Pay-to-cut: Not Fun For Everyone

Brian Nobel: Of course I'm speaking in hypotheticals as to where all this is leading to. Once the facts are all in, these systems will be established and parks could care less what we think of them. Parks are looking for feed back on the issue now, they won't be later.

You have a theory that any policy that manages to annoy a majority of guests would not be profitable in the long run.

I believe parks can find ways to make a profit while annoying a majority of guests. FastLane could do this.

I too have a lot of faith in corporate ingenuity, possibly to a scary degree. Systems like FastLane could make parks very rich over the next few years, encouraging them to overlook the negative effects for a long time.

I love parks, I consider them to be sacred. Parks have successfully run for well over a hundred years without virtual queues. Why so eager to change the rules? Were they really that bad?

Policies that prioritize profit over guest satisfaction is annoying at Six Flags, though seemingly consistent with Six Flags business practices as Gonch pointed out.

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However, they didn't care before FastLane, so why should anything change after. Not because of incentive, but rather that's how they do business.
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For me and many others when FastLane opens at these other park chains it will be evidence of a shift in priorities. It will be short sighted for guests to believe that virtual queue installation is all that has changed at those parks.