Honestly, why isn't there a "non-flash site" option. The site is great to look at, but I wouldn't mind a basic "text only" site if it meant not having to deal with all these dern glitches!

what's done is done..So can we all be patient..yes our money is valuable..yes it is frustrating,let them have the time to expeditiously correct everything.






THANKS FOR THE UPDATE !

The funniest part is that many of these same people had horrible experiences with NPGMC1 and NPGMC2.

LotusFlow3r tells all members "no refunds." At the same time, they do not guarantee or warranty anything. They can change the site at any time. They can cancel your membership at any time for any reason with out notification. You have one chance to download. If you get it wrong, tough luck. If LotusFlow3r breaches the agreement, you indemnify them of any liability. There are no guarantees that Prince is coming to your town. If he comes to your town, there are no guarantees that you will get reduced or advanced tickets. There are no guarantees that you will get good seats to a concert.

In other words, pay the money and take what you get, if you get anything.

Now a year from now, those same NPGMC1 and NPGMC2 members who were complaining will complain again about LotusFlow3r membership. I was a 1 and 2 member but did not complain. I really liked 1 the best.

Anyway, I am not doing LotusFlow3r membership this go round. I'll just pay the $12.00 and get the music from store.

The underlying idea is that there appears to be no incremental improvement.
No new website improves on the last one.
Every P site starts from scratch and appears to learn nothing from the previous incarnation.
Even mostly basic things like ssl, browser compatibility, server load etc appear to have been left untested.

Of course I do realise that over here we see mostly complaints and few messages from people that have no problem at all.

If this were a free or very cheap thing then it wasn't a big deal. But now we blindly pay $77 (which is about 56.73 euro for the rest of the world) so we have a business deal. In such a situation we can be a bit more critical about things.
Compare to buying a new TV (like the americans did inthe past 6-7 years), what if it had multiple flaws in the first week like the ones on the site?

No, this is not bashing, just getting people to have a fair grip on reality.
Flaws are not the problem, but the number of them and the scale.

xlr8r said:

Damn some of yall are histrionic

site is amazing now

the haters can go to sleep

Amazing how?

Anxiety said:

Copycat said:

japanrocks said:

japanrocks said:

xenon said:

japanrocks said:

site is amazing now

It's fantastic today.

No choppiness at all on the vids, site looks fantastic.

udo said:

things work fine when i use firefox

Video playback is working 100% better now.

stanleylieber said:

udo said:

If that is true, why do we pay?
Why does P make a scene about his (C)opyrights?
This is very contrary his normal pose. (!!)

At least for us we would expect that content is not accessible to non-members (because we paid).

it's not like that on purpose.

japanrocks said:

japanrocks said:

badmofo said:

If you think he needs Warner, then your not a true fan. I can understand glitches, but there is no excuse for asking your fans to pay $77 for a site that hasn't been completely tested. As another orger said, I would want an HTML version. It would be much easier to view in HTML because you could preload the videos and it wouldn't be so choppy. Eh, but we'll see.

3/27/09 UPDATE: We've launched an optimized version of the site tonight that should address a good amount of the issues that people have been experiencing.

We've optimized the Flash throughout the site which should help improve the experience on all computers.

We've recompiled the zip files of all of the albums so if anyone has had issues with downloading any of the albums they should attempt to download them again. It's recommended that they only attempt to downloading one of the WAV zips at a time as they are each over 400MB.

The video playback should be improved somewhat, but we are working on making it flawless.

Thanks for your understanding.

Sincerely,
Scott & the LotusFlow3r.com team

BartVanHemelen said:

stanleylieber said:

it's not like that on purpose.

I argue that it is. It is a direct result of hiring an incompetent f*ckwit to do a job that should be handled by professionals. This guy had obviously ZERO experience in making this kind of site.

Also, Prince should have hired independent testers to check the security. If your livelihood depends on people paying for your shit, you better make sure no one can get it for free.

FunkyPhresh said:

Anxiety said:

I am still unable to download the albums.....when I click on the download MP3 tab it tells me the file is not found. Also, the songs are just scrolling on the player instead of letting me listen...I cant get them to stop scrolling and start playing. This was NOT the case 2 nights ago, but is today. Anyone else having these issues???
Im annoyed that by the time I can access this music I will be able to buy it at TARGET for only $12

I am at my work computer and I noticed that lotus team did make the "account" section bigger, and when you type in information, it is much lighter (in light blue) if you type any info in, so you can see the information you're typing in without straining your eyes.

They are definitely making some improvements. The "Everytime" video plays nicely as well. I just hope the vids and other stuff work just as good on my home computer.

3/27/09 UPDATE: We've launched an optimized version of the site tonight that should address a good amount of the issues that people have been experiencing.

We've optimized the Flash throughout the site which should help improve the experience on all computers.

We've recompiled the zip files of all of the albums so if anyone has had issues with downloading any of the albums they should attempt to download them again. It's recommended that they only attempt to downloading one of the WAV zips at a time as they are each over 400MB.

The video playback should be improved somewhat, but we are working on making it flawless.

Thanks for your understanding.

Sincerely,
Scott & the LotusFlow3r.com team

Thanks Scott.

Rorywan said:

Anxiety said:

3/26/09 UPDATE: the MPSoUND zip was fixed last night, and they're working on optimizing video playback...

Problem is, even if the site works properly.. it is still shit.

CrimsonLot3s said:

3/27/09 UPDATE: We've launched an optimized version of the site tonight that should address a good amount of the issues that people have been experiencing.

We've optimized the Flash throughout the site which should help improve the experience on all computers.

We've recompiled the zip files of all of the albums so if anyone has had issues with downloading any of the albums they should attempt to download them again. It's recommended that they only attempt to downloading one of the WAV zips at a time as they are each over 400MB.

The video playback should be improved somewhat, but we are working on making it flawless.

Thanks for your understanding.

Sincerely,
Scott & the LotusFlow3r.com team

Thanks Scott.

skibby said: