Why do you wish for iStripper to Fail ?
I have not seen anyone wishing for IS to fail? just the opposite from my prospective.
There is resistance and concern that DOLZ and exclusive content has and continues to ***** the IS experience.
I know I am concerned that the current direction will cost iStripper revenue and shrink membership leading to the inevitable.
I can tell you personally (just my opinion & feelings - nothing more):
1. I don't care about DOLZ and the sooner it goes away the better as far as I'm concerned but I enjoy iStripper and have invested thousands of dollars and years of my time supporting it and hope it's here for many more years to come.
2. I'm OK with a raise in price but I'm concerned it will not actually generate more revenue because buyers will either buy fewer cards, or quite all together, and new potential members could pass all together. Just a concern; only time will tell.
3. If I'm paying an increase because of DOLZ or members are tired of play games then that is annoying. I'm not saying it is but I don't know one way or the other. I have no idea why they feel the need to raise prices but if it's to buy equipment, pay models and their expenses, etc then so be it but I don't think it's data center cost (in my very limited experience with AWS pricing seems flat or even lower cost in the last few years.
Bottom line is the shows probably do cost more to produce BUT there are two ways to compensate for it. Either raise the price of the show and hope members continue buying at the same rate or just sell more shows by getting new members and encouraging current members to keep spending. I think most members would prefer the latter but maybe harder than it seems. I always thought that selling more shows was the whole point of the exclusive shows but if it's not working then they should stop doing it so members can buy the shows they want again.
I could go into how the investment in the catalog is also a hedge against inflation but maybe another time.
But to reiterate - I can tell you I hope iStripper and Totem prosper for years to come.