@nm76 says in favour of making SEC and/or Joker cards purchasable
So Totem could be making WAY MORE MONEY from me
but the point is that Totem would then be making WAY
LESS MONEY from others which would more than offset the gains that you envisage.
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@boan000 says
Hell NO!!! 200 credits for a single card?!:? Don't give Totem any ideas, please. 50 credits would be more than enough
Again this would almost certainly reduce Totem's profits. As I have repeatedly said suggestions to any business that amounts to "please reduce your profits" are not likely to be followed. 50 credits is far too low a price - as is essentially proved by the apparent fact that many people do pay far more than that, via the gambling games, with the aim of getting these cards. One measure of how much something is worth is how much others will pay for it.
@garyaw20In this latest version of the scratch game it also took me a similar, though somewhat lower, number of attempts as yourself - but the overall cost was low. Others in the same position as us (i.e. having full or almost full collections) in this thread have reported similar results or event have ended up with the SEC and more credits than they started with. I have had a similar experience with all of the iStripper scratch card games that I have played - I always got the SEC, once with a small increase in credits, two at very low cost (30 or 40 credits) and once with a slightly higher cost (90 credits if I rember correctly). Overall I find this quite reasonable.