Nobody is mentioning what is on the site, you are all complaining..lol There is another thread for that. This is to tell us what the site looks like. I will not pay for it, so I need some info..lol

Why are you guys whining anyway, you knew the site would be wack. Prince is a millionaire, to him 77 dollars is a small bit.

I am also not surprised that he will charge for 'premium' material, which must mean the vault stuff. 77 dollars and you all still have to pay extra for the vault..lol

Didn't see any VIDEOS!

Nobody is mentioning what is on the site, you are all complaining..lol There is another thread for that. This is to tell us what the site looks like. I will not pay for it, so I need some info..lol

Why are you guys whining anyway, you knew the site would be wack. Prince is a millionaire, to him 77 dollars is a small bit.

I am also not surprised that he will charge for 'premium' material, which must mean the vault stuff. 77 dollars and you all still have to pay extra for the vault..lol

2freaky4church1 said:

well it doesn't say that anywhere on the site or the conditions/rules.

we're just assuming that prince will be a stingy bastard with his vault
material and make us pay through the nose.

however, there is still a lot of room within the next 364 days for him
to surprise us and make people like me, who have already bitched and
moaned since this morning, take back their words.

Yes. I did. Rory you had to pay an extra $7 shipping for the privilege anyway. Something else for people to get irrate about?

So let me get this right for your $77 you get to download 3 albums which will be all over the internet in the couple of days anyway and a tee shirt .

Been here before with the NPGMC debacle .... once bitten .....

Can somebody help me out? I see an option to login but no option to register first. How do you register?

Nobody is mentioning what is on the site, you are all complaining..lol There is another thread for that. This is to tell us what the site looks like. I will not pay for it, so I need some info..lol

Why are you guys whining anyway, you knew the site would be wack. Prince is a millionaire, to him 77 dollars is a small bit.

I am also not surprised that he will charge for 'premium' material, which must mean the vault stuff. 77 dollars and you all still have to pay extra for the vault..lol

2freaky4church1 said:

no, no. 77$ multiplied by 50 thousand + is quite considerable.
there really is nothing on the site that most folk want. The albums. And several videos. SHOE, Sign, Undertaker, Leno etc Not that many though. And their quality is shit. 1990 style. Thats it, a few unbelievably tacky photoshop images. I mean first year college stuff. Utter crap. And the site is NOT 3d. A couple of moving bad 2D plane elements and a tiny bit of flash. The only slightly modern element is the video section, which is laid out like a ball. This has been done on loads of sites before, and in a better fashion. The 3 'worlds' are photoshop montages with a few clickable bits thrown in. The Bria one has to be seen to be believed, graphically it's the cheapest, nastiest bit of design I've sen for quite a while. And I don't mind the covers!

Utter utter rubbish.

expensive rubbish.

I'm very dissapointed. Epic Fail. The site isn't even secure?

Doozer said:

Thank you

FunkyPhresh said:

Hold up!!! Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait one damn minute! Y'all put y'all credit card information onto a transaction page that was not secure??? There was no lock in the bottom right hand corner? Oh shit!!!!

Rorywan said:

So you're paying $77 for a YEAR's subscription, but you want everything that $77 includes on the very first day?!? WTF are you going to have to look forward to, besides tickets, then?

First Impressions

Ley me qualify first. I wm a webmaster. I have owned my own webspace and domain for quite some time now. So I'm not as critical on the tech issues because I've experienced them.. I've seen them... I know how that goes.

In fact a lot of peeps should have had issues in the past when HQ or the Org would get a sudden rush of people logging on and you couldn't access the site for awhile. ie Shit happens.

The Positives
- The three albums as promised... Both Prince albums included a track not available on thhe Target CD release.
.

Ok much better today.

My review of the site:

Content - All three albums stream and you can download tham either in Mp3 (320 kps) or wav. I suggest Mp3 as the wav file is a little tricky for some and 320 kps is a great bit rate.

You also get a T-Shirt. Access to tix through your account(there were some last night for 77 each...I did not buy)

There is also a place where you can get to video content and pictures. Apparently there is some rare footage. They all stream and you can't down load them. I was unable to watch due to the choppyness, that I am attributing to the high traffic last night. They are all arranged in an orb like structure that's hard to navigate.

Hard to navigate. I think it sums up the site pretty well. I had feared he might do this and not make it straight forward ala the Myst type of things I was hearing about the site. I can imagine that the only ones who will endure this is the Fans. Casual fans will be very very confused. For 77 bucks some things should be straightforward like... Where to download the albums and where to sign up or tix. Other issues..

First off having the site unlock with clues? This will turn away any casual fan as they won't know how to unlock the site.

Second, the browser issue! Seems like you need to use certain type of browser to get it to work and you got to clear out that cache to sign up. I have noticed that if I exit my browser, I am unable to get back in...or it very hard to do so, like it still thinks you are in there.

Third, It's difficult to find the albums if you don't know what you are looking for. FOr 77 bucks, I want to get my $$$ worth right away and was freaking out because the site was all glitchy.

My verdict....wait til the site gets more stable. You're not missing out on any extra content because it's not working proper. Get the disks at target if you need the music. Sorry, until there is a tour announced, I can't recommend spending 77 on what's there now. Unlike the others, I think we will get more content for free. 77 is pretty steep for 3 CD's and access to tix you gotta buy anyway. It may be streaming, but I think some audio nuggets will turn up for download.
[Edited 3/25/09 7:59am]

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

I just went over there to see this for myself. That page that asks for your credit card information is not secure. There is no way in hell, I'd have put my credit card info in there. Y'all are crazy, for real! All it'll take is a hacker with a little bit of skill and patience and y'all are hit!

BigDaddyHQ said:

Which tracks from the albums won't be on the Target release?

Ok much better today.

My review of the site:

Content - All three albums stream and you can download tham either in Mp3 (320 kps) or wav. I suggest Mp3 as the wav file is a little tricky for some and 320 kps is a great bit rate.

You also get a T-Shirt. Access to tix through your account(there were some last night for 77 each...I did not buy)

There is also a place where you can get to video content and pictures. Apparently there is some rare footage. They all stream and you can't down load them. I was unable to watch due to the choppyness, that I am attributing to the high traffic last night. They are all arranged in an orb like structure that's hard to navigate.

Hard to navigate. I think it sums up the site pretty well. I had feared he might do this and not make it straight forward ala the Myst type of things I was hearing about the site. I can imagine that the only ones who will endure this is the Fans. Casual fans will be very very confused. For 77 bucks some things should be straightforward like... Where to download the albums and where to sign up or tix. Other issues..

First off having the site unlock with clues? This will turn away any casual fan as they won't know how to unlock the site.

Second, the browser issue! Seems like you need to use certain type of browser to get it to work and you got to clear out that cache to sign up. I have noticed that if I exit my browser, I am unable to get back in...or it very hard to do so, like it still thinks you are in there.

Third, It's difficult to find the albums if you don't know what you are looking for. FOr 77 bucks, I want to get my $$$ worth right away and was freaking out because the site was all glitchy.

My verdict....wait til the site gets more stable. You're not missing out on any extra content because it's not working proper. Get the disks at target if you need the music. Sorry, until there is a tour announced, I can't recommend spending 77 on what's there now. Unlike the others, I think we will get more content for free. 77 is pretty steep for 3 CD's and access to tix you gotta buy anyway. It may be streaming, but I think some audio nuggets will turn up for download.
[Edited 3/25/09 7:59am]

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

The browser should have statedy "https://" at the top when the info was put in.

Ok much better today.

My review of the site:

Content - All three albums stream and you can download tham either in Mp3 (320 kps) or wav. I suggest Mp3 as the wav file is a little tricky for some and 320 kps is a great bit rate.

You also get a T-Shirt. Access to tix through your account(there were some last night for 77 each...I did not buy)

There is also a place where you can get to video content and pictures. Apparently there is some rare footage. They all stream and you can't down load them. I was unable to watch due to the choppyness, that I am attributing to the high traffic last night. They are all arranged in an orb like structure that's hard to navigate.

Hard to navigate. I think it sums up the site pretty well. I had feared he might do this and not make it straight forward ala the Myst type of things I was hearing about the site. I can imagine that the only ones who will endure this is the Fans. Casual fans will be very very confused. For 77 bucks some things should be straightforward like... Where to download the albums and where to sign up or tix. Other issues..

First off having the site unlock with clues? This will turn away any casual fan as they won't know how to unlock the site.

Second, the browser issue! Seems like you need to use certain type of browser to get it to work and you got to clear out that cache to sign up. I have noticed that if I exit my browser, I am unable to get back in...or it very hard to do so, like it still thinks you are in there.

Third, It's difficult to find the albums if you don't know what you are looking for. FOr 77 bucks, I want to get my $$$ worth right away and was freaking out because the site was all glitchy.

My verdict....wait til the site gets more stable. You're not missing out on any extra content because it's not working proper. Get the disks at target if you need the music. Sorry, until there is a tour announced, I can't recommend spending 77 on what's there now. Unlike the others, I think we will get more content for free. 77 is pretty steep for 3 CD's and access to tix you gotta buy anyway. It may be streaming, but I think some audio nuggets will turn up for download.
[Edited 3/25/09 7:59am]