@v24257546 and @Dorsai6 I totally agree with both of you. I buy much more cards as the system is right now (playing demos at will), and especially true for past cards. If a card seems interesting to me and I can't see the demo to make a decision, I won't buy it. By the time its demo become available, either I won't be interested anymore or I won't be there when it comes out.

@Dorsai6 - it is no longer a beta release and has been rolled out publicly as the latest Windows build for all to use. I've just cleaned up my notebook's storage folders and will attack the desktop later. Worthwhile exercise, I have a simple spreadsheet to keep tabs on what should/shouldn't be there so can quickly purge any unwanted data once in a while.

Uma Jolie?! Cool!

I'm a Mac user, so I can't try this new beta, but the time-out on demos concerns me. Normally, I download a demo and make a buy decision within a few hours. In this case the demos are not an issue for me. However, sometimes I want to reconsider a card I did not buy many months ago. Will I be able to see that demo? If I can't, I probably won't buy the card.

@WA that is sadly disappointing and you are correct, I've just checked and found some.

@Rex , please take this into serious consideration as you will annoy a lot of loyal and new customers otherwise.

expiring demos should be automatically removed from the HDD. if there are no rights to play after a certain amount of time, I personally feel it is categorically wrong/taking the ***** to expect users to continue to host content they cannot access themselves.

So accordingly, I will from now on apply the same logic and remove them, restrictions can and will work both ways.

I'll try to explain myself with a question then. With the new system, one customer downloads a demo, decides not to buy the card, and the preview expires: if then, let's say, some months later he thinks he could buy that card and he would like to see the demo again, it will possible to get the rights to play that demo again or not?

I never buy a card without watching its preview first. Many times I bought a card whose demo i downloaded months earlier - and had to watch the demo again before making a decision. For my user habits, it's absolutely normal. With the new system, If demos expire forever, I think I will buy way less cards.

Moreover, I started to buy cards just when, and because of, demos got unlimited with the release of Istripper. Now I am a Platinum member. So, at least in my case, the system was profitable for Totem.

Do you still have the issue ?

@Kees1
You can not use iStripper on iPhone.
It is a software for desktop only.

sorry about the late response.
Yes, you need to create another account on istripper.live because it is provided by a third party.
Enjoy :)

Also I forgot how I ran my setup. I have a DVI cable connected to the monitor running to a HDMI switcher hub I have mounted to my desk. From there is HDMI to the GPU and HDMI to my XBox One. So the cabling doesn't matter. Long as it is a digital signal and IPS-like technology you should be a to get a superior picture quality out of the program.

Demos with no expiration just seems...silly lol

I mean you either buy the card or you don't...end of story :D

Yeah that would be seriously lame if that was the only way to install things on the droid you are looking for...

its not working for me to

Thank you. That helps a lot!

You don't need no appstore to install a programm/app on your android ;)
Remember the good old windows ".exe"s or apple ".dmg"s ? It's called .apk on android and installs any app with ease.
However there are several existing threads about this topic.

I may be wrong, as I only did limited testing with my Test account.
but from what I saw, the demo clips still reside on your HDD, you just no longer have rights to play them after they expire.
They were not automatically deleted.

So you get them for a duration of time, then they expire. But the downloaded clips still reside on the HDD.
this helps with P2P.

Now lets say your Demo's have already expired, and you purchase the card.
Since the demo clips are still on your HDD, this should save some DL time and bandwidth, as they are already there.

If you are asking for Demos with NO expiration, I can't see how this will help Totem make a Profit?
I believe that was why a more detailed explanation was requested.
Why do you need to have unlimited Demo's with no expiration?

problem is, where do you draw the line? you may have platinum and above members who download a large number of new card previews but don't buy for whatever reason right away and then forget about the card entirely.

At least a preview expiry may encourage them to consider purchasing quicker or delete them if not interested and find another card to preview instead (which is more likely to end in a purchase).

I believe they are separate but Totem get income from it as it is run for them by Duodecad ITS. My understanding is you need a new account

I decided to take a look at the Live tab on my program today, and I just assumed it was the same as when you go to buy credits, that it'd automatically log you into the live site the same as it does to reload your account when it comes up in the browser.

Instead, it requires me to login, but when I try to log in with my regular account information, it tells me its an incorrect username or password.

My question is if the live site is indeed linked to my iStripper account, or would I have to create a new account especially for the live site?

Thank you for reading and taking the time to answer

@goldiecharleston Sure I agree with you that if people are abusing the unlimited previews something have to be done. That's the reason I proposed to limit the previews for the free users and let them stay for Platinum ones and above: the ones who, buying many cards, proved that they don't ***** the system.

Tasha reign. nice though imo she looked better a yaer or two ago :c

[quote][quote]@v24257546

In case you are not aware:
When you Purchase a card, you get to keep the previews from that card. they are not removed after you make the Purchase.

I know that, but I think we watch demos above all BEFORE buying cards, so it would be more useful for the upper level customer to keep the right to store them and then compare them, just as it is now.[/quote]

Maybe, however I can see the argument from both sides and have to agree with Totem on this one. People are abusing the unlimited previews so something had to be done.

However, from the P2P side if a user deletes all their preview clips for bought shows (some do) then the variety of cards shared will affected by the 12 card limit.

@Rex maybe the limit for people with P2P disabled could be capped at 12 and people with P2P sharing enabled 24 cards? Just my thoughts on the matter

@DANO70

Awesome! I just wanted to delete the previews I had downloaded...I'll have to get use to this new interface/method of doing things...but that won't take long :D

working here, maybe a dns issue for @v23028422?

@v23028422 Hi, are there any error messages ? Can you please provide more details ?

[quote]@v24257546

In case you are not aware:
When you Purchase a card, you get to keep the previews from that card. they are not removed after you make the Purchase.

I know that, but I think we watch demos above all BEFORE buying cards, so it would be more useful for the upper level customer to keep the right to store them and then compare them, just as it is now.

Edit to my previous post. I ment the entire girl store catalog. Not your collection.

@v24257546

Uhhmmm........

"need the right to store unlimited demos"....???

Care to elaborate a bit on why you feel you "Need" to have "Unlimited" free demos and be able to keep them all forever ???

Perhaps a good and clear explanation would help them understand where you're coming from with that

Simply because I never buy cards without seeing their previews first, and when I choose which cards to buy I use to compare lots of demos... Now doing so is more simple, having many of them already stored in my device. With the new system instead I will have to download them again and again and again each time, using more both of my time and Totems' bandwirth. Just that.

@POPEYED

Change the filter setting on the girls page "Content type/preview" If you want to just see the previews you have. It's easier to manage them without scrolling through your entire collection.

Why it isn't possible to enter "live" anymore? What happens?

If you go to 'girls' you can see them marked as 'preview' there... but, yeah. Bit weird that! ;)

Hey thanks a lot! and yeah that is...weird :P

If you go to 'girls' you can see them marked as 'preview' there... but, yeah. Bit weird that! ;)

I am experiencing technical difficulties...ever since I updated to the latest version I no longer see downloaded demos as being in my collection...ummm ???

Perhaps it would be a good idea to give users option to "mark" certain cards before they are bought.
And I not just mean bookmarking/ favorites.

I find myself still quite often downloading demo just to realize, that I did it in the past just to remove it moments later - for that it would be great to be able to mark cards as "I don't think I will ever buy it". Ignoring these cards in carousel draw would be a nice extra addition. I have it both for certain models, but also for single cards of model that I generally like.

I'm already using previews often as "favoritess": I often keep lots of them as "TBD" - I like the card, but I'm not sure yet if/when I will buy it.
If there would be an option to mark it as "favorite" w/o keeping downloaded preview forever...

I'm using playlist for that, but managing them is not as easy as "mark as favorite", "mark as unwanted" on the card itself (similar to "No nudity preview/Start preview" and "Get full nude show" that we see now on cards that we haven't bought). If that would be implemented I would be OK wih previews disappearing from my disk and I do understand the reason for it.

And last but certainly not least: thank you for listenining to the feedback about X - I can't wait to be able to enable it back. I get it with the new users, but not sure if annoying old users is such a great idea for your business model...? They can be good advocates of the product, and very often buy new cards on-the-spot. I find this change as super-annoying and even though it's consider a feature, to me that is one big bug. Having an option in the menu to enable X (with natural, expected behaviour) works for me.

@v24257546
Thank you for the answer, Rex.
As I said earlier to kaiju, i understand well the reason for this decision, but still think that the loyal members who regularly buy a lot of cards and don't ***** the system could be rewarded by the Team, letting them continue to store the previews without limits.
Therefore I would propose an idea for a new feature: that the loyal members who still wish and need the right to store unlimited demos could get it, paying some amount of credits. I would do that - and I think I would be willing to pay even, let's say, 300 credits for a feature like this one.

In case you are not aware:
When you Purchase a card, you get to keep the previews from that card. they are not removed after you make the Purchase.

Will a new version for Mac be out soon, which similarly removes auto-download of previews?

@Rex: Thanks for explaining the reasons for hiding Previews in this version. It's not ideal, but it makes sense in context.
You mention that you're looking at limiting the number of Previews that can be kept at any one time, or limiting the amount of time for which any one Preview can be kept. Will they return to the Collection view once such limitations are in place? It's far easier to manage Shows and Previews when they're all in the same place.

The idea of time limits and/or caps on the number of Previews that can be held fits with the idea of Previews as being the 'try before you buy', and pushes the user to make their mind up whether they actually want to see that show. In that case, would it be possible to have a 'wishlist' option? That would help two types of users buy more shows: those short of spare time could create a follow-up list without 'starting the clock' on the Preview, and those short of credits when they see the Preview could keep a reminder until they can buy more. Even if the wishlist was only available for higher-tier users who have (hopefully!) already demonstrated that they're not freeloaders, I'm sure it would help sales in the long term.

I must still be missing a trick of how to view Previews once downloaded, besides searching through the 80 or so Previews in the Store for the one that caught my eye in the Carousel. It seems to defeat the point of having Previews if the user can't easily find and view them.

Ohhhhh.....Wash my monitor ladies, it's real DIRTY. LOL

I know right LOL!

@Rex ~ We need to sell shows to be able to produce them.

@Rex, its about the production philosophy: I refer to Estonika's last card - Uninhibited.
You mentioned aspects that affect the bottom line, and production was one of them.. Naked to some of us means expecting to see a truely fully naked female body. We know you guys bought a lot of shoes for wardrobe department some time ago and especially with taskbar shootings, some of us now feel that the girls are wearing these shoes throughout (ie: in all clips) just to please the management. We should be able to anticipate at least one barefoot taskbar clip and hence a truely naked clip in every performance at some stage. It would help sell a great many more cards & don't want just be buying one in every 5 cards. Please consider.

@v24257546

Uhhmmm........

"need the right to store unlimited demos"....???

Care to elaborate a bit on why you feel you "Need" to have "Unlimited" free demos and be able to keep them all forever ???

Perhaps a good and clear explanation would help them understand where you're coming from with that

@lukaszr Those guys ***** about previews in My Collection should have tried harder before *****. There was a checkbox "Previews only" in collection filter in the left pane, it was there for a long time. It was under "Content type" which contained two checkboxes, "Full" and "Previews only". When only "Full" is checked, only full cards were showed. There was no reason for ***** at all. The "Previews only" should have been unchecked by default so no one would have ***** about it.

Thank you for the answer, Rex.
As I said earlier to kaiju, i understand well the reason for this decision, but still think that the loyal members who regularly buy a lot of cards and don't ***** the system could be rewarded by the Team, letting them continue to store the previews without limits.
Therefore I would propose an idea for a new feature: that the loyal members who still wish and need the right to store unlimited demos could get it, paying some amount of credits. I would do that - and I think I would be willing to pay even, let's say, 300 credits for a feature like this one.

@v24257546 As a paying member, you'l still be able to watch as many previews as you want but we'll limit how many of them you can have at the same time (about a dozen at once seems about right) and how long you can enjoy them before they go. We want paying customers to be able to preview any girl they consider buying, we don't want people abusing the system and spending all their time only watching free stuff. We need to sell shows to be able to produce them.

I was thinking about something else... If it wouldn't be taking away the surprise factor, why couldn't there be an "Upcoming" tab made on the Featured screen for the upcoming 5 cards showing the card and the date it will be released?

well... there goes my card budget!!
Seriously though, given the cards I have seen in the spoiler thread I am going to ***** through the rest of my credits very quickly now.
I am looking forward to this with enthusisasm.

Ohhhhh.....Wash my monitor ladies, it's real DIRTY. LOL

Earlier I couldn't wait every mondays, wednesdays and fridays. At these days there was always some surprise awaiting. Now EVERY ONE f*****g day in a week will be AWESOME! I'm more than happy :)

I just wrote a post about previews on Bug and Fixes. I ask: would it be possible the previews to be limited only for the free users and remain unlimited for upper level members, that proved, with the big collections they own, to loyally use them just to choose which cards to buy? For me, the unlimited previews are very useful, and one of most important features of Istripper. Thanks.

check out the 3rd party apps ie mikandi

@lukaszr Too many new users were abusing the unlimited free preview downloads and were... only collecting free previews.
As I mentioned in another post, we excluded the free previews from my collection and plan to limit the number of simultaneous free previews and/or their duration in the near future.

Show an X button in GUI option in advanced settings seems to be the agreement with the best work / effect ratio.

We're close to release another beta with a revamped girl's page / console featuring new visual showing (tastefull) nudity.

Next on our list is the revamp of the store look and its filters, the behaviour of the carrousel / free previews and the access to basic functions from mobile phones.

It might not go as fast as we wish, but keep in mind that in the meantime we have to maintain servers, banks and billing issues, accounting, customer service, affiliation program, advertising material and not to mention casting, production and post-production. Girls washing glasses and windows is the new big thing at the studio now, expect that to hit your own screen hard in the coming weeks.