I agree with @orclover, @zzmaskers writes the best reviews and generally does a lot of good posts in the forum, I am thankful for his time spent.

I do not have the same taste as @zz , but I do think he has good taste and respect that. I like my girls a little more voluptuous than zz, but I always look for his reviews before I buy a card (except for those instant buys, like Belka and Nicci 😄).

Thanks for helping make the forum better @zz! 👍

Took the plunge, made the investment ... and am quite pleased with the result. I don't think it's my imagination but there's a noticeable improvement on my 4K TV which is connected to my 1080p laptop. It can only get better when I eventually improve the laptop.

As our English friends might say ... "good show, iStripper, jolly good show!"

@Carbo - No they have NOT taken anything - they have offered something new and this time have decided to charge for it. They could simply have continued as before and not offered the 4k resolution at all.

There is a huge difference between taking and not giving.

@Jinn86 - What have you lost by Totem offering something new? Totem could have simply continued as they had until now but instead they have now offered more than before without taking anything away from what they were previously offering. You have the option of just continuing as you did before and simply ignorig the newer options.

They have taken something, now we have to pay resolution upgrade. In the beginning it was 720p, then 1080p came and then 3K. Did you have to be Premium to download 3K ?? Then now to pay back their new 4K cameras and equipment, they just invented something new. Yes we've lost a lot since they introduced gambling, special event cards and now we have to pay for developments.

@freewheeler - there has been no indication as to whether or not joker cards will in future be related to premium membership. As yet the only things are that a Specal Event Card has been issued to mark the start of the premium membership scheme and that we get a joker card if we join this week, the initial announcemnt siad

To celebrate this news, we have decided to offer a JOKER card for every subscription run before Friday,

There is no indication that this will be a recurrent feature.

How often will we get a joker card to redeem for a free card/special event card once we buy the Premium subscription?
I bought the subscription and purchased all the available cards at the discounted rate, and used the joker card to purchase one of the 5 speciual event cards in my store.
Do I have to wait until my year's subscription is up and renew to get another joker card, or is it every 10 days, or what?

@Jinn86 - What have you lost by Totem offering something new? Totem could have simply continued as they had until now but instead they have now offered more than before without taking anything away from what they were previously offering. You have the option of just continuing as you did before and simply ignorig the newer options.

@7Xer02 Thank you very much for your compliment.
I have my likings and dislikings related to the models of which I buy shows. I only make comments of models, which I like. Of models which are not my type, I don't buy shows.
I always look at:

• the beauty (very subjective)
• the outfit (less subjective)
• the skills, the personality and the charisma of a model.

The models with the best shows, are not always the one's with the highest ratings and the highest sales.
Skills, personality and charisma are for me very important. Recent models like Angelika Grays, Stella Flex, Belka, Nici, Melena Maria Rya, Milena and Angel Sway have this. If they are not your type don't buy the show. Never buy a show because I say it's a good show! Follow your own instinct.
I write comments for several reasons:

• I like to do this (feels like good and satisfying "work"; I'm retired, so I have plenty of time for this.)
• to give information to the customers
• to give feedback to the @productionteam
• to give something back to the model, who does this all for us.

I don't buy shows of models, which are not my type, so that I never have to write negative comments.

Hey Guys.

the newest iStripper Version 1.2.238 makes it necessary to update my player or it won't work anymore.
I am just about to do that. Expect an update in the next days.

Just to let you know: That new version will require Java 8 or higher to run. Normally most people should fulfill that requirement without doing anything extra by now.

Greetings
Starryk

I would still put all of the Istripper girls on a weight gain program.

I would say: put some models on a weight loose program. Can help prevent cardiovascular disease.

I'm seeing many premium crowns in the forum area, as well as on peoples profiles. Is this a new status on the forums that us peons will not be able to post in?

How do I cancel premium at Webbilling?
I didn't find anything at their website.

Ok. I went with epoch and paypal. Feels better.
Thx.

@Chicsans

I see a potential flaw in this strategy. That beng that you probably won't be getting a new Joker card when your premium member thing recurring renewal happens. The way that I read the opening post of the TGIF is that the Joker card is only available with the purchase of the premium offer until Oct. 25. After that it will be gone.

You may be right. After a year, I'll cash in my Joker and then act as I see best. I will not spend more than 50 credits for a single card.

Sweet. I already stopped buying because you keep coming up with new and better ways to stick it to us and now you finally found the straw that breaks my back.

You want me to pay on top of paying to I can have a resolution?

You must be owned by EA.

You lost me as a customer. I won't be buying points ever again. Once I grow tired of the cards I have I will just remove this lemon.

Farewell.

I have over 3300 cards by now and still regularly buying. But I'm at a point where all the slot machines and scratch cards offer me cards that don't really bother me that much anymore. I decided that for me it was a lot cheaper to buy only the cards I want rather than to gamble for them.
But... I would also like to keep the option to eventually get the collection complete and therefore I always entered the special events just to get the special card. Until... last time when the special events card could only be won by gambling. So now I'm left with one card I will never be able to get (by the current rules of the game) and thus will never be able to complete my collection. Therefore any further special event cards have no meaning for me anymore. If my collection cannot be completed because of one card, it may as well not be completed by two or more cards.
I understand Totem is in it for the money, but if they want mine for this Premium subscription, they have to give me the option to buy (not even need to give away) the special event cards. I would even be prepared to continue to enter special events if getting the special event card is for sure and only have the option to buy the special event cards for gambling events as a Premium subscriber.
In any way, it's their business. If they don't want my money I'm fine with it. There's so many other things to spend it on and have fun.

One more time, Stella Cardo has me 💖💖💖

Femme Fatal sounds so much sexier (thanks France)

You're welcome @muttonjeff 😊

As to a benefit of the shows at 4k vs other resolutions:

In the area of skin coloration accuracy on a calibrated display:
I am observing that though Skye's skin coloration at 4k is pretty close to other resolutions, Niki's 4k skin hue, compared to other resolutions, more accurately represents a Eurasion with a medium tan, as can be observed frequently here in SoCal. And that's a good thing.

I would still put all of the Istripper girls on a weight gain program.

I think Debora A is the lightest around here. She weights only 37 kg (81 pounds).

@Arsena - For European sales Totem (and their European customers) have to pay VAT (MwSt). This does not apply for sales elsewhere. If you consider this then the difference in Euro and Dollar prices is much smaller. In fact I think it is in the opposite direction.

$59 + 20% VAT = $70.8 = 63.37 euro

I would have thought that you would only lose the premium status after the year that you have paid for is up. I think that Celine or one of the other team members said as much in an early post.

@Arsena - For European sales Totem (and their European customers) have to pay VAT (MwSt). This does not apply for sales elsewhere. If you consider this then the difference in Euro and Dollar prices is much smaller. In fact I think it is in the opposite direction.

A few more thick ones:
Aria Giovanni
Valentina Nappi
Carmen Croft
Maria Marino
Sofia Curly
Stella Jones
Lil Vos

@Totem,
your behaviour remembers me to the behaviour of a lot of innkeepers in my home region during the implementation of the Euro currency. Too lazy to make a real calculation of Deutsche Mark to Euro prices (1 Euro was 1,95583 DM) they changed only the currency symbol DM to EUR (or €). Some weeks later they were ***** about breaking off sales . . .😧
A try of updating to premium via the Totem software didn't work.😦
A try via the Totem Internet portal behaves that way:
First pic: Invitation to upgrade - Price 59 $
Second Pic: Invitation to purchase the upgrade - Price 59 €
Third Pic: Actual exchange rate Euro to Dollar
This means: Payment Euro to Dollar: 59,00 € × 1.12 = 66.08 $
Shocking!

PS: To get some advantage I have 240 cards during the premium year. The maximum number of purchased cards during a year was nearly 220. . .

I have 4300 cards , so I'm going to wait
Purchase the cards and download them laterrrrrrrrrr - 4k that's about 100 cards +
That ain't cheap - if I don't have resources to watch now , what is the point
I might as well throw money about ,that i can't see 4k now - !!!!!!!! ( am I mad ??? ) Too much money & no sence

I may be crazy to spend £600 on a 20TB HDD , I have budget £7000 for new PC , £2000 4k HDR 200Hz curved monitor

You guys must be breaking Totem's servers downloading shows in 4K. I tried to "update" a couple of cards, and the update ***** in a few seconds.

12 hours later and I still cannot download the updates. (Angel Sway, Sailor Rose and Stella Cardo, A walk in the park).

Not buying any new shows....much less buying the new premium promo....until I can download cards I have already bought!!!

I've run out of HDD space
waiting for 20TB HDD release

This Premium is wrong timing for me
i'm not going to save nothing if I can't download for the purchase

You can purchase the cards and download them later when you have the space.

I've run out of HDD space
waiting for 20TB HDD release

This Premium is wrong timing for me
i'm not going to save nothing if I can't download for the purchase

The Premium offer is a top of membership that gives you the following advantages for 1 year:
20% discount on the new cards during the 10 days following their release, 20% discount on VR 180° clips during the 10 days following their release, Unlock of the 4K resolution of the Crystal Clear+ quality shows, Priority response from the customer service, Highlighted profile and Premium skin!
This offer is available for only 59$ per year.

So my question is how do I cancel it then and will I still have the Premium status after I cancel.
I dont want to sub to this next time.

Thick is the best. Some of these have enough to please. I would still put all of the Istripper girls on a weight gain program.

Anais Hills - The Thickest!
Stella Johanssen
Allie Haze
Valeria Borghese
Sandra Blond

@sjaakie - In the Hall Of Fame posts in the News section of the Featured tab you will find a list of 250 users who who benefit. In order to get onto this list you must not only have bought essentially not only all the recent cards but also all of the older 1080p, 720p and 480p cards which implies that there will almost certainly be an even larger number of users that have not bothered with all of the older cards but are still buying all of the new cards as they appear. The answer to your question "how many you think you buy and make the choice" is therefore at least several hundred - or rather at least that many would benefit from taking up the offer.

I will be happy the day some competition comes to this market.

Its needed......

I believe the entirely of the userbase has spoken: please add the ability to buy special event cards as an additional feature for the premium service, even if it's just for 10 days from release. Better still, give subbers a joker card per month.

As diamond use 1 show is 25-45% = 13.75 credits. As premium user 13.75-20% = 11 credits. A saving of 2.75 credits. 500 credits are € 49.99 premium is € 59. This is 590 credits in proportion. If I only use the 20% discount, I have to buy at least 215 shows to be more affordable. So how many you think you buy and make the choice.

Either do it/buy or don't ..
It's a choice you make ..
Nobody is ***** anybody..
No go have a great weekend !!

My current strategy will be to "spend" my joker this time next year on the SEC card I'd most like to have. Then I'll repeat the same thing the following year.

@Dorsai6 , I see a potential flaw in this strategy. That beng that you probably won't be getting a new Joker card when your premium member thing recurring renewal happens. The way that I read the opening post of the TGIF is that the Joker card is only available with the purchase of the premium offer until Oct. 25. After that it will be gone.

I also wanted to chime in and thank @zzmaskers for the in-depth reviews. They definitely helped a lot both in passing and buying on certain shows. Real asset to the community.

Seriously i am glad those of you that buy most if not all the cards are actually getting some love in the form of a % off you can use as opposed to the TGIF's which are usually no use to you all. AFIK it's you that have kept the lights on at totem all these years.

BUT no **** put 600 credit on the table for an event EVER.

Not sure what the scratch cards cost, was it 10 credits per go?

70 attempts

http://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/42834/2?post=632106

100 attempts

http://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/42834/2?post=632117

update 150 attempts

http://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/42834/2?post=632117

414 tickets (are these attempts?)

http://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/42834/3?post=632181

the list goes on...

3k cc+ ,4k ,4k HDR ? , 8k ?!?!? - ( Premium +++ )

This Premium is going to cost more ,
New PC with Pcie 6.0 to have GPU & monitor at 8k + 20TB HDD

i have 4301 cards ,it is a mess , when are they ever going to categorize into model name etc ....

4301 = 2.73TB in 480 ,720,1080,3k

How long does it take to earn loyalty points? I read on the website FAQ that you can earn free loyalty points

I can't see them giving up their primary way of milking ***** like yourself, some of you payed hundreds and hundreds of credits to get 1 card in the scratch card event. From a customer relations standpoint that was super bad (forum posts said it all), but from a fincial standpoint they were laughing all the way to the bank. "OMG, this one guy payed 600 credits to get one card LMAO".

This is a buisness after all...

They just gave you $40 cash...if you buy 365 cards a year. You save 27.5c per card. That is exactly $100 a year that you will save just with the 20% discount. 100-59 for the deal and you just made $41. Totem just gave $41 or 37 free future 4k cards for free! What a deal!

For those that the deal best suits we effectively get 66% interest on the 60 euros we pay to join.

Josephine Jackson might be right up your alley, sir.

@Williammeke

If your PC has the performance to do all the Scaling of the clips, then it should be fine.

But if you don't have a powerful PC, and you are Downloading 4K clips to Play on a 1080p Screen.
The Software must ReSize Every Frame to fit your Screen. That takes Lots of CPU power.

It's always Best to Download the Clip size that Best Fits your Screen to Maximize Performance.

One Common issue with Down Sizing the Clips is Stuttering Sound.
If you are playing a Clip with Sound, and you Notice the Sound is Stuttering...
Then It probably Means your PC is Struggling to do both, Resize the Clip, Keep up the frame rate, and play the sounds.

The Premium Membership, Unlocks the 4K size, But that Does not Mean you MUST use the 4K size.
Use the Size that Performs Best for your Computer Hardware.

You will still get all the other perks that come with the Premium Membership.
For members who Buy all the cards.
It's a good Deal..

Many XXX Cards again...😒😒😒

Would be great if a filter existed for thickness. Favorite has got to be Katrina Moreno!! Chloe Lamoure, Kyra Hot, and Nekane are the thick ladies I got. Any other suggestions?

@d00bies
I just wish they would stop putting cards that we can not just buy behind those games. Or at least give us another way to buy those Joker cards, so the people who don't have time to waste can just get it and go.

I wish we could buy those Joker cards for 2x or even 3x the price of normal card just so I don't have to waste my time playing these chance games that have been coming up as of late. I just want to grab and go time is money people... ^_^

To be clear,
I don't play the **** scratch game more than one time (10 credit what a sell!!!)
(or maybe use free credits from reload event once... not sure i did). So I was lucky in my unluck, BUT no **** put 600 credit on the table for an event EVER.

"OMG, this one guy payed 600 credits to get one card LMAO".
Not ready to do that EVER or this is what premium is

"oh yeah i can buy one card whatever card it is but...but... cost me 600 credit (59$)"
No way I gonna do that, if premium stay as it is...

No place for 4K show on my hard drive, and if had, no screen to play it so double *****...
"You get a little crown next to your name..."
XD LOL
the best answer to the question so far

@Williammeke: The 4K Card will run smoothly depending on the base hardware independent of the type of monitor. In my case, both Mac 2012 (2VRAM - 8 RAM - SSD - 1080p) and Mac 2018 (4 VRAM - 16 RAM - SSD - 5K) run smoothly.
In 1080p the behavior is quite good.

You can update the Cards as follows:

• Check that you have the latest version of iStripper installed
• Touch a CRISTAL PLUS + Card and in resolution you tell it to go down to 4K, if the option does not appear, vote the CARD and reload it.

I leave you a test with video display at 1080p

Jenny Wild / 1080p Test Resolution
https://youtu.be/CB6VrStL9Ps