I've Nothing to win in the Scratch Game, so I just played to have a bit of Fun..

I ended up Slightly Ahead, by 10 Credits.

Started out with a few 0,0 scratches, But then I got some 10's and 25's and 5's
Never a Double winner though, always a 0 credit along with one win.

But in the end, I won back all I had Spent, plus 10 credits ahead.

So I spent a fair bit of credits and got quite a few cards valued at more than I spent if I had bought the cards. All in all I saved about 18.4 credits. (meh) Except for the fact many of them are medium and standard quality... which I've stopped buying...

Then there are two cc/cc+ cards I disabled, because I didn't care for the model. All that taken into concideration, the cc+ cards I kept would have cost 28.75 each instead of 15.

OK, OK, I kept about half of the medium and standard cards. My point is, that it's all in how you look at it. Sure, in the end I got more "value" than I paid for. However, since I disabled close to half the cards I lost out in the end.

Not to mention I was hoping for a special event card... sigh... I didn't get one. =( Oh well.

So, if you're picky, the scratch off games might not be a good idea. I'm rather fond of the check the cards you want, and redraw the rest games. I rarely end up paying full price for cards I want that way. Not to mention I don't end up feeling like I ***** credits on cards I don't want... Like the 59 cards currently disabled... sigh...

*****UPDATE*****
I bought a few more tickets... On this run, I made out like a bandit. 14 more cards, and 3 of them were special events. Only 1... maybe 2 that I'm not keeping. Do I dare buy more? Hmmmmm

I agree with your assessment - this simply isn't such a great deal for people with already big collections, as we end up paying more for the cards than we would've otherwise. I sometimes wonder why I even other with these games, then I remember it's all about boredom and addiction :)

I played it 4 times with a 10Cr budget (i.e. I stopped when I was 10Cr down) and got 2 cards, one of which was on my wishlist and one was so old I won't download it.

Maybe I'm wrong, but from people's comments it seems that the game has a straightforward probabalistic strategy - the same for everybody and the same for every scratch. Wouldn't it be better if it played us with a bit more subtlety? I'm sure they could invent an algorithm. For example, net no-loss for five scratches, then a wishlist card, net loss for a bit, then an SEC, then an old card. Modify it each time they publish it. Modify according to collection size. Modify according to playing history. Algorithm secret, o'viously.

If they got it right people could be milked without feeling ripped off. And Totem could monetise the back catalogue.

@SetFeugo - say

Totem has called the devil, now they have to accept that there are extremely dissatisfied customers as long as these ***** SECs exist.

Which is correct, but if you look at from their point of view that may not be such a big deal. See @Kaiju 's summary of 2019

http://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/43757/1?post=645976

Alles über iStripper / Happy New Year 2020!

Hello all ! 2019 was a great year filled with stunning babes, arousing shows and crazy promotions! In a few numbers : 367 shows released. One G.O.T. cosplay with Bonnie Parker who is Khaleesi's double...

where he says that in 2019 there were "over 20,000 special event cards won" and "3000+ Joker cards offered". In each case most of the users will have paid for these in one way or another, often quite steeply. It seems to me that they are probably a good source of extra profit that more than makes up for the losses from dissatisfied customers.

@Alkasyn - you are quite right that in general these games are not "such a great deal for people with already big collections". I would go further and say that they are not a great deal, or even a good deal, for anybody no matter what the size is of their collection - unless you assign a high value to the fun of playing them, which I do not but some may.

@pantalone - I do not know whether it applies to the scratch games but in many places it is illegal to dynamically adjust the odds like that even it is an adjustment in favour of the customer.

Which is correct, but if you look at from their point of view that may not be such a big deal. See @Kaiju 's summary of 2019

This is completely irrelevant to me, since it would be easy for Totem to satisfy all customers by, for example, instead of these damn SECs, only spending jokers as winnings so that everyone can "play for" their desired card. Everyone would get, with or without gambling, "all" wish cards and anyone who wants can still gamble here. All customers are involved, no one is offended or excluded because, for whatever reason, they do not want to take part in gambling or pre-sales.

I was fairly lucky last time I played (black Friday): I got all SECs available at that time - a couple I didn't want though. So I gave it a go this time too...

77 scratches
16*5 cred
13*10
3*25
2*50

10 "free" cards
2 virtuagirls
4 deskbabes
3 istrippers
1 old istripper xxx (US studio)

No SEC, but I'm not really surprised.

Out of these 10 cards, one I wanted, and a few I don't mind having.

Compared to other members, I seem quite lucky: got back to my original credit count, so basically got 10 free cards. At some point I was up 50 cred with about 3 or 4 free cards, should have stopped at that point.

I suggest you stop when you're up 40 or 50 cred if you wanna win anything out of this because, as someone else said, after that it only goes downhill.

Anyway can't *****, got 10 cards and I didn't lose any credits, so thanx for that Totem! 😉

@SetFuego - but doing as you want would reduce Totem's profit from the gambling games but would probably not provide an equal source of profit to compensate for that loss. This is because those that only play the games to get SECs would cease to be attracted by them as they could use an alternative cheaper option. Saying to a business to please reduce your profits to benefit me is unlikely to get you anywhere.

And that closes the circle @TheEmu and I come back to my first statement:

Totem has called the devil, now they have to accept that there are extremely dissatisfied users as long as these ***** SECs exist.

@SetFuego - I agree with you - but if SECs increase Totem's profits they are almost certainly going to continue to exist even though both of us dislike their existance. A few disgruntled customers will make very little difference even if they stop buying completely.

While I appreciate the gamblers paying for my porn

Crudely said, but that's the point.

I am not (at all) a fan of Exclusive cards, and I told it really lots of times; but, since I noticed that such stuff did pay, and still pays, for better models, better cam, better resolution, better card processing, and helps much program's sustainablity... long life to Exclusive cards.

I still would have some requests, though:

• no more than 6 such cards in an year to be released;
• to always have a clear path in order to get them - at least at date of first publication of such a card;
• to get some more occasions to win a Joker.

And, by the way, I also had to see what said @TheEmu to be true: most people who used to ***** saying they could leave Istripper - because angry about SECs - is still here. We are all hooked, at the end...

100 scratch
16 cards newest and last missing sec include
some credits...

total pay at least 125 credits... its ok for me

i have played a few credits each day since Friday... I usually pop about 5 cards a day, and keep playing with the credits one, then pop 5 more. Total so far, I have played 57 total times since Friday and here are my totals

255 credits won back total
9 regular cards (one of which I didnt keep in collection, others are okay, but all older cards
BUT I did tonight FINALLy got a SEC, my first from these games.... it was Melena so happy about that.

Not sure if I will play more this week, pretty happy I got a SEC, usually not that lucky in all the times I have played in the past... Overall, not down that many credits from the start plus I got SEC plus 9 other cards to add to collection, so over all, not too bad, but usually not the norm for these games..... but Ill take it....

scratched 300 cards no exclussive disapointed ....

what is a joker card ? i got only regular card

we can get it from scratch ?

@trish01 - if you are referring to getting a Joker card from a scratch card then the answer is not this time. though It has been possible from some previous scratch cards.

@TheEmu and @gkar45 thk for answering me ^^

Finally i got it my exclussive card 345 scratch ^^ GG me :)

milk and cookies :) @gkar45