RS changes

[Burnsy]

I have no idea about this new system... I have 12000 Free Rapid points, 0 Premium Rapid points and from somewhere I've gotten 2375 'Rapids'

What exactly can I do/am I meant to do with those 12k Free Rapid points?

[Funkin']

It's most likely that your points will disappear come july 6th.

That's bullshit. I don't know why I'm surprised though, RS has always been a shady file hoster to me. So I definitely won't be using them anymore when my Rapids run out until they change to something else.

Thanks for the info. And to the others that replied also.

[supertom44]

I have to say I've been a long time fan of rapidshare, I used to shout its praise when ever I got the chance.

But they have seriously messed up this time, the new system is just bollox, simple as.

I most certainly wont be renewing my account with them and will look into getting a premium account with a different hosting service now.

This could well be the death of rapidshare for warez, and if that happens you have to think it would be the death of rapidshare, I imagine the vast majority of there income comes from people joining to download warez.

[diaoooo]

i just doubt that whether it is a good choice to do that, though i would always keep myself as a "Free User".

[Aristocles]

Rot

[anon]

Edit.

[becomehokage]

BS i still use rs premium...

[Funkin']

They changed again. Somehow they think this is supposed to be better:

http://www.rapidshare.com/news.html

Hopefully soon they will just revert back to their old system. I saw nothing wrong with it.

EDIT: Actually this new change does look quite a bit better(if I'm understanding it correctly). According to their news page, 99 rapids will get your 30GB of downloading for a month. And according to their premium page 400 rapids only cost a few dollars(converted to US dollars, looks something like $6). So if I'm understaning this correctly, 400 rapids will get you around 120GB worth of downloading for a month?

And if you don't use up all of that 120GB, it will just roll over to the next month?

Hopefully I'm assuming correctly, because this isn't too bad.

[A]

I use RS to grab relatively old stuff.As long as the database of RS dosent get destroyed,I wont stop using RS,and yea the revision looks better.

[Quarterquack]

Well, do I still get to transfer 120GB of data per day? To be honest that was my first and foremost reason for even considering rapids a good move; I was effectively rid of any caps they can enforce on me.

I was overjoyed, as I have a queue of about 140GBs of files on RS, and with my old premium account I could only grab 5-8GB per day.