One other thing.

So now every day all of the carosels (releases popular, busty, etc), are filled with cards that are tagged "New". These cards are neither new nor new to me and the vast majority are previews I have already seen. :-(

Prior to this update, when the carousel showed something tagged new it was actually new or new to me. But now this is gone. I dont know if this counts as a bug or if it is expected behavior.

cant edit a picture to my above note!

The bottom line is right now I have no way of knowing which cards I already previewed. So now I have to reconsider basically every card in the totem catalog. Worse yet, I will be ***** to do this forever every time I think about which card to buy ... every time!!!

I understand the reasons behind the new feature and so I will accept that it needs to be in place. But I really think there needs to be some thought put into replacing the lost functionality. The wishlist is not sufficient for this. Some others have provided suggestions so let me add mine to the list.

1. Show wishlist indicator on the cards when I click on the cards view for a given model (or everywhere cards are visible). In the past it showed the cards that I had previews of. It no longer does this. I used this to indicate to myself that I had already considered that card. If I dont own the show then there must be a reason why, such as I have decided against it. Wishlist items were the ones I have decided to get but havent done so yet. Without the wishlist indicator on the cards view then I have to click on each card to see if that card is on my wishlist.

2. If the indicator for previews is now gone for good (except for the 7) then I want the ability to privately rate cards. So once I've watched the preview I can set an indicator, that shows on each card, that indicates my thoughts. Similar to the above this indicator should be visible everywhere cards are visible but of course only visible to me.

Please dont make me rewatch hudreds of previews so I can decide what to purchase next.

@Paints, same here, I'm loving her outfits, so full of color and revealing. I would pre-order her Take 2 cards.

So I bought the card @the discounted price but, why do I still get the add every few minutes????

I was prepared to buy this show at an increased price, when I saw the discount I couldn't believe it. What a fantastic present you've given us Totem. For all us single guys out there, Valentine's Day is a harsh reminder of how alone we truly are. Estonika provides some relief from this ***** day. Oh and beer. Lots of beer.

If I understand what is being asked for, I'd say it's a personal Rating System.
So cards can have 0 to 5 Hearts that would show up as a banner on them.
You give a rating between 0 ( no Hearts) to 10 (5 full Hearts) 1/2 Hearts are all the Odd Numbers

And then a Sort option based on User Rating

This way, all the cards in your Wish list would have your Own Personal Rating with anywhere from 0 to 5 full Hearts shown on it.

Reading through all these posts,

That is the best way I can Sum up collectively, what is being asked for.

0= no Hearts
1 = 1/2 Heart
2= 1 full Heart
3 = 1 and 1/2 Heart
4 = 2 full Heart
etc...
10 = 5 full Hearts

Edit: I changed it from Stars to Hearts to keep with the Favorites theme..

Thanks, I too was pleasantly surprised with the discount!

@Rex
Theres nothing wrong with adding cards to the wishlist, except that there are way too many cards there already. ;>)
So without having a way to add my personal mark to a card after previewing, I still have to preview all 200+ cards in my wishlist, to decide, witch to buy right now.
What I would like, is a custom "banner", like the NEW or the Preview, in which I can put f.ex. a number - like how bad do I want this card... Could also be a simple "Favorite" banner; that is how the preview (1.2.148) functions at the time for me. It tells me wich are my favorites on the wishlist.
After Preview, I would set the number in the banner or mark it as a favorite, so I have prioritized future investments. Timesaver.
(Could be a useful feature in the collection tab as well.)

Yes - I could limit the number on my wishlist. Which would probably also mean I would buy fewer cards.
It would also make the "Featured" section superfluous. That is where I find cards today. Look at the girl, the preview, the 8 available fotos, and sometimes the coments.
Today I have 3 options :
Cards I dont care about, I remove preview if downloaded and do nothing else.
Cards I like, and would like to buy at some time, I put on wishlist. If it is one I like a littel more than most, I keep the preview, so it is marked as a favorite on my wishist.
Others that I like but can not invest in, in the near future, also goes on the wishlist, but I delete the preview. This is also cards that f.ex. would complement a collection or a series.

If I can not mark my favorites on the wishlist, it would have to hold only my favorites. Otherwise, I would spend all my days looking at previews to decide, what to buy (A large number to choose from is both a blessing and a curse).
I would then have to look for new cards to put on the wishlist, when it becomes empty, among all the girls, rather than the "featured".
I use the wishlist as a kind of accumulator for cards I like and would like to buy. And cards marked as "Favorite" (Preview), are the ones that will be bought first.

Having only the wishlist for marking, is kind of dividing all the cards into "don't like" or "must have" piles.
And that is very rude - I miss the "like, and will buy, when the current must have pile runs empty".

Hope this makes some kind of sense ;>)

Dorsai6 im getting the same error messages you are getting. About Nudity lvls. Still cant play ANY previews. at all. Any insight on how to fix this?

Thanks for the discount! The card was awesome!

Previews, not my collection..

In my opinion, totem products, are much more classier than regular porn. There is an appreciation of the beauty of the female form that you don't feel when you watch regular porn. Regular porn, in my opinion, satisfies certain animalist urgers in men, and there is nothing wrong with that. But, there is much more to istripper than just fulfilling those urges. You get to see up close and personal the perfection of the human female form, and to get ***** with it. You also feel a certain personal connection to the performer that you don't usually feel when you watch regular porn. Just my 2 cents.

I didn't touch the bold tag. I used the quote/unquote html tags to add the post as a quote. The original had no bold parts. It just appeared that way and when I tried to edit it to normal text, my own text appeared as bold also. As I said, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot??? Weird... I swear I did NOT use the BOLD tags.

Awesome! Usually special cards where more expensive (still not sure why - so I bought them when you could opt for X + last free) - now not only it's not more expensive, it's on sale! I didn't have to spent time deciding whether I should buy it. Thanks, Totem - nice present! :)

Oh my God, I just got a look at the png's of Dillion Harper's cards! Can I just pre-order all of them right now, please!

@Hombre - Almost certainly what happened in you post is that the terminating /bold tag (in square brackets) was lost from the text that you quoted. Click on "How to use this editor" at the bottom of the forum page if you do not know what I mean by the /bold tag.

@Hombre, I know caps is SHOUTING..not sure what speaking in bold is..probably talking loud.

@xerato iStripper legally is 'porn' however lots of people continue to enjoy Totem products well after any of them may have cum and thats rarely the case with mainstream porn. iStripper could have been a failure if @Team weren't magicians in bringing out the best in the personalities of the girls and it shows.

@Pop: From Wikipedia...

Defining erotic art is difficult since perceptions of both what is erotic and what is art fluctuate. A sculpture of a phallus in some African cultures may be considered a traditional symbol of potency though not overtly erotic.

In addition, a distinction is often made between erotic art and pornography (which also depicts scenes of love-making and is intended to evoke erotic arousal, but is not usually considered art). The distinction may lie in intent and message; erotic art would be items intended as pieces of art, encapturing formal elements of art, and drawing on other historical artworks. Pornography may also use these tools, but is primarily intended to arouse one sexually. Nevertheless, these elements of distinction are highly subjective.

For instance, Justice Potter Stewart of the Supreme Court of the United States, in attempting to explain "hard-core" pornography, or what is obscene, famously wrote, "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced ... ut I know it when I see it.

Not agreeing or disagreeing with you here. I do agree tho that it is highly subjective :)

Edit: No idea why the last bits came out in BOLD. I didn't do it! Honestly! :/

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot???

@robbanzjo

Re: Why people object to changes

Unless a change represents an immediate improvement and an immediate reduction in effort many people will object. Once someone establishes a fixed way of doing something they will object to a need to change that method even if it promises long-term benefits. If a capability that was useful is lost even if there is another way to achieve the same result, there will be objections. This is human nature.

I think iStripper continues to improve, but there are some capabilities that are important to me that I've lost and would like to see restored.

Thanks from me as well

Thanks Totem :D

Thanks Totem.

I get where Totem are coming from. They are selling variety NEW faces NEW talent because thats what market wants.
Holding unbought cards and waiting to make collections of maybe's or waiting for just one model to complete playlists by members does not turn over sales.
Since VG the navigation of the software to get the show you want once you are used to ***** cards/clips etc ~ has improved outstandingly imho. It gets better & easier the more you use it. Old VG users who won't buy probably need a single step by step tutorial on navigation tricks .

Edit:
Just a few thoughts on what Totem found with the freeloaders.

Possible reasons peeps don't buy ANY cards:
1. ~ Only looking for something for nothing
2. ~ From countries where payment is denied or difficult
3. ~ don't want others (banks/wives etc) to see they are paying for
4. ~ peeps who could not/will not, get a real credit payment account

and

Possible reasons peeps don't buy ANY except 1 card:
How many of these are from..

1. ~ got a free card in earlier versions ?
2. ~ used a fake or stolen credit card to commence ?
3. ~ wanted bank statement to show just one small payment and no more.

There are obvious means to vet these by checking histories
but Totem needs to show large member numbers as a sales incentive & for p2p.
Disincentivising the dead wood who sit only on demos could convert to sales
but to be realistic, the numbers involved should exclude peeps who cannot buy cards.
With other software, trial versions have expiry dates to filter this. No buy ~ no show

What an amazing card for her return debut.
This Estonika BMV performance is better than ever !!!

So cool!

i got it as soon as i seen her i have all of her cards

Yes it and what a good card of Estonika.

I dont know if im just a simple user but when i read all these "complaints" it feels like so many is making it waaaay more difficult for themselves then it needs to be...

To begin with i dont think i will ever understand why so many is so against changes and when things gets a fresh up and in my opinion all that have happened with this product involving the change to iStripper is if you ask me a great change and i have been a member since 2012 so i used VG for quite awhile myself.

Im sorry but i just cant see the "issues" that so many seem to have around the previews changes.

So just to add some positivity in all this id just like to say that all of you working over att Totem are doing a fantastic job and i really hope that you keep this up!! Dont give up on us!! :)

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Hi @volkan80
Yes there is way !

Go to settings > Advanced settings > CLIPS > Free preview Push > Never

Cheers :)

is there anyway to disable auto download previews here ?

@Birger52 You can preview the cards and then to mark them click on Whishlist.
I don't get what's not working with that, please explain in more details :)
Are you saying you'd like a new filter to see the ones that have been previewed at least once?

@Dunkelskog

(maybe I'll spend the money on milk)

It really annoys me when people call erotic art "porn"...so annoying! Erotic art is not "porn"...it is erotic art!

Estonika, our sweet Valentine ❤️

I was not expecting this, thank you Totem :)

Estonika (she deserves it)

@Nikotem,

Great news! Thanks.

Thank you Totem, Estonika is so sexy and sensual for this particular day. She's the best one to be our Valentine ❤️

Special offer! For Valentine's day, get Estonika's full show with a -14% discount !!
This offer will end on Wednesday 11.29 pm GMT+1
Enjoy

Tania R.

It's rare for me to buy every show of a model these days, but I have all of Tania"s. Would like to see her again! A show with sound would be awesome, even if it's not XXX.

When I saw Genevieve Ghandi, I thought "Could it be my beloved Devine? Finally coming back to the fold?" No. It's not. But she's quite a good stunt double... :)

Hello, will there be any skin for Valentines day, like it was for Halloween and Christmas? :)

Estonika

Estonika

Estonika

@Rex

Thank you so much!
Have a nice day!

BJlover

@frenchkiss8 Hi, do you mean a model in your collection or a preview ? Please clarify

@Rex
Dividing around 1500 cards into 2 piles (Not on wishlist or on wishlist) is stille a lot of cards in each pile.
Having 4 piles, makes for fewer cards in each pile. (not marked, preview, wishlist and wishlist+preview)
But you are taking away 2 of those options/piles.

Yes, we can preview as many cards as we like, but can only keep the mark for 7 cards.
So we need a way to mark the cards that has been previewed.
A way to give it our own evaluation; is it a must have or a can do without -card.
Without it, I will need to preview my way through all 1500 cards I have not already bought (or at least the 200+ on my wishist), to decide which one is the next to buy. I can not afford to buy on impulse, so I need to know, my investment is the best possible...
That the preview of a given card may or may not start immediately, when played, is not useful.