Anyone like to make a list of what's actually on the site once you sign up?

Sounds like:
Tickets for this weeks shows (you have to extra pay for?)
Some videos?
The 3 albums for download in WAV or MP3
A T-Shirt? Is that true, or just the first 100 people or something?

Anything else?

a headache?

what you actually get is

the three albums, which are very nice.

artwork and lyrics for the albums, well just lyrics, artwork is non existing imo

a bunch of "exclusive" pictures which are ALL from the 21 nights book

a bunch of video's, some of which are nice and new (like 2 leno outtakes) but
most of which are just the same old promo vids we've all seen or live stuff
from the brits, superbowl halftime, a clip from coachella and the entire vid
of the sacrifice of victor (with japanese subtitles).

all in all it's not very much right now. there will probably be more at a
later date but this far it's quite disappointing to be honest.

no "exclusive, might never be available again after the first week" stuff
that was hinted at.

no pictures of old album artwork outtake pictures etc

no real artwork for the new albums

the vids are all streams. would be nice to have at least mp3 files of the
vids for superbowl etc. but no.

no retail section (yet)

actually, if you've downloaded the albums, this entire new galaxy is very
close to the real outer space: dark and empty

So am I reading this right?

No hard copies of the album?
No crimson and clover?
No chance to gettickets unless you were lucky enough for the site to work in the first 5 mins?
No high res vids?
No downloadable vids?
No exclusive pics, just 21 night pics?
A tee shirt that you have to pay shipping on, and they won't ship to Europe?

And the kiss video all chopped up on a screen the size of a postage stamp?

Way to go Prince! You did it again!

Expect a torrent of abuse!

For $84 so far I have received;

A T-shirt purchase which I shall get in 4-8 weeks!
Availability to listen / download the three albums which could be purchased for 1/6th of the pice (or free) next week. (I can't get the downloads to work but I can download them!).
Some pictures that I'm not too interested.
A nightmare of a website, that is clunky, slow and hard to work.

I do hope there is more to come, I am sure there is, this is Prince after all lol .....

SquirrelMeat said:

that is correct

i didn't even want the damn tshirt. i think you could cancel the tshirt but
they made it so unclear that i just put in my size and ordered it anyway.

it said: "what size do you want? S-M-L-XL etc or just chose "NONE" but that
might mean they simply send you whatever size they have left, lol.

so i just picked medium. lord knows i will never wear it. i'm not gonna be
walking around in the summer with his gaudy artwork on my chest promoting
this (up until now) lackluster website.

IstenSzek said:

you choose NONE to opt out of the free shirt, it said that

ZombieKitten said:

ah ok, my bad. i should have gone with my gut feeling and canceled it

IstenSzek said:

I can't figure out how to access the video section. If someone can tell me how to, I thank you in advance.

IstenSzek said:

but I don't think it was worded clearly enough for non-english speakers, not really

Least you might get some of your membership back on eBay for the T-Shirt!

Putmarroussia said:

you have to click on prince's "head" in the middle world, the one
where you also get the lotusflower album.

click on that head and a new screen appears with a frame work orb
that has all the videofiles and pictures revolving.

To be honest, nothing to swear about.

My $77,00= need something more interesting to fly to P.

IstenSzek said:

Many thanks!

No forum?

tell you what... paypal me 7 bucks, and i'll give ya the poor man's version of lotusflow3r.com. it involves mailing you a stale crunchberry and gives you EXCLUSIVE right to bang your head against the wall for a few hours.

prince done fucked it up again

cborgman said:

What do you bet there will be an email push and new half hearted promises before long to try and boost the low membership!?

You've paid for the entire year, lots of folks had trouble getting in but once you're in it's NICE!

I think the alternate songs on Prince's 2 albums are a big draw. These alternate albums might be the things that are "1-week-only". ??

Other than that, the only reason I joined was advance ticket sales if/when he comes to Detroit (and he ALWAYS comes to Detroit on a tour).

I'm sure there will be a music store section too, just not yet.

Dayclear said:

Yeah, I didn't expect EVERYTHING to be available on Day One either.

Dayclear said:

What we've done is paid for the right to pay for more material when he feels like it. Nothing available on the site warrants paying 77$.

so no archive/vault material....hmmmmm

I think it's a beautiful site. Once you have picked up how to navigate around the site, it looks really cool - can't wait to get home from work and have a look round! Very snazzy!

If this is the 1st day, imagine what it will be like once the teething problems have been fixed....should be awesome!

Soooo much potential.

Rorywan said:

So far, we've had less than one day, or about $0.21 worth. I'd say that I've had value for money so far. What the rest of the year olds remains to be seen and I'll wait for a while before I go declaring whether I've had $77 worth or not. Obviously I haven't had it yet, but did anyone really expect to get $77 worth of stuff in the first 12 hours?

ZombieKitten said:

or screwed.

cborgman said:

All that seems to be a true failure!

$77?

Sorry it will be without me!!

I must admit to being disappointed Crimson and Clover is not on the download version of lotus flow3r. I love that song. I have already got it on mp3 but a wav version as part of my initial membership would have been nice.

TheEnglishGent said:

Why wouldn't you, he damn sure expected all 77.00 worth of your money?

Ok so yes its very very slow and things are going wrong on the site but this is the 1st day, everyones going to be on it. Also $77 isnt bad for the whole Year! We got ages to see what happens and im sure it'l be worth it all wen ur at the front row of a Prince show

Im sure there gona sort out the problem coz there bound to have emails telling them. So sit back for a bit its gonna get better

By the way the lotus Flower setting makes a great background for ur phone if u take a photo of it on the screen lol!