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It’s really sad because the artists have little to no control over this. It is the venues who are contracted through Ticketmaster.
Yeah, it’s like if every movie theater only used Fandango. It would be ridiculous if that was the case, yet that’s what’s happened to live events.
Also it’s better for Devs than buying grey market keys bought using stolen credit cards.