udo said:

Let me rephrase...what good does that do the average Lotusflow3r member, who doesn't know shit about how websites are built?

Genesia said:

please who would want to download any of that shit now anyway?

either you were interested enough in them to grab them when the site was
still active, or you didn't care one bit and don't do so now.

i mean, why would anyone want to visit that orb now and start downloading
a 7th generation vhs copy of "the sacrifice of victor" or a grainy choked
up version of the "paisley park" video? it was an atrocity to have to sit
through them once, when the site was still new and somewhat gimmicky, but
it's a whole other thing to download that shit and sit through it again.

IstenSzek said:

Wow - overthink much?

I wasn't implying that I wanted to do any of that. I just asked what good knowing that the xml was still there would do the average person.

udo said:

Thanks, that's good info. It tells some how they can still access features they paid for.

And it might even be a sign that the site isn't dead for good.

Again, thanks.

Genesia said:

no no no stop, i wasn't snapping at you or anything.

reading it back, it does look that way, but it was
a comment directed at Udo.

sorry

IstenSzek said:

Genesia said:

I have 2 words 4 Prince:

RELEASE IT!

Giovanni777 said:

I think he already did.

Just a quick observation here, but a good sign that this is intentional is the fact that the music fades out as the orb disappears.

Question 4 all:

How many times have U clicked the orb?

This is like classic Prince suspense...




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[Edited 3/25/10 13:20pm]

you notice that when you type in the URL, it re-directs to https://www.lotusflow3r.com/th3b0mb.html again, like it did before it started?

how appropriate

Giovanni777 said:

Oh for crying out loud! It's classic Prince alright but suspense it ain't!

Suspense would have been putting something up days or even weeks ago, that let y'all KNOW that year 2 was about to begin and something, anything NEW for the money you were about to be charged was on the way!

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

I hear that, and it looks it doesn't matter anyway with the news that there will be no 2nd year.

databank said:

I wish I could be as optimistic about what's coming, but I really doubt anything will happen. No biggie for me. I paid for a year and got a year (though if what I got was worth the money is debatable). However, not everyone joined on day 1, and anyone who only got 6 or 9 months of site access got screwed more than the rest of us.

PicassoFace said:

How did the people who only got 6 or 9 months get screwed? Seriously. All they had to do was visit this forum to find a lot of people who thought membership wasn't worth the price. If they disregarded all that and bit anyway...

daPrettyman said:

Wasn't it originally stated in the t&C's that it was an auto-renew subsciption ?
If that is the case - you WERE notified - when you joined.

Genesia said:

Well, my point was simply that they paid for a year of access, meaning they should have been able to log in to the site for 365 days, only to find no new content. We all know that most of us who signed up on day one still feel like we got screwed, but I'm beating a dead horse stating the obvious here.

even if he put something awsme on the site.. what good is it now?



that project was bunk from day one

Good riddance.

Graycap23 said:

Genesia said:

Yea, he released his bowels all over us.

Graycap23 said:

it's true tho. better to not have the site there at all anymore
than have it be there and keep thinking "perhaps some day soon,
there may be something new on there".

now that it's gone we can count our losses and move on.

IstenSzek said:

True. Let's face it. Who here really went there anyway, once we'd seen everything we needed to see and hear? Plus the site was a disease for Prince, nothing but complaints. What's on the net everywhere buffers instantly and my guess is Prince will start popping up all over the place, like he has been in recent months.

IstenSzek said:

But he makes it sound like it was some District 9 hovering spacecraft over his city/browser

like it was this omnipotent object always in his view

xlr8r said:

It is bloody cheeky to get to the site, have the galaxy and then it shys away like an underwater plant, the moment you touch it! I think the message is

HANDS OFF!

xlr8r said:

I'm wondering about the people who joined lotusflow3r.com late spring and summer last year... they paid but didn't get a full year 2 appreciate the site, I wonder if they can get credit card refunds. This is tragic that the site is now gone (or possibly being re-vamped); once again, Prince has no official site.

^^^^ you don't need 9 months to appreciate that site, you could do it an afternoon!




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MadeUpName said:

I'm thinking the only people that got charged were the people who signed up in the first few days. I may be wrong.

bigd74 said:

or 10 minutes