How did you get that based off what I said?

okay.....

I’m gonna chalk up a lot of her bad experience to “datapad issues.” But a four hour video praising her time on the starcruiser sure wouldn’t get nearly the attention she’s getting now....so.....

I’m sure I didn’t come across well in the thread and I started commenting before I watched the relevant portions of her video, where she clearly had major issues not of her own making. I reacted negatively to earlier parts of her video where she made some points I still don’t agree with, even with that context.

Which feels like part of the glitch. While there were certainly times on the starcruiser you had to choose between simultaneous events/experiences, the app should definitely not have given her a mission during her scheduled meal time. Nor should she have been invited to an experience that was apparently over before…

Yeah, she had a shitty experience and that’s a damn shame for her. If I had her experience on the starcruiser, you bet I’d be down on it, too.

Well, I appreciate the clarification!  Cheers.  :)

I’ve said repeatedly now that her experience was clearly bad and that sucks for her.

I watched at least half of the video at this point, I’ll probably finish. Her “worth it” section took a deep dive into a Phineas and Ferb game and she lost my interest.

Okay, what about six thousand dollars to go to Rome? What about thousands upon thousands of dollars to go to the Super Bowl? Or a thousand bucks a ticket to watch the Rolling Stones? Stop being a judgy prick. I guarantee you’ve indulged in things I wouldn’t spend one red cent on. Who cares? Let people do things that…

I had a good time. She had a bad time. Both can be true. After having watched (more of, but not quite all) of her video, I have nothing but sympathy for her, since it seems she was subjected to issues beyond her control that negatively impacted her time. And that certainly sucks.

By that metric, how dare you ever do anything remotely nice that poor people can’t afford. How dare you spend a couple hundred dollars on a meal at a restaurant when that’s the entire grocery budget for a working family for the entire month? How dare you buy a car that costs the equivalent of a year’s salary for…

I agree that it’d be hard to tell between “Hmm, I think the game is broken” versus “Does this game just suck?”

Well, billionaires lunatics, sure. But Disney is a company that is absolutely terrified/draconian about protecting its reputation, so having a couple hundred people die in a hotel fire is the kind of bad PR they would definitely take steps to avoid.

Not at all. I had an amazing time and would happily have gone again.

I did watch the video. I also went on the starcruiser. You don’t get assigned a path. You just don’t.

I mean, okay, but if you honestly think Disney, DISNEY, built a hotel with no fire escapes, you’re too dumb to even talk to. You know that they have inspectors, right? And not having a fire exit would be just about the most stunningly obviously safety shortcut in the world that would literally never come to pass. You…

Hey, no argument. Marketing was so spectacularly bad I honestly hope people lost their jobs over it. When I heard the initial concept, I thought, “Hell, yeah, this sounds awesome!”

I’m no tax expert, but considering how they got a massive tax write-down on it, they legally can’t do anything with it, at least for a while.  So we’ll have to wait and see.

The video won’t explain why the marketing was bad. And the marketing was truly awful and, unfortunately, they couldn’t seem to get the correct message out and they couldn’t get away from the bad  narrative once the haters and naysayers got their knives out. (Which doesn’t excuse the awful marketing, of course.)