Go ahead and require a special gadget to get an "electronically transferrable ticket," no skin off my back. That is a feature I will never use.

Don't bother your season ticket holders about getting their own person admitted! I am standing in front of you, bearing identification, and you are whining about a mobile app?

At this point couldn't we have all tickets be printed with a QR code that is used to look up if it's a valid ticket or not (if you have the QR code you have the ticket)? I don't get why forgary would be a thing if the ticket ID's were GUIDs or something else that you can't brute force while physically in line at the event.

The real reason, I fear, that we need the apps is data harvesting to be sold to data brokers.

If ticket prices keep increasing, it would seem the capability to print harder-to-forge tickets could be done with the extra revenue.

They could even do something like give him a little RFID token that can be used once. Tap it, gates open, go in, done.