Rapidshare becomes a bit of a laughing stock

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6 days after the infinitely confusing change in package structure Rapidshare headlines there website with 'RapidShare listens and acts: One package for all users'...

It's quite funny, but a testament to the power of negative feedback. I guess every forum littered with comments about how they were going to cancel their accounts scared RapidShare into an immediate change. I wonder how long this one will last?

To anyone that cares. As of the 1st of July Rapidshare changed it's structure, the original set up was you paid for a certain amount of months, and was limited to 5GB a day with a maximum daily rollover of up to 25GB for bandwidth not used. The new structure however was based around the purchase of 'rapids', with a tier structure as follows:

400 rapids = 4.99
2000 rapids = 19.99
etc

You could then switch your package daily depending on how much traffic you wished to use, for example...

1GB = Used 4 rapids a day
5GB = Used 20 rapids a day
etc

Bit confused? Well it's not to difficult to understand. But difficult enough that the internet stood up and gave a big middle finger to rapidshare.

So now... It's a simple one package. RapidPro, which keeps the same costs for rapids, and drains 99 a month for 30gb of download bandwidth... any extra must be purchased as so -

Additional storage: Additional traffic:
1 GB = 2 Rapids/month 5 GB = 14 Rapids

To be honest - It's all a bit of a feck up, some ploy to appear to be in the customers best interests but to actually make more money for rapidshare. It's really backfired... I wonder how long it till be before a new system comes out?
 
DouLou said:
6 days after the infinitely confusing change in package structure Rapidshare headlines there website with 'RapidShare listens and acts: One package for all users'...

It's quite funny, but a testament to the power of negative feedback. I guess every forum littered with comments about how they were going to cancel their accounts scared RapidShare into an immediate change. I wonder how long this one will last?

To anyone that cares. As of the 1st of July Rapidshare changed it's structure, the original set up was you paid for a certain amount of months, and was limited to 5GB a day with a maximum daily rollover of up to 25GB for bandwidth not used. The new structure however was based around the purchase of 'rapids', with a tier structure as follows:

400 rapids = 4.99
2000 rapids = 19.99
etc

You could then switch your package daily depending on how much traffic you wished to use, for example...

1GB = Used 4 rapids a day
5GB = Used 20 rapids a day
etc

Bit confused? Well it's not to difficult to understand. But difficult enough that the internet stood up and gave a big middle finger to rapidshare.

So now... It's a simple one package. RapidPro, which keeps the same costs for rapids, and drains 99 a month for 30gb of download bandwidth... any extra must be purchased as so -

Additional storage: Additional traffic:
1 GB = 2 Rapids/month 5 GB = 14 Rapids

To be honest - It's all a bit of a feck up, some ploy to appear to be in the customers best interests but to actually make more money for rapidshare. It's really backfired... I wonder how long it till be before a new system comes out?
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That part is where I got lost. Don't understand any of that.
 
They should just go back to how it originally was, before all these Rapids or whatever.

It was better when you could just download whatever, and got Points for extending you're account or people downloading your stuff, and then use those points to get free accounts.
 
decorativeed said:
That part is where I got lost. Don't understand any of that.
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The current cost of rapids are as follows -

400 Rapids 4,99 €
1000 Rapids 9,95 €
2000 Rapids 19,90 €
5000 Rapids 49,75 €
20000 Rapids 199,00 €

Basically, the current and only package drains 99 rapids a month, and allows you 30GB of download traffic.

During that month, if you exceed your 30GB allowance then you can purchase 5GB for 14 rapids.

It's all a bit silly really.
 
All a bit silly, but is now much cheaper for my usage, I was fuming when they made the switch earlier.
 
DouLou said:
The current cost of rapids are as follows -

400 Rapids 4,99 €
1000 Rapids 9,95 €
2000 Rapids 19,90 €
5000 Rapids 49,75 €
20000 Rapids 199,00 €

Basically, the current and only package drains 99 rapids a month, and allows you 30GB of download traffic.

During that month, if you exceed your 30GB allowance then you can purchase 5GB for 14 rapids.

It's all a bit silly really.
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So basically 4,99 € gets you 137GB of bandwidth to use in a month?
 
decorativeed said:
So basically 4,99 € gets you 137GB of bandwidth to use in a month?
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Yeah that sounds about right. Not bad really, but the question is why did RapidShare feel the need to change it?

I guess it all comes down to profits really....
 
Seems pretty good for me. i'm guessing the rapids won't expire?

My use is quite sporadic, I will download 50 odd gigs in a couple of weeks and then wouldn't use it for months, so I used to only buy a one month subscription 3 or 4 times a year and give out my password to others when I had finished. it seems that now I will only need 1 or 2 a year and at a cheaper rate.
 
Used Rapidshare for a while...then got sick of my account being phished and having to E-Mail them to get my account password changed every other week.

Not sure what to make of that system mentioned above.

Use MegaUpload now and I'm much happier with it.
 
I'm confused. I just pay for a year long subscription and then use it to download stuff
 
noodlehair said:
I'm confused. I just pay for a year long subscription and then use it to download stuff
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I don't know who came up with this pricing model. I pay for 6 months at a go at around 30 euros and only just go over 30gb a month. Now for 20 euros you get 2000 rapids which works out to be 20 months at my current download rate.

This must be the cheapest premium file hosting package on the net, even for heavier users.

I'm certain they will up the base 99 rapids per month. They've gone from one extreme to another in the space of a week. Slightly worrying.
 
Actually I think it makes sense. The word will get around regarding the low price, a lot will jump ship then depending on what competitors do, Rapidshare can up that 99 base rate to something that comes close to a competitive package.
 
:lol: I'm a tard I know.

Don't worry, it's back up and running. Stupid wankers.
 
Massive massive feck up this..

know why?

Cause there's no rewarding for uploading anymore.....If there's no points for hosting or uploading files which people download, who's going to bother uploading stuff?

If anything, now they're charging you for hosting files which others might download and give rapidshare traffic?

Put it this way..

no uploading rewards means no uploaders..no uploaders means no files..no files means no one can download shit..

And this is coming from someone who's been using rapidshare for the last 5 years or so! So pissed.
 
zain said:
Massive massive feck up this..

know why?

Cause there's no rewarding for uploading anymore.....If there's no points for hosting or uploading files which people download, who's going to bother uploading stuff?

If anything, now they're charging you for hosting files which others might download and give rapidshare traffic?

Put it this way..

no uploading rewards means no uploaders..no uploaders means no files..no files means no one can download shit..

And this is coming from someone who's been using rapidshare for the last 5 years or so! So pissed.
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Aye, that's exactly what I was worried about.
 
zain said:
Massive massive feck up this..

know why?

Cause there's no rewarding for uploading anymore.....If there's no points for hosting or uploading files which people download, who's going to bother uploading stuff?

If anything, now they're charging you for hosting files which others might download and give rapidshare traffic?

Put it this way..

no uploading rewards means no uploaders..no uploaders means no files..no files means no one can download shit..

And this is coming from someone who's been using rapidshare for the last 5 years or so! So pissed.
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I've always wanted to contribute more to forums by uploading stuff, but when I've tried to, it takes an absolute age for even a small file. I just gave up.

Are happy hours no more on Rapidshare then?
 
zain said:
Cause there's no rewarding for uploading anymore.....If there's no points for hosting or uploading files which people download, who's going to bother uploading stuff?
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I can only imagine that it would be a matter of time before they issue an uploading policy. No incentives seem like a bad business decision. The only argument for this that I can think of is that it reduces the amount of copyright infringing material that's uploaded. But what do they care?
 
Looks like unlimited download Newsgroup subscription is much better value for money. Gotta have them 1080p rips.
 
Aporkalypse said:
Looks like unlimited download Newsgroup subscription is much better value for money. Gotta have them 1080p rips.
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4 questions...

how long do they take?

what newsgroup do you use?

how much is it?

what method of downloading is it?
 
How come when you download something from this site, 90% of the time it doesn't work.

Then the files just end up cluttering your computer.

You may have noticed the 'Co-op games to play with you gf' thread, to which i conlcuded i would give Left for Dead a bash. After half an hour downloading 12 individual parts, I get "part 5 is corrupt" or some bollocks.

Has anyone downloaded any decent games from this site that actually worked? If so which ones, as I want to make use of my new Rapidshare premium account and newly formatted pc, in order to have some cool games to kick back with for me time.

Not music/film as there's rarely a problem with this for me.

I do have an account, and the downloads always finish, it's just they always seem to be found corrupt on extraction If anyone has downloaded any top games as of late, could you post or pm me the links?
 
Chrisjn_ said:
How come when you download something from this site, 90% of the time it doesn't work.

Then the files just end up cluttering your computer.

You may have noticed the 'Co-op games to play with you gf' thread, to which i conlcuded i would give Left for Dead a bash. After half an hour downloading 12 individual parts, I get "part 5 is corrupt" or some bollocks.

Has anyone downloaded any decent games from this site that actually worked? If so which ones, as I want to make use of my new Rapidshare premium account and newly formatted pc, in order to have some cool games to kick back with for me time.

Not music/film as there's rarely a problem with this for me.

I do have an account, and the downloads always finish, it's just they always seem to be found corrupt on extraction If anyone has downloaded any top games as of late, could you post or pm me the links?
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Sometimes the issue could be that your exceeding your download limit and the rar files are cutting off before it's finished?

Failing that - I don't know. I've rarely had problems with games, even ones that exceed 50 or so rar files.
 
DouLou said:
Sometimes the issue could be that your exceeding your download limit and the rar files are cutting off before it's finished?

Failing that - I don't know. I've rarely had problems with games, even ones that exceed 50 or so rar files.
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No, the files are all finished, I just always happen to stumble accross a corrupt file during extraction, which is a massive ballache as it costs you your download limit and time.
 
DouLou said:
Yeah that sounds about right. Not bad really, but the question is why did RapidShare feel the need to change it?

I guess it all comes down to profits really....
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I just purchased the 4.99 one. I think they may have changed it because you are limited to a number of rapids or bandwidth right? So therefore more people will have to sign up, because who wants to hand out there details to a mate (like most people did) and have all there rapids skanked.

This way, everyone who uses it pretty much has to sign up for there own account.
 
Chrisjn_ said:
I just purchased the 4.99 one. I think they may have changed it because you are limited to a number of rapids or bandwidth right? So therefore more people will have to sign up, because who wants to hand out there details to a mate (like most people did) and have all there rapids skanked.

This way, everyone who uses it pretty much has to sign up for there own account.
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Good point, I didn't think of that.

Chrisjn_ said:
No, the files are all finished, I just always happen to stumble accross a corrupt file during extraction, which is a massive ballache as it costs you your download limit and time.
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Yeah, it really is. You must be on an unlucky streak man! I usually have a quick read through any comments just to see if someone mentions a corrupt file.
 
michaelness said:
4 questions...
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how long do they take? It will Max your connection from start to finish.

what newsgroup do you use? Newsgroups themselves vary. My provider is AstraWeb.

how much is it? $15 a month for unlimited speed/downloads or $25 per 180GB if you want to pay by GB usage. news.astraweb.com - Membership Plans

what method of downloading is it? A combination of listing sites like nzbindex, binsearch or nzbmatrix and an awesome little program called SABnzbd which will download, unpack, categorize and delete the debris from your files with minimal input. SABnzbd.org : Home of SABnzbd+, the Full-Auto Newsreader. Using SABnzbd's webserver and an app called myNZB on the iPhone allows me to set stuff downloading from anywhere.
 
Aporkalypse...
another question now from my side..

How quick are the files uploaded let's say in terms of tv shows..

Usually I get Rapidshare links for a tv show say, no later than 5 minutes after a 1 hour episode has finished airing..

Is that the same case here as well? Or do you have to wait an hour or so before a link?

That's what I loved about RS, not its speeds or plans or limits etc..but the fact that, well, its fecking popular...

And if even that's gone due to lack of incentive for people to upload, then what's left?
 
fecking cnuts removed the rapidsmall thingy....that way i would be able to have a premium a/c for 3 decades :lol:
 
zain said:
Aporkalypse...
another question now from my side..

How quick are the files uploaded let's say in terms of tv shows..

Usually I get Rapidshare links for a tv show say, no later than 5 minutes after a 1 hour episode has finished airing..

Is that the same case here as well? Or do you have to wait an hour or so before a link?

That's what I loved about RS, not its speeds or plans or limits etc..but the fact that, well, its fecking popular...

And if even that's gone due to lack of incentive for people to upload, then what's left?
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Actually from what people tell me, newsgroups are the first ones to upload anything. Second hand info though.
 
zain said:
Aporkalypse...
another question now from my side..

How quick are the files uploaded let's say in terms of tv shows..

Usually I get Rapidshare links for a tv show say, no later than 5 minutes after a 1 hour episode has finished airing..

Is that the same case here as well? Or do you have to wait an hour or so before a link?

That's what I loved about RS, not its speeds or plans or limits etc..but the fact that, well, its fecking popular...

And if even that's gone due to lack of incentive for people to upload, then what's left?
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Sorry I missed this Q. Newsgroups are generally the first place that get TV shows etc. but you'll have to do a raw file search (as opposed to human filed reports on places like nzbmatrix)
 
What the hell is up with it now? Completely new site design? Every link I find is already taken down.
 
How do I get the new RS manager? What is it, firstly?
 
Decotron said:
You probably need the new RS manager. Active links dont work with the old version. Happened about a week ago I think.
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Depends what time of day it is I think, most of the links arn't actually down they are just "too busy", if you try them at off peak times they will work. I honestly don't see the point of buying it anymore when most people upload with interchangable links across multiple hosts.
 
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