --- On all my prior trips, I have "advance warning" that I wouldn't be able to ride FOP. Woohoo, lucky me. But under the new system, even on a 10/10 day, I have the knowledge that I can almost certainly ride FOP as long as I book it when I wake up.
In a nutshell, your thesis was all about enhancing the Park Experience through Genie (versus MaxPass and/or FastPass).
Correct---- And there are some bumps with new technology. But, I already seen it as a vastly improved experience over FP+.
My two-cents - the complaints are not about the money, it's about a flawed system. But adding insult-to-injury (making the flawed-system seem worse), is being charged for it.
By your own admission, Universal's system is different than Disney. My family had their first lousy Disney experience this past summer and their first Universal experience. We preferred Universal so much more (because of rise access) that our future plans (based on our Guest Experience) will no longer be Disney-focused.....because Disney, for way too many of us, has demonstrated that they are no longer focused on the Guest Experience if they cannot charge more for it. Universal is being honest, the same cannot be said for Disney.
Again, I partially agree with you: It is a flawed system. The greatest flaw is that it is too cheap. They really should charge $100-$300 per person, per day, like Universal.
Again, I highly recommend this video:
IT gives a deeper understanding to the flaws of FP+, which are only partially alleviated by Genie+.
In a nutshell, you can't give line-cutting to every person on every ride. Any attempt to do so, will fail miserably. The benefit of the original FP system was that it only applied to a few rides, and only used by some people. Even at that time, many engineers knew it would entirely fail if you tried to apply it to every ride.
So the FP+ experiment became an utter failure. It actually reduced the number of real attractions that an average guest would experience. (it increased the number for a small few, while decreasing the number for most. While significantly increasing standby wait times).
Genie+ partially fixes the flaws of FP+, but doesn't go nearly far enough. Any effective line-cutting system has to be extremely limited -- Limited to number of attractions and/or limited to the number of guests using it.
Charging $15 isn't nearly enough of a limitation. But it's a start.