I Need help being convinced to join the site. Do you guys think that it's worth it? Is there a lot of stuff you can get for paying the $77?

Thanks

Well you can get a free T-shirt, good seats if he's in concert i did and download the 3 cd set free.. but im still waitin to see if something else is going to happen on this new web site ... i will get back @ you on that one

TiMix said:

Honest...
Now that they have worked out the kinks and bugs, YES...it is now worth joining IMO.
The first few days were tricky. The site had much potential but the high volume was killing it.
Now, it is sweet! I actually emailed them (LotusFlow3r support) about not being able to correctly download the albums, and they were professional, prompt, and very helpful when they emailed me back!
I got emails where there were more tickets available for Leno (although I could not go due to living so far away from LA).
But knowing that I get notified about tickets and will have first dibs at them is worth it for me...the other stuff helps even more!
The videos are great and I feel they will be adding more stuff as it goes.

Is it worth $77 today? Probably not. But you're paying for a year and who knows what will come. I paid and don't regret it and I'm sure there'll be some cool stuff throughout the year that will make it worth $77.

Personally I like the fact that I am watching Prince videos and live footage on his own website, where I should be watching the stuff. Hopefully he will continue releasing footage on there and the bootleggers will have nowhere to go.

I love the Coachella vids, Guitar on Leno, I Would Die 4 U w/Sheila E., etc.

U could either join now or join when you have more of a reason to join. I just wanted to hear the new music. I got about 7 or 8 really good new Prince songs and a few live videos that I had not seen before plus this t-shirt coming soon. In my opinion, totally worth it.

dont do it!!!!

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[Edited 1/2/10 1:51am]

drgoldsmoke said:

Yeah, that gives proper explanation.

They need to update it soon.

I'm not happy that we didn't get the full proper version of the album lotusflow3r.

The Morning after should have been an extra, where is the exculsive content?

It needs more videos and less pictures, I do think we've all been misled, why didn't they say it will be full pictures from the book and the album will not include the lead single.

The new music is great but the new site ain't worth the money so far and I would hope for far more out of it over the year, but I don't think we'll see much more.

The problem i think is that for now we absolutely don't know if Prince will ever start a world tour. If not, for european like me 1/3 of the site is totally useless, and considering that you can buy the physical cd 77$ are worth it just for a bunch of videos?

TiMix said:

If you've already seen most of his publicly released videos and VHS releases over the years, I don't think you're going to find a lot of content.

If that stuff's all new to you, then this is a chance to watch a lot of it for one fixed price without trying to track it all down individually.

mushmackalenta said:

Right now, the site is more of a solar system, not a galaxy. I'd say it needs a minimum of 10x more content before I'd tell my friends 2 join. It needs the rare videos and exclusive downloads like we got with npgmc.com. We need a store with exclusive merchandise.

Most of the photos are from 21 Nights, but no mention about that release and where 2 get it. Sure, we get the "Crimson & Clover" video, but not the audio track itself. Perhaps they'll surprise us and send us the physical CD with "Crimson & Clover" on it when they send us our lotusflow3r T-shirts, that would be a nice thing 2 do.

$11.98 vs. $77 ... I think I'd recommend buying the CD at Target and waiting 2 join lotusflow3r until U read on here that some new content has been made available. Perhaps U have a friend who joined, so U could take a peak at the site 2 get a feel. Try before U buy.

MadeUpName said:

well put post.
Right now, the site is more of a solar system, not a galaxy.

I agree,it reminds me somewhat of musicplasma or liveplasma a music site that has been around for some years.


Do u guys think this site http://www.liveplasma.com/ is a bit like lotusflow3r.com i found this site back in the early 00's when the url was still musicplasma type in an artist for example and watch the planets span out in relation.
[Edited 3/30/09 21:45pm]

This is a PR car crash of a site....I did not join because £54 is alot of money at the moment and other fan site charge alot less for alot more so could not work out were the $77 price tag came from .....

This is sad that in 2009 website projects like this are not tested ....i mean Scott has the prince.org users he could have run a test online with orgers in the months from jan to march to make sure it works live....

If most of the content that's up on the site at the moment is stuff you can get online or on the high street that should have formed the basis of the test site...who gonna try and steal Purple Rain or Kiss of the website so he could have tested :

1. Downloads
2. Video
3. Pictures ...easy
4. Set up 20 users to do Credit Card transactions for T-shirts to make sure that worked and was secure.....

Very bad planning....Prince is no web designer but he does employee these people so does need to take a small amount of blame...

TiMix said:

The bottom line is this...

If you look at the $77.00 as a one day shop'bonanza and want every thing up front to feel validated in spending the money... then you will be dis-appointed and it won't be worth it too you. Thia is the pessimistic view of the site shared by the cynics. They keep saying they want to know what they will get blah blah blah

If you are optimistic and look at the $77.000 as a 'yearly subscription'... which it is... you wasn't expecting 'everything' up front to begin with. You were expecting a steady influx of quality material which was otherwise unavailable. Sure some things may be hovering around out there for free or in a lesser quality... but fans have always said that if Prince officially made things available... then the need for bootlegs and such wouldn't be there.

A realest understands that the value of a $77.00 subscription can't really be measured until after the year is up and he can look back and see what he actually got.

Personally... I think its a good investment because I understand that it was not $$77 based on everything being available all at once upfront... but rather a decent amount of material up front with a steady stream of new material stretched out over a year.

My $6.42 for this month got me
- 3 new albums in both maxed out mp3 and lossless wave format which included web only tracks
- The Sacrifice of Victor (45 min video)
- Three previously unreleased Caochella vids
- Some very good quality versions of several videos I already had.
- A lot of pics I didn't have (never bought the book)
- And just the satisfaction of being supportive to my fav artist. Hopefully enough of us have been supportive and out number the bitchers and complainers and will encourage him to release more of the many gems he has.

Next month.. I'll see what another $6.42 gets me... and so on for the rest of the year.

I don't need to be convinced to join. I'd love to join but for the $77.00 up front. It would be great if they charged your card in monthly increments, I could probably get away with that! Just can't pull of the entire amount. Wha! "Fan without Funds"

As of this moment, I'd suggest holding on to that $77.

I'll post what I posted on another thread earlier today. If you live in SoCal (since it seems he's gonna be hangin in LA for awhile), I think its very worth it to join for the reasons below:

Cost of two tickets:

Lotusflow3r $154
Ticketmaster $196

Hmmmmm....which one seems better?

You saved $42 right there so that $77 membership fee has now dwindled down to $35. I have no problem paying $35 for first dibs on fantastic seats, early entrance to shows, pics, videos, music downloads, lyrics, access to merchandise and any other cool things he decides to add to the site.

I paid $100/year for NPGMC and would do it again in a second. I got fantastic seats to many shows thru NPGMC as well as tons of downloads, merchandise, and other really awesome stuff. Plus, met many nice fans as well.

If Lotusflow3r only lasts one year, so be it