@ComteDraculaCertainly the analogies are not perfect, they were intended to show that the practice is widespread.
iStripper is a monopoly and has no equivalent.
Bingo, you have identified a very important aspect - something you have known but have been ignoring important consequences thereof.
It means that there is less of a reason for them to indulge in the practices that you keep asking for. Such "philanthropy" by businesses directed towards customers it is usually associated with competition by being used to encourage users to stay with the company making the "gifts", Conversely "gifts" are also used to encourage customers of the competition to switch as well as attracting completely new customers.
Monopolies only really need to offer such "gifts" in order to retain customers - but very loyal customers are precisely those that are less likely to leave anyway so are less receptive to them.
We are essentially in agreement about what is happening, but not about the likelihood of it changing. In my opinion we are only likely to see it if it becomes favourable to Totem. Arguing that other companies provide "gifts" to loyal customers is irrelevant if those companies have direct competitors while Totem do not.
A very very relevant example here is myself. Until recently I had been buying every normal card that Totem had released and only shortly before ceasing to do that had also participated in the games to the extent that I had all the SECs. If, while exhibiting my "maximum loyalty" I had been offered a free SEC it would have
reduced the income that Totem's received from me.
They would not have been giving me a SEC (which would have cost them very little) but would have been giving up the amount that I would have paid in order to get that SEC (which would have been a much larger amount). so it is not surprising that during this period I was offered no such "gifts". However, since I ceased to be a "loyal customer" I have received a few offers of this kind - again this is not surprising as such offers could have nudged me back into buying again.
I am surely not alone in this. Certainly there will have been other "loyal customers" for which the offer would have been effective, but the question is would they, in Totem's estimation, made up for the risk of losses from those like me,