{"id":42596,"date":"2016-08-10T23:37:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T03:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=42596"},"modified":"2020-07-22T23:38:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T03:38:08","slug":"must-be-nice-to-be-so-rich-people-dont-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=42596","title":{"rendered":"Must be nice to be so rich, people don\u2019t matter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Good news: I secured tickets to Worlds, the League of Legends world championship, this year in Los Angeles<\/span><\/p>\n

Bad news: They\u2019re nosebleed seats, because I among hundreds and thousands of other aspiring ticket purchasers were unable to get luck of the draw through AXS\u2019s convoluted \u201crandomizing\u201d ticket queue system<\/span><\/p>\n

Naturally, thousands of people are livid at the system used by Riot Games to sell Worlds tickets this year.\u00a0 Personally, I\u2019m not pleased with it either, considering the planning, preparation and execution of my own pursuit to get the best possible seats, and still barely eked through to get shitty nosebleeds.\u00a0 I mean, at least I managed to acquire tickets, but I\u2019m not satisfied with the system in which they were acquired.<\/span><\/p>\n

Basically, AXS is a company that somehow makes people wish Worlds tickets went on sale through Ticketmaster.\u00a0 This is the equivalent of preferring Playstation 4s being sold at Walmart on Black Friday as opposed to buying them from AXS.\u00a0 Never mind the bullshit fees that pretty much equate to a whole third ticket, because most people expect ticket sellers to rape people with their bullshit fees.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s the fact that AXS\u2019s methodology of selling tickets is completely randomized<\/em>.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t matter if you\u2019re like me, who obsessive-compulsively reloads the page an hour before tickets go on sale, so that I can get into the virtual waiting room as early as humanly possible. \u00a0For tickets that went on sale at 1:00 pm EST, a guy logging in at 1:02 pm has just as much of a chance to luck into the purchasing window as a guy like me who had been waiting since 12:29 pm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is where I\u2019d rhetorically ask how in the world is that fair, but I know the world is not really a fair place, and that\u2019s still bullshit.<\/span><\/p>\n

When it comes to dealing with AXS, there\u2019s zero merit to preparation and planning, and 100% entirely up to luck of the draw that your account is \u201crandomly\u201d selected and placed into the purchasing queue, where once inside, can leisurely peruse through available seats, while thousands of irate people await on the outside.<\/span><\/p>\n

Needless to say, by the time I made it in, nearly 19 minutes past 1:00 pm, the Staples Center was pretty much sold out.\u00a0 Even then, it took like 100 refreshes and clicks to be able to finally get two shitty seats where it would\u2019ve been impossible to differentiate Kobe Bryant from Luke Walton and one of them is a black guy and the other, white.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ultimately, I\u2019m glad to have managed to get tickets, but I\u2019m extremely disappointed in the process that doesn\u2019t incentivize preparation and planning and is completely dependent on luck of the draw.\u00a0 Not to mention the obvious reality that not even a full hour after all tickets were sold, probably a third of the Staples Center is up for sale on eBay, at naturally four times the face value of a single ticket.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is where fuming fans voice their suggestions and opinions that if Rito wanted to please fans, if Rito wanted to make more<\/em> money, etc, etc.\u00a0 But the reality of is that Rito is out to make money, and make is easily.\u00a0 Sure, Rito could probably make way more money if they sold the tickets themselves, but that would require work.\u00a0 Instead,\u00a0 they\u2019ll make a little bit less money, but outsource the entire racket to a shit distributor like AXS.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rito simply makes so much money, they give no flying fucks about the fans they make upset with their decisions.\u00a0 Fans of anything are always in some capacity in varying degrees of Stockholm Syndrome, and it doesn\u2019t matter how shitty conglomerates like Rito can be to them, they still come back.<\/span><\/p>\n

Personally, the difference with me now is, after having fallen prey to the same racket for the second straight year, making it a third doesn\u2019t really seem like that appealing of an option.\u00a0 If Worlds isn\u2019t in Korea next year, I probably won\u2019t want to go and deal with this kind of bullshit all over again, and be reminded that Rito simply makes so much money, that they don\u2019t have to give a shit about their fans.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good news: I secured tickets to Worlds, the League of Legends world championship, this year in Los Angeles Bad news: They\u2019re nosebleed seats, because I among hundreds and thousands of other aspiring ticket purchasers were unable to get luck of the draw through AXS\u2019s convoluted \u201crandomizing\u201d ticket queue system Naturally, thousands of people are livid … Continue reading Must be nice to be so rich, people don\u2019t matter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,45,154,49],"class_list":["post-42596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cashmoney","tag-fail","tag-league-of-legends","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42598,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42596\/revisions\/42598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}