Skyegirl1999
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 11, 2016
Our kiddo is taller now so I have no skin in this currently, but I'm bothered by people acting like using Rider Swap passes later was doing something wrong or trying to "cheat" somehow.I think there's no one way to appease everyone every time. This change is obviously to stop people from gaming the system. Like how one poster picked up a rider swap and then merrily went about riding several other rides in other lands with plans to come back later in the evening.. There was no child emergency, they were just using RS as a tool to schedule evening rides & keep picking up FPs. Might be better for parents to just FastPass the big rides and "switch" on their own. It's the same thing! Think Disney has made it this way on purpose so there isn't a real benefit to it. Perhaps they'll do away with it altogether, is my guess.
That wasn't "gaming the system." The swap passes were good anytime on that date, and we were actually specifically advised by a CM to use a RSR one from midday at night one time. There was never any kind of indication or expectation that swaps were happening immediately. If you were re-riding with an older child twice, it would make sense in some situations to space out the two rides, and sometimes you had another FP, dining reservation, etc. coming up...
Like I said, the current change doesn't really affect me, but it's certainly a bummer for people who were accustomed to the way it was, and I don't think those people were "misusing" the system previously. They are changing the system; not enforcing previous rules that weren't being followed.