Now I have all the cards. Except for a special event card. And the only way away is this gambling again? Not cool. So you lose your customers.

A number of people have said this - but like you have apparently continued to be customers. Totem can see the results of each of their special offers, including the special events, and as they continue to offer them we can be pretty sure that the number of lost customers is not high enough to be a major concern.

I don't like the special events nor do I like the gambling games but as long as they are profitable I suspect that we will continue to see them (and perhaps we indirectly profit from delaying possible price increases)

Totem have done it again.
Another special event card with no defined pathway to obtain it.
Presumably Totem are happy to lose loyal customers.
I will not be topping up my credit balance in the future so presumably Totem have worked out that they are getting more money from people playing these scratchcard games where you might not win anything.
Same with the Joker card, you might have hundreds of entries in the draw and win nothing.

I agree!

It's really annoying that Totem does nothing for long-time (well paying) customers. Except for the diamond status.

Now I have all the cards. Except for a special event card. And the only way away is this gambling again? Not cool. So you lose your customers.

Thanks for clarity. I suspected that's how it worked.

I just spent 10 credits on a scratch card (was only going to do 1) and got 2 S's. It said my prize was 100 credits. I didn't get them. Is this bugged? Do I need to report this to Totem or is this rip off working as intended?

It says at the top "Scratch circles and get three S's to win."

I just spent 10 credits on a scratch card (was only going to do 1) and got 2 S's. It said my prize was 100 credits. I didn't get them. Is this bugged? Do I need to report this to Totem or is this rip off working as intended?

I do not know how

I don't know how either but I imagine in order to win the Joker you must play the fool.

There is a countdown
How to get the card
I do not know how
I wish more clarification in the explanation
Note Do I have to pay money until I get my Joker card - or is it completely free

If we all just said "no", you could buy your Melena and other cards just like the other thousand or more you already purchased. I don't play these games anymore, but so many others here do, that Totem has no choice but to do business this way. Do you expect them to walk away from customers who will spend 200 credits or more on a single SE card, while also buying "dud" cards that they don't want.
If we just didn't Scratch, the SE cards would end. And Totem would retail Melena's SE card the same way they did all her prior cards. But you need to just say NO!

One of the constants I see in many of the complaints is: "I spent 1000 credits or 650 credits" (or much worse) and all I got were a few older cards or a few small 'cash back' wins etc etc etc and no special event card etc etc. How can intelligent people let things get so far out of hand? As far as I can tell there is no gun being held to people's heads, making them to keep pressing the button and further to make them get out their credit card to continue their folly.

I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I'm guessing we all see it the same way: This company sells a product! They have made several desirable versions of the product. They have made it impossible to buy these desirable versions of the product! Instead, the only way to acquire this is through pure luck. Worse, there is literally no way we can know if there is true randomness behind the mechamism, we have only their word, that it's not rigged, we can't even see the odds of winning.

A person could literally spend thousands of dollars/euros and still never get these cards, if it's truly random. Not even Bugattie or Ferrari treats their customers that poorly with their special editions. Any of their customers could still get that super special edition car if they just spend enough money, no luck involved.

Imagine if grocery stores or clothes shops did this. You want a lobster tail or filet mignon? $1 entry on the roulette wheel please. No guarantee you'll get that steak, but after spending $5,000 you'll have some cans of beans and green beans to go home with.

I personally have no problem with gambling and have willingly played the other gambling games Totem has had and enjoyed them. This has nothing to do with gambling, this is about exclusivety through pure dumb luck and because of that is a 100% money grab by the company with very slim benefits to their customers (pretty sure the progressive packs and maybe the slot machine are way better deals card/cost wise for even the luckiest person in this game).

Yes, there were a few people who whined about not instantly winning the SEC on the first 1-2 scratchers they tried, but if you go back and look at the majority of the posts, what most people are really upset is the argument I presented above.

sounds awesome

@HSS

@PD48: Dayam, dude! I found myself looking for typos in that, 'novel.'Couldn't have put it better, my friend 😇

I cheated and did it online via Firefox which has spell checker.... 😉

Sorry for the "wordiness" but I couldn't completely express my opinion any shorter.

But thanks for the positive response. (Thanks to those that did reply above)

Frankly I expected flames instead of what I got.

So an unexpected but pleasant surprise.

G'night sir!

@pumpdude48 I applaud you.
I restricted myself to spend 100 credits, and that´s it. Got nothing special out of it, but I can understand the problem that you allways have 2 stars for the special event or 100 tickets. Personally I wouldn´t mind it at all if there would also be the situation where you only have 1 star, but that´s not happening, at least not from my experience.
This way it kinda looks rigged, but overall I cannot ***** about the outcome.

I live in Las Vegas, NV. I dealt in casinos here for 6 years after retiring from the Air *****. I've been a member of VG since 2008.

And I've never felt so screwed by Totem since they came out with the asinine "games" as the only way to get some cards.

Geez, if I went to a local strip club here in Vegas (lots of them here) and they told me the only way I could "TIP" a dancer was to put my $1, $5, $10 bills in a "pool" and then THEY would randomly decide which dancers got MY money, I would tell them where THEY could go. On iStripper, I "TIP" a girl (and Totem) buy PURCHASING HER CARD WITH MY OWN MONEY. Quit trying to make me GAMBLE my money to get the card. It's a total slap in the face to what MOST RESPONSIBLE companies would consider LOYAL customers.

For God's sake, let ME use MY money to buy the cards I want. Quit these stupid gambling games. There are already several "bonus" cards I WOULD have purchased, but HAVEN'T, because the only way I could them them is by GAMBLING for them. Sorry...I'm keeping my money instead of doing that. It's pure BS.

That and the cards you win are crap qualiy ones that nobody wants anymore because for some reason in 2019 they cant upgrade the quality of the old shows.

I have seen posts wth (edited) next to them and somone said about starting a poll, how do i do these things! thank you for your help :)

@PD48: Dayam, dude! I found myself looking for typos in that, 'novel.'

Couldn't have put it better, my friend 😇

To be honest i think the scratchcards give very good value for the credits over all.. I've made it to 155 tries and have gotten 4 SE cards and a ton of extra cards (some are good some are not..) and i'm 300ish credits deep, which means i've paid about 75credits/ SEC (if we calculate ONLY the SECs because those were my goal). Which might seem like a lot, but it is what i was certainly willing to pay.

It all depends on luck, but I do feel like the odds are at least decent enough.

@pumpdude48

👍

I also agree with @Wyldanimal that "SEC" should have a definite path to receiving the card. The "scratch cards" are a no go for me as I value my credits too much to gamble for cards I "may not" receive. I also see at least 2 more "SEC" cards this year coming, so this "business model" will continue..........

One of the constants I see in many of the complaints is: "I spent 1000 credits or 650 credits" (or much worse) and all I got were a few older cards or a few small 'cash back' wins etc etc etc and no special event card etc etc. How can intelligent people let things get so far out of hand? As far as I can tell there is no gun being held to people's heads, making them to keep pressing the button and further to make them get out their credit card to continue their folly.

I am wondering if there are really that many truly naive people here that really don't know that a scratcher card or a slot machine is real gambling where the odds always favor the house?

Or on the other hand do they realize they are gambling but when the grapes turn sour, they then want to lay the blame on anyone other than themselves for wasting their cash...?

Totem is here to make money. They have a product people seem to want, with a company to make it that has expenses to cover and employees to compensate. This is a business being run as a business and rightly so.

No one is ***** anyone to push the 'buy' button here but every time you do push the button you are further validating this business model 'promotion' as a viable method to make money and increase profits. From my point of view it is pretty easy to infer that this is a money maker for Totem hence the repeat appearances of the apparently popular gambling type promotions seemingly regardless of the vociferous complaints here in the forum.

Don't like the gambling? DON'T DO IT!!!!

But if you do play the game and lose, don't snivel to me about it and then try to blame anyone but yourself for your lost fortune. We are all supposed to be adults here, responsible for our own actions, regardless of how foolish they may end up being. Lick your wounds, learn from them so as not to repeat them and move on.

All this being said, I will also say that I totally agree with @Wyldanimal 's statement about making the 'special event' cards available through a guaranteed method/pathway and not hiding them behind a game of chance. To use my own feelings as a gauge, I would guess that even a large portion the "silent majority" he refers to, that buy the product and play the games but don't comment here, for the most part have a least a little feeling of "shame on you" towards Totem for doing these sorts of open ended 'take advantage of people's weakness' promotions.

If gambling is here to stay and customer satisfaction is a priority for Totem, I would suggest a modification to the gambling promotions where they make some arbitrary point in the process where winning the card/prize is assured. They don't have to publish the point where this happens, only to say that the point exists and let the big gamblers find it and publish it. In other words, you may win the prizes earlier in the gambling process but for sure you will win them if you reach a certain point. There is still the gambling "atmosphere" but sort of a golden parachute at some point along the way. The prizes would still cost way more than they would have normally but at least they are attainable. And once the point is found and published others can decide if they want to go that far for a guaranteed result.

My 2 dollar take on the issue.

PD48

yep, it translats over & pretty good too, yes, i can understand as to the why

:)

You really shouldn't feed the trolls.

OK, era solo per farti capire che, con una forma linguistica stretta come la tua, il traduttore non serve a molto...
Preferisco quindi usare un Inglese più semplice, ma che può essere facilmente compreso da tutti.
:)

Ariciao!

@gkar45

I don't be able to completely understand what you want to say (too tight language), but it seems to me that you said that this matter has been discussed from many time (as I also said).
Anyway, thanks for your answer and have a nice day!


Non riesco a capire esattamente cosa vuoi dire (linguaggio troppo contratto), ma mi sembra di capire che hai detto che questo argomento è già stato discusso da molto tempo sul forum (come dicevo anche io).
Comunque, grazie per la risposta e buona giornata!

Kay J in Country picnic
Love the ruffles

Heidi Romanova in ***** Passion
You see this panty set around, but she's beautiful in them.

@gkar45

I didn't mean that the situation has to be resolved over the weekend!
In fact, my protest is not aimed at the moderators (who do so much for the forum) or at forum members, but at the core team that produces the shows.
Many other times in the past (and like me many other members) have protested for the SECs' unfair policy, but there has never been a clear and comprehensive reply from the team.
I also work during the week, and I left these messages in the forum, with the hope that the team members can read them and understand that many of us don't like the way SECs are used.
If they want to use them for the game, OK: there is who likes the game.
But they should also give the possibility, perhaps even at a greater cost, to be accessible to ALL that are not gamblers!

P.S.: excuse my low English, I'm not a native speaking (I'm Italian) and I don't like use the translators 'cause the non perfect comprehension of the spoken language...

As said in this thread http://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/42834/1?post=632044 you can win only one joker card. After winning, you can keep this joker card until you want to exchange it against the card you want, special event card included.

I know that this system is stupid and all but a few questions...
Can you get more than 1 joker card?
Can you hold onto the joker cards?
Also... Why design this system?

I have to say i don´t look regulary into the forum here but as far as my experience goes i think i never saw someone from iStripper answer regarding questions like yours M1971. It´s like let´s wait and sitt it out if someone has a complaint.
But i´m not sure if iStripper has a comunity manager at all, it seems not.

If i compare this site regarding comunication from the Staff in the forum with the VR sites i have a subscription to, like WankzVR, BaDoinkVR and SexbabesVR i can only raise my eyebrow. They definetely listen to suggestions from their subscribers to improve with ideas, model suggestions and so on... I guess something like this is not welcome here. We are only be asked about castings so they are not going to cast a model most of us will not buy the show of.

Another whole day of complaints to look forward to. And it has spread into other threads too.

Maybe I'll be wrong, but it seems to me that the staff completely ignores all the users complaints.
I tried to post my 2 cents on this matter in forum's other sections: now we see if anyone of Totem will say something about these SECs...

Unfortunately, it seems that all the complaints expressed so far by customers about SECs are not taken into consideration by the staff.
Then, only one solution remains: ignore all of us (as I've always done) these special events (scratch cards, slot machines, lotteries, joker cards, etc.). At that point, Totem will be ***** to sell these cards normally so as not to lose out on production costs.
I know it is not fair to suggest this solution, but neither was Totem fair with this profit policy.
It would have been enough to sell the SECs at a slightly higher cost, but accessible to ALL customers.
Obviolusly, my 2 cents...

Another whole day of complaints to look forward to. And it has spread into other threads too.

Well Guys, 258 attempts later, i got it...

This event is not fun and feels like a money dump, please can we not have this type of event again?

They will, there's no reason to discontinue it at this present time.

:(

So this is a great way to get a bunch of cards you do not want or will not watch. Just price the cards of the most popular girls higher. This game is bullshit. I ***** alot of credits to see if winning the card you want is even possible. The amount needed is higher than I am willing to spend. What a waste

@Cypher3 I totally agree with you 100% the games suck i ***** hella money i didnt get Melena either I did manage to pull josephine Jackson i like her but not as much as melena you know and the 100 vcrfedits feel like a sham every time i would get the chance to win these credits i lost the most credits that i have gotten was 50 credits mostly puilled 10 credits or some b.s card from 2009 that iwouldnt even buy.

Au final cette magnifique carte de Melena Maria Rya/hot and roll m'a coûtée 407 crédits.
25 cartes horribles que je ne téléchargerai jamais, merci du cadeau lol.
i$tripper est devenu un casino avec tous ces jeux et c'est bien dommage.
Peu importe des promotions a venir, Je ne rechargerai plus mes crédits.
Bye Bye Totem 👍😄😉

This is the first time I have ever commented. Ive been using this app for two years, and I can tell you now, I ***** these stupid events. All I want is the ability to purchase some of these cards. But NOOOOOOO. tHeSe ArE sPeCiAl EvEnT cArDs! Meaning you need to jump through endless hoops and a horribly defined process to obtain them. The mental gymnastics that must have gone into this are staggering.

Heres a simple concept:

I have money. I want to buy one of your cards. You want to make money, SO SELL ME THE CARD! I will gladly pay extra for some of these "special event" cards if necessary. What I dont want to do, is set up a physics lab in my office and gather the best and brightest minds on earth to figure out how this works.

Whoever runs these events should be fired, because no rational person comes up with this garbage.

Bought four cards, took my money. got no scratchers, did get four entries into the Joker event...... NOT a big fan of the SPECIAL EVENT CARDS. Only cards not in my collection and can never seem to win them

Well at least it's a chance.
That's all I asked for at any rate.

I'm beyond aggrevated with totem right now. I've spent 75.00 us dollars on the scratch off and still no Melena Rya special card. Why can't they just offer special cards at a higher rate but this game ***** is not the way to get it. 3/4 of the people don't get to enjoy these. I'm a huge fan of hers and I really thought having purchased 450 token I would get it.

And another important thing to remember is to take screenshots before completely scratching out the three S's and the prize, in case it doesn't go through. It also happens so fast when it's credits, that you may not notice anything if you get it (since no prompt if you don't have notifications on). Stay aware of your credit balance number before finishing scratching off. Will get rid of *****. Others have said it: If you don't have proof, it doesn't show up in your account history, and Totem doesn't see it. Nothing much can be done.

Yep been playing it some more here and there and been staying pretty even with random credit wins, have gotten a few cards I hadn't considered or hadn't seen in a while and some were in my wish list. Of course some were the much older cards. Haven't won a special event card, but been picking away at wishlist and some of the preview discounts as the random credit bonuses happen.

I understand all the gripes about it and yeah, some of it could be improved, but another user pointed out well that we did just have a weekend of great savings. And my collection had a big boost. I think the key here is to only spend what you're comfortable losing and don't set out to get the special cards. Just a little bit of thrill. If you get one, great. But don't break the bank doing it. Until there's some more sane way to get those cards, they may as well not exist in my mind.

@Number6 - I second @Chicsans reply. 50years working on computers and I had forgot those shortcuts.

Still prefer using https://www.istripper.com/forum/index . MUST USE MOUSE. Not really.

so here are my statistics from the last scratch game with the ginebra card

509 scratch cards bought
299 losses
125 credit wins (90 x 10, 29 x 50 and 6 x 100)
82 normal cards won
3 special cards (Giinebra was the 3rd special card)

so with all the credit rewards I got this special card after spending 2950 credits. Definitely not buying one of those scratch cards ever again.

Noooo
io non sono fortunato al gioco
E so già che non avrò la carta speciale
ed una carta di una mia ragazza preferita
BASTA carte speciali che non riesco ad avere !!!!

I have to admit that my all time favorites were Jana Cova and Lorena G. Not just becaause of their looks but also because of their on camera personalities. They both had great smiles and I wish they had continued here longer.

No OnE sHoUlD gRiPe AbOuT mOnEy. The ***** you smokin' mate,? They made it more expensive with this "Special Cards plus Gambling" bullshit. I've gone over a thousand scratches, still don't have this event card. I probably won't be using their ***** anymore, this is some goddamned motherfucking bullshit, and they fucking know it.

Face it bro, your luck sucks.

I think getting special event cards should be associated with your diamond level or something like that not expensive games. I agree the game is unfair in many ways, but it worked out for me.

As for the other comment; 9lb hammer. Maybe everyone should try some.

This is a porn site and as such I have low expectations of the management doing the right thing about anything that happens here. The only thing that is going to bring about change is a boycott if totem ignores complaints.
I have no intentions of starting or participating in one.

Credits win 2280
card win 69
SEC win 1
Joker 296

Start Credits 400
Buy Credits 500
End Credits 300
total Cost Credits 600

Cost Per Card 600/70=11.42

I would not buy 42 cards only 28 that i mayby would buy.

worst case scenario i pay 600 credits (60 EURO) for Melena Maria Rya.
best case scenario i pay per card 21.42 credits (2.14EURO)

Not the Best investment i ever have done. I hoop i get a joker to make it a little better.

@Donatien , I am not being sarcastic here, but have you tried to scratch off the circles on the card in the image that you posted earlier?

im loving vr paradise and watching istrippershows in steam vr is nice as well

What hardware are you using? I'm just getting into vr and I would like to get the right gear.

I only plan to play games on steam like vr paradise or watch vr movies.