The announcement has obviously stimulated interest among the membership and is giving rise to a lot of questions and just as many guesses and assumptions. 😊

Just be patient - Celine, Jon and the team will provide us with more information to flesh out what we have been given an insight into.

😊😊😊

What can I say... as I just wrote about twenty days ago:"after almost four years of "activity" (during which I put together more than 4500 cards, more than half of which were "unwanted") I decided to wait to buy the next two Belka cards, spend the last remaining credits and withdraw from the game (I already have two entries ready to activate in my firewall, so as not to be "disturbed" by unwanted ads).I'm sorry, but not being the least bit interested in NFT & DOLZ, gambling & SEC and having also noticed a progressive deterioration in the quality of the shows (without necessarily talking only about blur ...) I feel I have no other choice.I then activated my "countdown"...."I bought the two Belka cards and now I know for sure when my countdown will end....P.S. One could argue about the "exceptional quality" of some of the latest shows....

Do you have constructive criticism? All I see is somebody needing to whine and "take their ball home" because they are upset about something they won't clearly define. This is petulant ***** behavior. The camera/sound mistakes have happened occasionally over the last 10 years and are nothing new. Ill make some criticism of the past so you can understand constructive criticism?

1. Most old shows have very small clips, 50-100 seconds and only 3-4 full nudity.
2. Cards were 1080, 720, some were even lower quality
3. Very few girls had any dance skills whatsoever in the past or even strip-tease skills such as flashing breasts or pulling panties to the side, or twerking.
4. No xxx in regular cards and then all xxx in deskbabe cards. Boring lesbian cards meant many girls didn't do any dancing cards.
5. Outfits were either very cheap or ugly, nearly all girls wore heels, no different kinds of outfits or role play or acting. Go back through your collection and find a girl with Tennis shoes or cute boots in the past, almost impossible.
6. Swing clips were a waste of time and ssd space.
7. Very few exclusive girls, nearly all girls were from czech republic or hungary and were pornstars. Now we get girls like Tatiana Coco who has only performed for istripper, or more recently Carla Vyxx who hasn't produced anything else professionally.
8. More diversity now. Many more girls from South America, Asia and it seems as dolz revs up they are now going to Paris and Germany, or more expensive places.

I wouldn't be such a simp for totem but the list above shows that they constantly innnovate and attempt to make the product better so maybe give some constructive criticism and maybe your advice will taken. ***** unspecific criticisms to merely show displeasure does no good. And no they aren't going to remove money making projects that have no impact on the product because YOU don't feel like playing.

@orclover

Swing clips were a waste of time and ssd space

Your opinion it is

But only a Jedi Master feels the full ***** of the swing clips.

Patience you must have...

and maybe a Balloon scene to play them on: https://bit.ly/3BwmVeu

Every time I take a survey for how to improve iStripper, my answer is always the same...

NOW especially more than ever, it should come to fruition if iStripper wants to be FAIR TO THEIR CONSUMERS.

Every time there is a show with poor video or audio quality, simply saying "Sorry" and charging full price is a HUGE DISRESPECT to the people who PAY YOU MONEY. (And now you expect them to pay you more money.)

Shows with poor quality should be discounted. How much? I don't know. 20%? 30%? 50%?
Be fair to your customers. Even 10% would be shitty, but still shows you care SOMEWHAT about the people who fund your ability to film girls dancing everyday instead of working a real job, and shows you care SOMEWHAT about delivering those customers a good product, and that you are ashamed when you mess up video quality when TEST SHOOTING FOR VIDEO AND AUDIO ERRORS BEFORE SHOOTING THE ACTUAL SCENE could fix this issue entirely.

You wouldn't work at McDonald's and say to all your customers "Sorry, we're out of fries and soda. Enjoy just a burger. Pay me for the fries and drink anyway."

You wouldn't sell a chair with 2 legs and say "Sorry, pay me full price for the other 2 legs anyway."

Will the credit packs amount/cost stay the same?

Every time I take a survey for how to improve iStripper, my answer is always the same...NOW especially more than ever, it should come to fruition if iStripper wants to be FAIR TO THEIR CONSUMERS.Every time there is a show with poor video or audio quality, simply saying "Sorry" and charging full price is a HUGE DISRESPECT to the people who PAY YOU MONEY. (And now you expect them to pay you more money.)Shows with poor quality should be discounted. How much? I don't know. 20%? 30%? 50%?Be fair to your customers. Even 10% would be shitty, but still shows you care SOMEWHAT about the people who fund your ability to film girls dancing everyday instead of working a real job, and shows you care SOMEWHAT about delivering those customers a good product, and that you are ashamed when you mess up video quality when TEST SHOOTING FOR VIDEO AND AUDIO ERRORS BEFORE SHOOTING THE ACTUAL SCENE could fix this issue entirely.You wouldn't work at McDonald's and say to all your customers "Sorry, we're out of fries and soda. Enjoy just a burger. Pay me for the fries and drink anyway."You wouldn't sell a chair with 2 legs and say "Sorry, pay me full price for the other 2 legs anyway."

You analogy isn't accurate. You do not have a subscription to totem. You make a choice whether to buy a card or not and even the premium is with explicit knowledge that you may not want all of the cards in the month, although totem is nice enough to tell you what is coming for the next 40 days. If you were running a company and there were slight to moderate variations in quality you would have to make a choice...give a discount and acknowledge that the hard work of your studio is subpar and create a culture in the office and above that honest mistakes cost the company money. Or you tell the customers that the cards are not to normal quality due to an honest mistake and they can make a choice or not to buy at full price. Choice 1 costs the studio money guarenteed. Choice 2 give the customer a choice to skip the card or pay full price as many customers may not care about slight variations in quality.

use this text filter in the store, then subtract the Coming Soon cards

/regex a0|a1|C0|d0|e0|e1|f0|f1

Or, if you have not installed the male stripper version of the app, use the simpler regular expression

/regex .

which also, currently, shows 5740 cards. The full stop means that the expression matches any string that contains at least one character.

@Wyldanimal has the male cards which is why he needs to use the longer form of the expression.

if iStripper wants to be FAIR TO THEIR CONSUMERS.Every time there is a show with poor video or audio quality, simply saying "Sorry" and charging full price is a HUGE DISRESPECT to the people who PAY YOU MONEY.

No it is not. As long as they make it clear that there is a problem then it is not disrespectful in any way. You don't have to buy the cards.

Shows with poor quality should be discounted.

What do you think discounts offered by any business are for. It is not to be nice to their customers but to increase profits by increasing the number of sales to offset the reduction in price. If a business concludes that the the increase in sales would be small, particularly if it was too small to compensate for the price reduction, then they should not offer the discount.

I don't mind the price increase and the new levels, which means I will pay a credit or two more than before. That's fine.

I do hope that the NFT-focus will get re-evaluated and we will see exciting new developments for the core product.

Let me try to answer all your questions :

1/ No change for the current Premium offer

2/ your VIP levels have always taken the Special Event Cards into account. It will also be the case of the level MASTER et the honorific title of Elite

3/ For the honorific title of Elite which will unlock for free a membership to iStripper mobile : it will be re-evaluated every 10 days and cut in case you don't own max cards. It will then come back once you reach the max again.

4/ the cards removed from catalog but in your collection are taken into account in the counting. Some of you have more cards in their collection than the # of cards available, and will see for ex in their profile: 6100/5900. This will grant them the Elite title.

5/ "coming soon" shows won't be taken into account in the total shows to reach, indeed

Do I forget something ?
Cheers

Insulting and defamatory messages are not permitted in this forum.Trading cards are neither a scam nor a crap.If you're not interested, that's your choice. No need to be insulting.

I agree.
Oh btw, thanks for the heads up about the price increase, but I think that is the least of my issues though.

Well *****, good thing I didn't renew my Premium Status @ $60 the other day. I thought about it but this hobby is hard enough to afford as is and I'm not in the best of finacial status. I keep up my collection because I don't want it to get behind. All I'm missing of the Istripper cards is some SECs but I still have a bunch of old Virtuagirl cards not collected yet. Standard cards cost me 13.75 currently with the overpriced "special" cards costing 16.50 (many of which leave me questioning why they command the extra price). So now in order to keep up with my collection I'm now going to be paying 15 credits each and cosplay will be 17.50? Are credit card and paypal buyers going to be given a better deal than the 600 credits for $50 on bonus sales? Because this is starting to sound like something becoming unaffordable for the same standard product already being offered at a lower rate. It just seems illogical that your company costs have inflated considering there is no physical product or shipping. It's all digital and can be deleted at the push of a button. Are we getting bigger porn stars like Angela White or Lana Rhoades? Or is it because the big bosses in the company need a second yacht or a 4th vacation to Dubai next year? The 50% off thing is better than my current 45% but is it really when it will cost me an additional 37.50 credits per month? When I had premium I was paying 11 credits each so this is going to be an additional 4 credits each or 120 per month for the same product offered at current rates. Fyi, increasing prices on the same exact product is not good business sense. You should be offering a better product to match that increase otherwise you lose customers en masse. Does this seem right to you?

Aaaah, une augmentation de prix, ce n'est jamais une bonne nouvelle 😒 Mais je peux le comprendre.
Merci en tout cas de l'annonce d'avertissement et de la création du statut Master.
Une petite requête cependant, afin d'adoucir ce cout supplémentaire, pourriez vous mettre en œuvre le bonus de rechargement avec le pack maxi de 1100 Cr? Ceci permettrait de faire baisser ma liste de souhaits avant Septembre😆 Merci😉

Aaaah, a price increase is never good news 😒 But I can understand it.
Thank you in any case for the warning announcement and the creation of Master status.
One small request though, in order to sweeten this extra cost, could you implement the reload bonus with the 1100 Cr max pack? This would lower my wishlist before September😆 Thank you😉

Fyi, increasing prices on the same exact product is not good business sense.

So, according to you, almost every business that I have interracted with over the last few years is indulging in the poor business practice of raising prices to counteract rising costs. It has been quite a few years since Totem last changed the price of their product during which time their costs must have risen significantly.

It is a good thing to adjust the offer.

Members who possess all the cards in the catalog will be granted the honorary title of "ELITE." This status unlocks not only the 50% discount but also grants free and unlimited access to mobile shows.

When you say "all catalog sheets" I assume that only active sheets are counted, not the sheets of models that have decided not to be published anymore?

It is a good thing to adjust the offer.Members who possess all the cards in the catalog will be granted the honorary title of "ELITE." This status unlocks not only the 50% discount but also grants free and unlimited access to mobile shows.When you say "all catalog sheets" I assume that only active sheets are counted, not the sheets of models that have decided not to be published anymore?

As per Celine's message above:

4/ the cards removed from catalog but in your collection are taken into account in the counting. Some of you have more cards in their collection than the # of cards available, and will see for ex in their profile: 6100/5900. This will grant them the Elite title.

I read that as it being a bonus when having the removed cards in your collection. If you don't have them, you just need to get all the cards available. If you have them, you will still be ELITE as long as your total amount of cards (including the removed cards) tops the total amount of available cards at the moment. But I could have read that wrong of course.

One small request though, in order to sweeten this extra cost, could you implement the reload bonus with the 1100 Cr max pack? This would lower my wishlist before September😆 Thank you😉

Good idea @Philours . Fingers crossed for that.

jist one questin o the sorr "poor qaiity "...message .
Can this be seen before you buy the show or only after ??

Some people seem suprised that others are a bit upset at the price rise. I will qualify for one of the new levels, but I will still pay more for each card.

For mine, it's an unwelcome reality of life. I don't think the product has fundamentally "evolved" for years. That's not a bad thing - it's a great and unique product. Sure resolutions have improved, but the basic product of shows on your desktop hasn't.

I agree with some that trading cards etc. are dumb and not core product (I wanted the option removed from the UI!), so it doesn't sit well with me that the money spent on "evolving" the product into this area has contributed to the price rise (maybe?).

I'm ***** so pretty sure I will continue to be a customer. Doesn't mean I need to be happy when prices rise.

I don't think the product has fundamentally "evolved" for years.

That's the thing about inflation. My beer hasn't evolved in centuries, still the price has gone up about 30% in the last year only.

I don't think the product has fundamentally "evolved" for years.That's the thing about inflation. My beer hasn't evolved in centuries, still the price has gone up about 30% in the last year only.

Aha you beat me @mdekker ! And we never said we were increasing prices cause of quality changes... (see the first sentence of this thread)..

Plus :yes, @domino006 iStripper is a digital product but it is made by and with real people... models take the plane, taxis, etc... studio uses electricity, material, outfits, etc... post production team work on computers, etc. We all live in the same world...

If you can get a more cost-effective discount price over time like the games on the steam platform, then I can still accept it. Otherwise it's not very acceptable.

Otherwise it's not very acceptable.

And yet many many people will accept it.

If you can get a more cost-effective discount price over time like the games on the steam platform, then I can still accept it. Otherwise it's not very acceptable.

Do you get 40% discount on new games? You get it on new iStripper cards.

Wow! You guys are going to lose a lot of your complainers... or better yet they are going to stay and continue to pay and just ***** louder. Not me though, I enjoy your content so keep it coming.

People are free to ***** as long as they do not get insulting or make derogatory comments about the team.

Personally, I have no issue with this increase. Totem make a good, honest product that I enjoy and hope to continue to enjoy
putting cost into perspective, $50 US for 500 credits equals 10 cents per credit. (600 credit bonus is 8 cents each)
The increase (to me) will be 1.25 credits (25 - 45% = 13.75. 30- 50% = 15) so ... 12.5 cents per card

I bet you all still go and fill your car with gas/petrol even when the price increases 35 cents (or more) OVERNIGHT.

Buy what you can afford and enjoy ... dont blame Totem for passing on increasing costs, it's how business works.

I did say PERSONALLY .. I realize it will affect others more.

I don't have a problem with the price increase but the only tolerable thing about the exclusive cards was the thought that Totem was using those to crank up profits. If the exclusive cards are not extremely profitable then why do it?

I haven't bought credits in a very long time but think I will when the offer and my feelings about Totem improves; I was thinking by Christmas or New Years there will be enough shows I can't live without and a offer that compels me. It looks like even if there is a deal it will now cost me more in the future than it would today. Most of the cards I want are DOLZ cards (many are not yet released) and that's never going to happen so there is no urgency to buy now; I will pay more per card later and certainly buy even fewer cards. I plan on making my next credit buy last me at least a couple years.

If the exclusive cards are not extremely profitable then why do it?

I think that the effect of having the SECs available only as prizes has the effect of increasing the participation in the games such that although when you play the games the users may, on average, end up paying something like the normal rate for any cards that they purchase they also, on average, end up buying more of them than they otherwise would - we know thatthere are people who ***** about winning cards they would never have bought directly.

The average cost per card via the games may not be more than when buying the same cards directly, or it may even decrease, but if more are "sold" as a result of the SECs then that makes them profitablet. Of course if the average cost of winning a card is greater than that for buying one the effect of SECs will be even higher.