Aside from the fact that changing web addresses every year makes really bad business sense, i.e. 1800newfunk.com, npgmusiclub.com, 3121.com, etc., there is no way that he will stick with the lotusflow3r.com website once his next project is ready. Maybe all we get is the one year and then he moves on to the next website, which adds more uncertainty to fans about what we are getting for $77.

I just hope those jellyfish get given to a nice aquarium or something.

KeithyT said:

No offense but the site hasn't even opened yet and you're talking about if or when it's going to close. I understand the pessimism (I don't know if I spelt it right ) that's going into this site but I'm going to go with the flow, be optimistic and enjoy it for however long it stays open.

KeithyT said:

Oh Lawd!!!

I don't know but he better now tour and start spouting his shit about-"you better join the club if you want the good seat"!

BITCH.... I buy all you cds and tickets to the shows. Don't start acting like the only real fans are the ones that "join the club". Thats just fuckin' greedy. I hated that shit in 2002.

There's no guarantee you,me or prince will still be around in one year so why not take it as it comes?!
[Edited 3/17/09 10:23am]

It will become Lotusflow4r

Dayclear said:

Because our decision to join the club depends on whether it is a one year deal that will dissipate after a few months or if it is something that will be maintained for the long term. Fans are more willing to spend money for a membership if they know there is an incentive to keep the site running for the long term because the owner of the site has an incentive to ensure that the product is good for the duration of the membership in order to encourage renewals and new memberships the following year.

If it is just a one year site, then the owner of the site has no incentive to invest any resources into the site after the intial sign-up period has ended. We all know that we are going to get lots of goodies over the next 6 months. What happens for the last 6 months? If the decision is made to go in a new direction in 2010, then we will get screwed, despite the initial hype.

I'm all on board. I'm just raising these concerns because a lot of people feel the same way.

LOOK...The membership is $77 for 1 (ONE) year.
If you want to join, You can enter your credit card info on March 24, 2009.
If not, don't worry (about what the masses think).
You can always still come here to ORG to get all your Prince info.
However, i will see everybody else at LOTUSFLOW3r.com!!!!!

freedomequality said:

metallicjigolo said:

well said....

Are u people satisfied with anything?

Good point. To maximize value, I will join from Day 1. And whatever I can get off the site, I will make DAMN sure I have hardcopy backups.

Graycap23 said:

Yeah, but I'm still kind of bummed out that I "bought" stuff off NPGMC that I can't get to any more.

Lets See.. If 200k people sign up for $77. Thats about 15mil for the year. Not Bad. And I know World wide he has more then 200k fans. Good Business if you ask me.. who needs record labels.

donnyenglish said:

You forgot Love4OneAnother and NPGOnlineLTD.

That only drives your point home more!

RodeoSchro said:

Amen to that. Seriously - I have 3 CDs worth of files that are useless. That is why I'm hoping the stuff he releases is DRM-free.

amorbella said:

I'lle see u there, pointless keeping that dosh in the bank!much better place to be than with jacko ,which is where most other people are throwing their £££

SANSKER7 said:

donnyenglish said:

All you can do is join, don't join or just wait and see what happens. That's just about it.
[Edited 3/17/09 16:05pm]

freedomequality said:

We've never had guarantees of anything...so why worry about it this time around?
Enjoy while you can....life's too short to ponder about what will happen a year from now.

anyone who doesn't want to join should just enjoy what will be available via bit torrent..


and the peeps who want to join.. get the cards ready.


win/win/win
[Edited 3/17/09 21:04pm]

What happens after one year to any given Prince project?

LaLaLAHeHEHE said:

Let's see if 200k people start leeching during that first week.
That is 1190 per hour if evenly spread.
Let's say they will want to get 75% of all content that he has online in the first week, say 2Gbytes. (just half a DVD so nothing much)
Now imagine similar peaks of data during the rest of the 1st year.

You do the math on how much of that `15mil` remains if you want a smoothly running site.