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guvato
Mitglied seit in Jun 2008
37 Beiträge

To those like me who want to be able to buy special event cards (À ceux qui comme moi veulent pouvoir acheter les carte...

Alles über iStripper
23. September 2019, 243 antworten
I've said as much in other threads but:
Games can be fun if presented properly. Scratch Offs and the board games were interesting ideas. Needs a little work, but they can be fun activities.

I don't even mind the existence of exclusive cards, as long as they're TIMED exclusives. Like, Niemira's christmas card. If it becomes available for regular purchase after a certain amount of time (1 year? 2 years?), that would be mildly acceptable, right? You've got your set of people that are pleased because they have something that nobody else does. Yet, after a while, it becomes available to the masses, either at regular or increased cost. We already have a handful of special outfit cards that are higher in price.
Just remember, back at the time of Niemira's special event card (and Alyssa Kent, etc), Totem didn't actually tell us which card was exclusive. At least now they are, so there is a tiny bit of movement in the right direction here.

Or another incentive based idea: Special card becomes available for purchase once you hit triple diamond (or double, or single, whatever). You can jump through the hoops of the game now (like seems to be happening with the new users), and the long time people who would otherwise not get much benefit from these games, have the option to just buy outright.

Just a couple of ideas and thought starters.

In the end though, I just want to be able to buy the bleeping cards that I want. Feel free to substitute your favorite profanity in place of the bleeping.
Corbomite
Mitglied seit in Aug 2015
149 Beiträge

To those like me who want to be able to buy special event cards (À ceux qui comme moi veulent pouvoir acheter les carte...

Alles über iStripper
23. September 2019, 243 antworten
@ComteDracula I share your feelings here, but not your thoughts. Yes, I'd like to own Melena's special event card and I'm disappointed that there's no guaranteed way for me to obtain it, even if I spent thousands of credits. However, I don't believe that Totem is obligated to provide this for their customers, even the most loyal ones, nor do I believe it is necessarily a bad business model.

The SECs make iStripper somewhat similar to "collectable card games" (CCGs) like Magic the Gathering (MtG) or Pokemon. Players buy the base set of cards and can then purchase booster packs containing random cards (12 common, 3 uncommon and 1 rare). Every purchase of a booster pack is basically a gamble. A player could buy crates of booster packs but never get the rare card he wanted, let alone an even rarer foil version of it. MtG has been around for over 25 years, has ~20 million players and has produced over 20 billion cards, yet (to my knowledge) they have never provided customers with a guaranteed way of getting specific rare cards. In fact, they don't even give discounts for long-time, loyal customers like Totem does. Someone who has been playing MtG for 20 years and has spent $10,000 on cards doesn't have any more discount opportunities than the guy who just started playing yesterday.

Totem's introduction of Joker cards sets the stage for many more SECs and gambling games in the future. It's likely we will see SECs for Black Friday and the 2019 advent calendar, with Joker cards being the reward for special scratch cards and BF promotions. Although I have terrible luck at gambling, I still believe iStripper is a good product and a relatively inexpensive form of entertainment.
Number6
Mitglied seit in Oct 2010
3654 Beiträge

To those like me who want to be able to buy special event cards (À ceux qui comme moi veulent pouvoir acheter les carte...

Alles über iStripper
23. September 2019, 243 antworten
I think it would be completely acceptable to increase the price to some absurd amount as an alternative. Could be 500 credits for one card, but at least you are guaranteed to get it and not throw your money down the drain just for the possibility.

I wouldn't object to that but others may. It isn't just the price, it also a matter of trust between those who have the SECs and Totem. Totem said that these would never be available for sale. Many of us jumped through hoops and made significant outlays to obtain those cards because of that statement.

The Melena Card cost me around 250 credits. I would certainly be upset if Totem offered it for sale for any less.

I am a loyal customer who has all the currently available cards (plus a few) who is willing to outlay what I believe is a reasonable amount (to me) where necessary for the SEC cards.

How would it be fair to me (and others who possibly spent more) if Totem were to put these cards on sale for even 2 or 3 times the normal price?

I will admit I do not particularly like the non-defined paths (i.e. scratchcards or slot machine or similar) to getting SECs. In this case my biggest grumble wasn't the actual cost (I was prepared to go higher) it was having to scratch 450 scratchcards to get there. It became mind numbingly boring after a while.

If they want to continue with the games of chance with SECs perhaps Totem should offer the current SEC card for the game either for sale at say 350 credits or you can take your chance with the Scratchcards. The sale would only last as long as the promotion (1 week). The Card would then be retired permanently from sale and become a chance win in future games.

Just my thoughts.

Google translate

Je ne m'y opposerais pas, mais d'autres le peuvent. Ce n'est pas seulement le prix, c'est aussi une question de confiance entre ceux qui ont les SEC et Totem. Totem a déclaré que ceux-ci ne seraient jamais disponibles à la vente. Beaucoup d'entre nous ont sauté à travers des cerceaux et ont fait des dépenses importantes pour obtenir ces cartes à cause de cette déclaration.

La Melena Card m'a coûté environ 250 crédits. Je serais certainement contrarié si Totem l’offrait en vente à un prix inférieur.

Je suis un client fidèle qui dispose de toutes les cartes actuellement disponibles (plus quelques cartes) et qui est disposé à dépenser ce que j'estime être un montant raisonnable (pour moi) si nécessaire pour les cartes SEC.

Comment serait-il juste pour moi (et ceux qui dépensent peut-être davantage) si Totem mettait ces cartes en vente à un prix deux ou trois fois supérieur au prix normal?

J'admets que je n'aime pas particulièrement les chemins non définis (c'est-à-dire les cartes à gratter ou les machines à sous ou similaires) pour obtenir des SEC. Dans ce cas, mon principal reproche n'était pas le coût réel (j'étais prêt à aller plus haut), il fallait gratter 450 cartes à gratter pour y arriver. C'est devenu ennuyeux au bout d'un moment.

S'ils veulent continuer avec les jeux de hasard avec les SEC, Totem devrait peut-être proposer la carte SEC actuelle pour le jeu, soit en vente à 350 crédits, soit vous pouvez tenter votre chance avec les cartes à gratter. La vente ne durerait que pendant la promotion (1 semaine). La carte serait alors retirée définitivement de la vente et deviendrait une chance de gagner dans les jeux futurs.

Juste mes pensées.
Dorsai6
Mitglied seit in Apr 2013
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To those like me who want to be able to buy special event cards (À ceux qui comme moi veulent pouvoir acheter les carte...

Alles über iStripper
23. September 2019, 243 antworten
In fact, if Totem is doing this to get more money, why doesn't it just increase the cost of buying cards per unit a little?/quote]

I agree. A 10% price increase would not bother me. I presently pay $1.15 per card. $1.27 is still less than the cost of a Hershey bar.

[quote]Personally I'm against hazard games.

I don't gamble for entertainment. I think government sponsored gambling is a case of cowardliness on the part of politicians who don't want to raise taxes. I will participate in a game of chance when I think the expected value exceeds the cost. This is why I like to know the probability of wining before I play.

Don't be shy about telling us what it cost you to try to get Melena Tara Rya's card.

Thank you for encouraging me to calculate what I spent on these games. I spent 490 credits and won 3 special event cards including Melena's. I also "won" about a dozen cards I didn't want with I will ignore. That works out to be about $45 for me or about $15 per special event card. I had a similar experience about 6 months ago when I "won" 3 special event cards. I might have been willing to spend $10 for the Red Fox card, but not the others. So, Totem's game was very successful in that it got me to spend much more for these cards than I would have spent if they had a fixed higher price. In the future I will assume that the cost of "wining" a special event card in one of these games is $15 and act accordingly.

Whales

I buy about 220 cards per year. That means I'm worth about $250 per year to Totem. Clearly Totem's business model is high volume/low cost. I suspect as @Wyldanimal suggested that new customers are a larger income source for Totem than customers who have already both all the old cards that interest them. Certainly most of the promotions Totem offers are aimed at customers who own only a small percentage of the available cards.
Caskstrength
Mitglied seit in Aug 2018
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To those like me who want to be able to buy special event cards (À ceux qui comme moi veulent pouvoir acheter les carte...

Alles über iStripper
23. September 2019, 243 antworten
I do agree with you Comte Dracula.

I am really frustrated not to have had any opportunity to acquire this card, Especially so, that I stupidly tried 😒. After spending a good bit of credits on these scratch cards I eventually managed to win a special event card, but not Melena's. A mistake I won't be doing again.

In the past special cards were not left to lottery as mentioned hereabove. I had no problems with that either, as the choice was yours. There was a price that you could be happy to pay or not to get the desired card or not.

Eventhough I've only been a "real" custommer for a year, I can remember the first TGIF I saw was a fixed percentage off on all cards of all the girls in a certain category (Redhead in this case). I have the feeling that I missed the good days of iStripper... As much as I enjoy(ed) iStripper, I am now considering other alternatives,

Here's a Question.
If a member has a full Collection. Call them a Whale .
How Much Does that Whale Spend in a Year to buy every card released that year?

Also,

Totem pays out 60% to their Affiliates and Only keeps 40% for the Business
how much does The Business keep a year from one of us Whales ?

and How Many Whales are there?

You Might be very surprised if you answer these questions...

you don't need to post the numbers here..
Just do it for your own knowledge...


Wyldanimal,

I believe that for once, no one is discussing profits. From my part I don't feel like I have received the opportunity to acqure a card I really wanted. Maybe after I spend 2,000 credits on scratch cards I'll eventually have it, maybe not. And it is not an amount of money I am ready to spend for a single card.

I am not affiliated to anyone and the money I spend buying credits all go to Totem, I am totally fine with that as it is a choice I make everytime I buy credit.

This is just the opinion of a relatively new custommer...
ComteDracula
Mitglied seit in Aug 2017
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To those like me who want to be able to buy special event cards (À ceux qui comme moi veulent pouvoir acheter les carte...

Alles über iStripper
23. September 2019, 243 antworten
@ComteDracula ,

Unobtainable special event cards are the reason for this thread. In most cases, I do not have a problem with the special cards IF they are obtainable by following a clearly defined path - be that pre-ordering a month's cards, following timed steps such as last year's Black Friday special event card, or buying an 'advent calendar'.

I do have a problem with these cards being only available in a game of chance. That is just plain wrong, and that is an issue that needs to be addressed. I won't say how many scratch cards I paid for to NOT get this latest special event card.

@ComteDracula,

Les cartes d’événements spéciaux impossibles à obtenir sont la raison de ce fil de discussion. Dans la plupart des cas, les cartes spéciales ne me posent pas de problème SI elles peuvent être obtenues en suivant un chemin clairement défini - que vous commandiez à l'avance des cartes pour un mois, en suivant des étapes programmées telles que la carte d'événement spécial Black Friday de l'*****ée dernière, ou en achetant un 'calendrier de l'Avent'.

J'ai un problème avec ces cartes étant uniquement disponibles dans un jeu de hasard. C'est tout simplement faux, et c'est un problème qui doit être résolu. Je ne dirai pas combien de cartes à gratter que j'ai payées pour NE PAS obtenir cette dernière carte d'événement spécial.

@Chicsans ,

Let's leave aside the notion of a better customer.

I agree with you that the problem is more with special event cards, which have no definite path to acquiring them, and which leads people to spend a lot of credit without being sure that they will get the card.

I personally prefer when we are offered the card to the purchase of all the cards of the next month, or the purchase of the calendar of the Front.

On the other hand this unfortunately prevents people who do not want to buy cards blind, to have access to the purchase of these cards special events.

In fact, if Totem is doing this to get more money, why doesn't it just increase the cost of buying cards per unit a little?

Personally I'm against hazard games.

Don't be shy about telling us what it cost you to try to get Melena Tara Rya's card. This will show us even more concretely the absurdity of the situation.

Because the problem is not what people wanted to do to acquire this card, but this "cul-de-sac" in which Totem leads its customers.


@Chicsans ,

Laissons de côté la notion de meilleur clients.

Je suis d'accord avec vous, pour dire que le problème vient plus des cartes évènements spéciaux, qui n'ont pas de chemin défini pour en faire l'acquisition, et qui ammène les gens à dépenser beaucoup de crédits sans être certain au final d'obtenir la carte.

Je préfère personnellement lorsqu'on nous propose la carte à l'achat de toutes les cartes du prochain mois, ou l'achat du calendrier de l'Avant.

D'autres part cela empêche malheureusement les personnes qui ne veulent pas acheter des cartes à l'aveugle, d'avoir accès à l'achat de ces cartes évènements spéciaux..

Dans les faits, si Totem fait cela pour avoir plus d'argent, pourquoi n'augmente t-il tout simplement pas un peu le coût d'achat des cartes à l'unité ?

Personnellement je suis contre les jeux de hazard.

Ne vous gênez surtout pas pour nous dire ce que celà vous a coûté pour essayer d'obtenir la carte de Melena Tara Rya. Cela va nous démontrer encore plus concrètement l'absurdité de la situation.

Car le problème n'est pas ce que les gens ont voulu faire pour acquérir cette carte, mais ce "cul-de-sac", dans lequel Totem conduit ses clients.
Chicsans
Mitglied seit in Jul 2009
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To those like me who want to be able to buy special event cards (À ceux qui comme moi veulent pouvoir acheter les carte...

Alles über iStripper
23. September 2019, 243 antworten
@ComteDracula ,

And I will come to my own conclusions.

But before I do so, I will question just who those best customers actually are. In my opinion, and it is MY opinion only, the best customers are NOT those with the most cards in their collection, but are the people that BUY the most cards at any given time or who are able to buy multiple cards at once.

The high collection holders are faithful customers that will buy one card every day, or will buy the newest card when it is released.

The best customers are those that buy multiple cards daily. They spend more money.

But this is not the point of the discussion. Unobtainable special event cards are the reason for this thread. In most cases, I do not have a problem with the special cards IF they are obtainable by following a clearly defined path - be that pre-ordering a month's cards, following timed steps such as last year's Black Friday special event card, or buying an 'advent calendar'.

I do have a problem with these cards being only available in a game of chance. That is just plain wrong, and that is an issue that needs to be addressed. I won't say how many scratch cards I paid for to NOT get this latest special event card.

@ComteDracula,

Et je vais arriver à mes propres conclusions.

Mais avant cela, je vais me demander qui sont ces meilleurs clients. Selon moi, et c’est uniquement mon opinion, les meilleurs clients ne sont PAS ceux qui ont le plus de cartes dans leur collection, mais ceux qui achètent le plus de cartes à la fois ou qui sont en mesure d’acheter plusieurs cartes à la fois.

Les grands détenteurs de collection sont des clients fidèles qui achèteront une carte tous les jours ou qui achètera la carte la plus récente lors de sa sortie.

Les meilleurs clients sont ceux qui achètent plusieurs cartes quotidiennement. Ils dépensent plus d'argent.

Mais ce n'est pas le sujet de la discussion. Les cartes d’événements spéciaux impossibles à obtenir sont la raison de ce fil de discussion. Dans la plupart des cas, les cartes spéciales ne me posent pas de problème SI elles peuvent être obtenues en suivant un chemin clairement défini - que vous commandiez à l'avance des cartes pour un mois, en suivant des étapes programmées telles que la carte d'événement spécial Black Friday de l'*****ée dernière, ou en achetant un 'calendrier de l'Avent'.

J'ai un problème avec ces cartes étant uniquement disponibles dans un jeu de hasard. C'est tout simplement faux, et c'est un problème qui doit être résolu. Je ne dirai pas combien de cartes à gratter que j'ai payées pour NE PAS obtenir cette dernière carte d'événement spécial.
ComteDracula
Mitglied seit in Aug 2017
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To those like me who want to be able to buy special event cards (À ceux qui comme moi veulent pouvoir acheter les carte...

Alles über iStripper
23. September 2019, 243 antworten
@Chicsans ,

I'll let you come to your own conclusions, if Totem doesn't take into account the opinions of its best customers.

On the other hand, in my humble opinion, this gives a bad signal, which goes in the direction that Totem does not deserve our money.

New customers will eventually understand, too, after investing so much money.

This will not solve the frustrations to come with the release of new special event cards, under the same conditions where the purchase will be impossible.

And we will see another procession of people ***** about the existence of these cards, with no solution to be certain to acquire them in the end.

We need a clear signal that for many of us this situation is *****.


@Chicsans ,

Je vous laisse arriver à vos propres conclusions, si Totem ne tient pas compte de l'avis de ses meilleurs clients.

Par contre à mon humble avis, cela donne un mauvais signal, qui va dans la direction que Totem ne mérite pas notre argent.

Les nouveaux clients vont bien finir par comprendre eux aussi, après avoir investi autant d'argent.

Cela ne règlera en rien les frustrations à venir avec la sortie de nouvelles cartes évènements spéciaux, dans ces mêmes conditions où l'achat sera impossible.

Et on va voir encore un cortège de gens se plaindre de l'existence de ces cartes, avec aucune solution d'être certain de les acquérir au final.

Il faut un signal clair, que pour beaucoup d'entre nous, cette situation est inacceptable.