A Big Thank You From PaulMcCartney.com
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FrankieJ:
Someone has even written a news articles about this!
Yes, FrankieJ Paul McCartney website provokes fan outcry after dropping premium memberships http://www.examiner.com/article/paul-mccartney-website-provokes-fan-outcry-after-dropping-premium-memberships?CID=examiner_alerts_article
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Eeee Cor Blimey:
Maybe Paul's not going to play live much anymore, so decided it was wrong to trick us all into paying for perks that'll never get used?!
Please... don't!
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How do you post on the new site? Seems I've asked this question at the last go round.
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I received my premium membership with the RAM release that came out earlier this year. I had a regular account until then but really enjoyed the perks of premium membership and logged in semi-regularly. It made me want to come back to the site more often. Jukebox was completely awesome. That made Pauls's site stand out from many others. The idea that you could look up virtual any song he did by album and play it from the web (and the standalone app) was brilliant. I discovered more of his music that way. I still buy his stuff regardless of whether it was in Jukebox as I want it on my iPod or want a high quality version. I notice that the notice that HP is no longer powering the content. Is that why some of it is now missing from the website? I am not seeing much additional content to the site....but a bunch of stuff gone (Jukebox, premium content).
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love the new stuff on here!
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I like everything about Paulmccartbey.com, and I miss the premium content too
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I also just got a second email, this one doesn't say anything about premium content or mention of downloads or goodies... About the jukebox though, there is a music player on the site now, isn't that basically the same thing? It seems the same to me, except that you can't have it on your desktop.
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So I paid $60 to be a pioneer, promised certain pioneer benefits, pre sales, access to exclusive content, and none of these things actually materialized. I can live with that, to a certain extent...but then I go onto the crappy new site, and there's NO JUKEBOX!
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How do you leave messages over there now? You are not signed in? :
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walliebaby:
So I paid $60 to be a pioneer, promised certain pioneer benefits, pre sales, access to exclusive content, and none of these things actually materialized. I can live with that, to a certain extent...but then I go onto the crappy new site, and there's NO JUKEBOX!
and I can't leave a message there...again!
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What a farce. Anyone who has paid for Premium content recently has effectively received very little for their money, and deserves a full refund. All of the stuff that made the site interesting, such as the jukebox, has now gone, leaving it much poorer. Various things that were promised a year ago have either failed to materialise, or haven't worked properly - which is fine as long as the site is Beta, and assurances about a free year's access to a fully functioning Premium site are honoured...which, of course, we can now forget about. If the idea was to irritate and/or alienate a large section of Paul's hardcore fanbase, then job done. I suppose I should be thankful that I got 11 months of the year I initially paid for, but, for the first time in over 30 years of being a Paul fan, I can't help feeling ripped off.
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oobu24:
walliebaby:
So I paid $60 to be a pioneer, promised certain pioneer benefits, pre sales, access to exclusive content, and none of these things actually materialized. I can live with that, to a certain extent...but then I go onto the crappy new site, and there's NO JUKEBOX!
and I can't leave a message there...again!
Hate it. It's worse than before! Bring back the beta!
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Totally and utterly ripped off. (
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If Paul comes here and twitter maybe 10 minutes per day I'd be happy. I'm not angry for the money, I didn't pay. I got my premium account from RAM but I was thinking in buy a new one. I just want something to have a premium presale, maybe a kind of premium account only for touring or something like that. Thank you!
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Eeee Cor Blimey:
i never ever logged in and used any of the online perks, i only bought it for the presale access, but the fact that we've now lost that and are back with the mass pack of *everyone* in those useless email codes that never get sent on time etc.. it's wrong I've never got a good seat in that general presale pm.com do, but got good seats for the RAH gig from the premium presale - proof it was worth it.
Well the "old" way of presale codes I managed to get a front row ticket for the RDS Dublin. The membership will not be missed by me at all.
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Sounds like typical lack of forethought or market research. Why not do a small pilot with a few fans to see how they react to the changes first? Somewhat arrogant, no? But the fans will accept/buy anything.... / Jim
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I'm really disappointed that there's no more premium content. Someone mentioned that the site seems to have taken a step backward, and I'd have to agree. I loved having the Jukebox on my desktop so I could listen to Paul at work, at home, etc. I paid for that premium content! Bring it back!
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I was premium fan and now I dont know what am I
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You've got to check your e-mail. Or you can go here: http://maccaboard.paulmccartney.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=85212
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Dufc:
Sounds like typical lack of forethought or market research. Why not do a small pilot with a few fans to see how they react to the changes first? Somewhat arrogant, no? But the fans will accept/buy anything.... / Jim
Agreed,it's all about communication which MPL have shown a stunning lack of over this matter,all it would have taken was an email through the summer to say things maybe weren't going as well as they'd have hoped and changes were afoot but no they drop an email and bingo here we are. I enjoyed the site i was more than happy to resubscribe when the time came about mainly for the jukebox and rude studio aspects of it,let be fair very little had been added since the summer,and of course the gig pre sale aspect of things could have been great though i dont know i didn't get the chance to use it sadly. So no not good enough for me,not good enough by half.