I guess I'll ask the question that no one else will. Why the price increase in Jia Lissa's latest card? It's not special event or holiday themed.

Most of us didn't notice, becaue we bought the advent calendar and had no higher prize.

I noticed. Mugsy noticed. This is just the metastases of the Special Events cancer.

We should not be surprised that we had to pay a mild premium for certain content when some pay many multiples of typical card price for artificial "speciality."

Some cards with higher price have been released since many years here on Istripper; even before Exclusive cards were introduced.

This is just the metastases of the Special Events cancer.

This card has nothing to do with a Special Event, so no Special Event Card.
And other cards are more expensive too, like Kaisa Nord f0586.

@hanssachs Been here a decade. I know. And now we're two in a week and special events at increasing frequency. The director explained there was added cost around the milk for Kaisa Nord. Nada this time.

By all means, buy it all. It's your right. I won't. It took a decade for EA to experience a backlash about loot boxification. It mystifies me that subscribers keep coming to the forum to write comments in support of higher prices or gambling, even though I fully understand Totem's motivations in this matter.

She actually plays and sings on this card. Got to be worth a few extra credits just for the novelty.

Well I enjoyed it anyway😍

Please note for all those who don't like talent contests it only lasts a short while.😎

Just checked back - there was no extra charge if you bought this as part of the Advent Calendar.

264 credits = 24 shows x 11 credits each

@Mugsy Jia plays the ukulele and sings in four clips, if that ain't worth the few extra credits I don't know what is! It's f#@cking magical and well worth every penny to me. To my knowledge, this is unique in iStripper, and it is wonderful.

You know... it gets incredibly boring reading all these bitching posts about whatever some members can find fault with.
So this card may have cost 10 or 50 centimos more than normal, depending on your level. SO FRACKING WHAT???

It's a UNIQUE card that's absolutely worth a sip of coffee extra! Kaisa's card is also something special with all that milk and the bottle used for more than it was intended. JEEZ, people!

Do you ever leave a tip in a bar or restaurant for good service? Did you HAVE to leave the tip??? How many times have you paid or given a little extra for something and thought nothing of it? STOP with the whining. PLEASE!

100th of a euro. Like a cent in dollars 😐

Hombre, my opinion is just as valid as anybody else's on a public forum and if I feel like speaking my mind on a topic then you can be sure I will. Can't wait til next week when some model brings out a hula hoop and plays around with it for 30 seconds. What's the price of admission going to be for that one?

JK about the hula hoop, just making a point. Hey your money, your choices. This charging extra for cards is a slippery slope I'm going to avoid.

Cards that have a slight increase in price are few and far between. It may be that Totem had to invest more than usual in a particular outfit, or as these latest two cards show, there was something different from the normal run. These cards become 'SPECIAL' because they are in some way different.

So. Would you rather pay a little extra for something novel and unique or have Totem make these type of unique cards... WAIT FOR IT... SEC cards?

Hombre, my opinion is just as valid as anybody else's on a public forum and if I feel like speaking my mind on a topic then you can be sure I will. Can't wait til next week when some model brings out a hula hoop and plays around with it for 30 seconds. What's the price of admission going to be for that one?

Kidding/not-kidding!

Don't care...

Thanks for your short window of caring. Other people are exhausting, as we're happy to prove to eachother.

You have no idea! 😇

Letting Jia show us her musical side is a delight. Made it more personal for me. Thanks @Team !!

Jia's card is oustanding. So Kaisa's one is.
I would of course not support a global price raise here, but I find a small price increase for a little number of particularly interesting cards - and these two ones surely are - to be fine.
I too, by the way, don't like Exclusive cards, gambling and so; but we have to accept that thanks to them the product is becoming more sustainable for the company, and also thanks to them they are emproving the product quite a lot: recently we got a better cam, 4K, VR, better models (more beautiful and more skilful). And there are more ways to get the Exclusive cards, now, too.
That said - yes: I buy all I want. And since I have Premium membership and I bought Advent calender, I also did get Jia's card for just 11 credits. And, by the way, one can even wait for cashback offers, in order to even get such priced cards without spending anything...

Did I miss the notice when Totem was marketing the Premium membership that not all of the card would have the 20% discount? I swear, Totem. How about a little integrity on how you run your business? You might as well be selling used cards or being politicians.

I guess this is my punishment for not buying the Advent Calendar.

Do the words Honesty and Transparency mean anything to you?

@gkar45 I don't want the Advent Calendar and I realize the 10 day period after release was for the Premium members (which I am) to get the 20% discount. Why isn't the Jia Lissa card the same discount as the others?

And what the hell is the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission, SouthEast Conference in the NCAA)?

SEC in this place means Special Event Card.

@ckvghduser - The extra discount that premium members get is only 10%, not 20%. It will have been applied to the Jia Lissa card in question, but that card had a higher non-discounted price than run of the mill cards hence a higher price after the discount is applied.

SEC = Special Event card.

I ***** to be this way. I just don't understand why all of the Premium Member discounted cards can't be the same consistent price. Am I being unreasonable?

TBH, yes. You are...

Why would that apply only for Premium members? Why not ask why there is any variation in price for non-premium members ?

Because I was told that if I paid the extra Premium Membership fee, I would get the discount in return -- not an occasional discount.

No. I'm not stupid. Just the cards since the promotion of the Premium discount -- two cards of which had higher than advertised discounts.

No. I'm not stupid. Just the cards since the promotion of the Premium discount -- two cards of which had higher than advertised discounts.

No they have higher than usual prices.

Discounts are quoted by Totem as percentages.

45% for Triple Diamond and a further 20% for a premium member.

They said nothing about this being a fixed number of credits.

It would be financial ***** for Totem to state that prices of cards will be fixed. Costs go up and if Totem can't occasionally raise their prices to match those costs then they will fail as a business.

IMHO that is why we are seeing more gambling, SECs and the like. It is a way for Totem to earn extra revenue without generally increasing the price of cards which would generally be unpopular. Personally I do not object to paying a few extra credits here and there for a card that has some novel content e.g. the Jia Lissa and Kaisa Nord cards. Personally I found Jia's singing and playing enjoyable and they show her sense of fun. As for Kaisa's card - I will never be able to look at a milk bottle in the same way ever again.

IMHO that is why we are seeing more gambling, SECs and the like. It is a way for Totem to earn extra revenue without generally increasing the price of cards which would generally be unpopular.

This is a very good analyse and summary of Totem's way of business.