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[lenovox1]

Astonishing that she's basically embraced the fact she's a bitch

Problematic.

 

[Monocle]

The “pre-order and purchase boosts” are limited to 13 total across retailers.

Only 13??? Then how am I going to get a copy for every room of my house, my car, my friend's car, his glovebox and trunk, my favorite Grindr date's pad, and my local crack den?

 

[JABEE]

This is some of the sleaziest shit around.

 

[D4Danger]

"buy stuff for the chance to buy other stuff"

coming to a video game near you soon

 

[Velcro Fly]

"buy stuff for the chance to buy other stuff"

coming to a video game near you soon

Release shitty games on new consoles as a "test" to see if fans truly want something good later on.

 

[Shaanyboi]

Why not just sell plain white t-shirts for $100?

But that's totally worth it! These plain white shirts were in same room as Taytay herself!*

Spoiler

*Big Machine Records does not claim any responsibility regarding comments made about the advertised item and their presence or proximity to Ms. Swift or any Big Machine Records employees. Any value prescribed to the items in question in relation to such claims is purely at the discretion of the buyer at time of purchase. In completing this transaction, the customer waives any rights to seek legal or financial compensation regarding claims made by Big Machine Records, its affiliated advertisers, distributors, or any other associated person(s) or entities.

 

[JABEE]

Buy 13 copies of my album to move up the list for a better chance at spending $300 on my tickets.

 

[NameGenerated]

Can't knock the hustle as the gaffers say.

 

[Malvolio]

What else are 12 year olds going to spend their allowance on?

 

[JABEE]

Why not just sell plain white t-shirts for $100?

Kanye did it.

 

[Sunster]

Well, like the reason we shouldn't use them for voting, not everyone has one, as they are something you essentially have to pay for, it's not something the government just issues. Indeed, the most common ID accepted in the US is the driver's license, but a whole lot of people don't have driver's licenses because in order to get one you need to be able to drive a car, pass the test, do some other BS.

good point

 

[lenovox1]

The capitalist solution to blocking scalpers is obvious. Charge everyone the scalping price upfront. You can implement this directly via a Dutch auction. But some people say it's """immoral""" to deny everyone except Saudi princes access to the concert, so here we are.

Give the artists and their teams some credit.

If Swift and others wanted to only perform for Saudi royalty, they would never ever tour. She could easily plant her ass somewhere and not leave and have people come to her.

 

[vulva]

I wouldn't be surprised if she turned out to be an alt-right orange turd supporter. She is a textbook hypocrite https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/9/15767986/taylor-swift-apple-music-spotify-statements-timeline.

What a bizarre leaping of conclusions

 

[ZeoVGM]

This is a fantastic reference.

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

This is a fantastic reference.

I enjoyed it.

 

[Kayhan]

I am shocked, shocked the music industry is all about making money.

 

[Sweeney Tom]

Signed up for it day one too 😁

 

[Kayhan]

Her marketing team are giving themselves a congratulatory cake snort over this

NeoGAF is a family friendly site.

 

[Keri]

It's definitely not something I would participate in or pay money for, but who cares if other people want to spend their money and time, boosting their "maybe" spot in line? If they're disclosing there are no guarantees and people still want to participate then sounds OK to me.

 

[malboroking]

The social media spamming part of this scheme should be easy to bot. So obviously the solution to this is to remove that and keep the parts that involve paying money.

Swift has been all about the money since forever.

Ftfy

 

[NHarmonic.]

Ftfy

Implying pop stars are about artistry, lol. None of them could possibly say that in this era.

 

[Usobuko]

You are literally paying for the privilege to do her marketing for her. LOL jesus they could have hid it a little better

Genius.

Now if only she's restricted to being popular in her own country and have little influences worldwide.

 

[Toparaman]

Astonishing that she's basically embraced the fact she's a bitch

As if she makes the call on stuff like this. Taylor Swift (tm) is a brand, managed by at least a dozen people.

That's not me calling Swift's artistic credibility or talent into question. But most popular artists don't want to deal with the nitty gritty of the music business. They have people for that.

All that said, she should really step in and pull the plug on this thing.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

I GET THIS REFERENCE

SWIFT TELLS THE FANS TO GET NAKED AND THEN SHE DEVOURS THEM ALL WITH HER LIGHT POWERS

 

[Jombie]

What a gross, patronizing way to fuck over your fans. It's never enough.

 

[lenovox1]

As if she makes the call on stuff like this. Taylor Swift (tm) is a brand, managed by at least a dozen people.

That's not me calling Swift's artistic credibility or talent into question. But most popular artists don't want to deal with the nitty gritty of the music business. They have people for that.

All that said, she should really step in and pull the plug on this thing.

Eh. This is for pre-sale tickets.

 

[mreddie]

 

[Oozer3993]

For what it's worth, here's my place in line after doing nothing more than watching the music video twice:

(I'm not sure what the 3rd boost is. Maybe just signing up?)

 

[DOWN]

This system is powered by Verified Fan from TicketMaster. How does their Verified Fan program normally work?

 

[Owari]

I'm sure popGAF will be in here to defend her ASAP, just like when they defended her disgusting album release date.

 

[lenovox1]

I'm sure popGAF will be in here to defend her ASAP, just like when they defended her disgusting album release date.

So...
A) PopGAF isn't a thing anymore.
B) The only people that think she deliberately chose her album to release the same day as on the date a person she may not like anymore's mom died are insane. Equivalent to flat Earth truthers.

 

[BladeoftheImmortal]

This is a fantastic reference.

I enjoyed it.

What's it of?

 

[Shaanyboi]

What's it of?

Angel

Big shitty demon that helps everyone find peace and adore one another... all while it feeds on them.

 

[M-PG71C]

Don't give Nintendo ideas

Too fucking late, you know they writing lol

 

[Muppet of a Man]

Everyone already knows that Taylor Swift is a terrible person.

 

[D i Z]

So...
A) PopGAF isn't a thing anymore.
B) The only people that think she deliberately chose her album to release the same day as on the date a person she may not like anymore's mom died are insane. Equivalent to flat Earth truthers.

So you've arrived.

 

[Sunster]

 

[Dhx]

I wonder what kind of shows Saudi princes go to 🤔

Shows come to Saudi princes.

 

[shintoki]

Buy my shit and advertise for me!

Genius.

 

[AHA-Lambda]

Wow, this is impressively cynical.

And it's all "for the fans" of course.
Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.

 

[Dr. Feel Good]

The correct way to fight scalpers without jacking prices up to in infinity is to force people to verify a phone number (no VOIP) to register, show ID name matching the ticket purchaser at the gate, limit the number of tickets purchased to 2 (effectively doubling the price and forcing the scalper to go to the concert in order to resell the second ticket), give tickets out in a lottery system (so no one is guaranteed a ticket, just an entry), and to schedule several shows so as to sate demand.

... they already do this.

You have to verify your phone number, there's a ticket limit, on high end tours you have to show your ID (Mayweather fight was Verified Fan and let no one is without ID, wouldn't be surprised if Taylor Swift was too), there's no guarantee after you register and is based on a scoring lottery system, and they do it across all shows.

 

[arts&crafts]

I bought The National tickets in Toronto for December. I could only buy 2 per mailing address and have to show ID (it says).

Its funny because I got an email about presale and got 2 tickets but then when the real tickets came on sale I bought 2 more for my friend and the tickets I got at regular sale were 50x better for the same price! Your biggest fans who you email presale codes to get the worst seats.....fuck bands (and ticketmaster).

 

[CloudWolf]

Yeah, I actually laughed when I saw the trailer for this. It's so fucking stupid, but you just know that all the hardcore fangirls (and boys, if she has those) will fall for it. It's just straight up taking advantage of your fans.

 

[Ratrat]

Its AKB48 levels of genius.　Bravo.

 

[BigJonsson]

This is hilarious.....

Friends on Facebook were excited about this, I mentioned that if she really wanted to get tix to real fans she'd do a fan club lottery system like Pearl Jam

 

[MarkMclovin]

The scalping issue with tickets can be fixed so damn easily, it's insane.

 

[lenovox1]

Yeah, I actually laughed when I saw the trailer for this. It's so fucking stupid, but you just know that all the hardcore fangirls (and boys, if she has those) will fall for it. It's just straight up taking advantage of your fans.

Can't really agree with you there. While it's nowhere near as fair is a straight-up a lottery system, these tickets are only for pre-sales. Again, the Harper fans that are going to buy into this would have bought all of that shit anyways.

 

[wisdom0wl]

Snake doin snake things

 

[DeathyBoy]

Man, what is Gaf's thing with Taylor Swift?

I thought PopGaf being removed was a Godsend at the time, but it sent a bunch of crazy motherfuckers into the Wild West and they went batshit insane.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

This is actually how they do ticketing for fan club concerts and events and stuff in Japan.

Japanese fans of anything have too much money and the process for separating them from as much of it as possible is very efficient there.