@pumpdude48 I applaud you.
I restricted myself to spend 100 credits, and that´s it. Got nothing special out of it, but I can understand the problem that you allways have 2 stars for the special event or 100 tickets. Personally I wouldn´t mind it at all if there would also be the situation where you only have 1 star, but that´s not happening, at least not from my experience.
This way it kinda looks rigged, but overall I cannot ***** about the outcome.

@HSS

@PD48: Dayam, dude! I found myself looking for typos in that, 'novel.'Couldn't have put it better, my friend 😇

I cheated and did it online via Firefox which has spell checker.... 😉

Sorry for the "wordiness" but I couldn't completely express my opinion any shorter.

But thanks for the positive response. (Thanks to those that did reply above)

Frankly I expected flames instead of what I got.

So an unexpected but pleasant surprise.

G'night sir!

One of the constants I see in many of the complaints is: "I spent 1000 credits or 650 credits" (or much worse) and all I got were a few older cards or a few small 'cash back' wins etc etc etc and no special event card etc etc. How can intelligent people let things get so far out of hand? As far as I can tell there is no gun being held to people's heads, making them to keep pressing the button and further to make them get out their credit card to continue their folly.

I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I'm guessing we all see it the same way: This company sells a product! They have made several desirable versions of the product. They have made it impossible to buy these desirable versions of the product! Instead, the only way to acquire this is through pure luck. Worse, there is literally no way we can know if there is true randomness behind the mechamism, we have only their word, that it's not rigged, we can't even see the odds of winning.

A person could literally spend thousands of dollars/euros and still never get these cards, if it's truly random. Not even Bugattie or Ferrari treats their customers that poorly with their special editions. Any of their customers could still get that super special edition car if they just spend enough money, no luck involved.

Imagine if grocery stores or clothes shops did this. You want a lobster tail or filet mignon? $1 entry on the roulette wheel please. No guarantee you'll get that steak, but after spending $5,000 you'll have some cans of beans and green beans to go home with.

I personally have no problem with gambling and have willingly played the other gambling games Totem has had and enjoyed them. This has nothing to do with gambling, this is about exclusivety through pure dumb luck and because of that is a 100% money grab by the company with very slim benefits to their customers (pretty sure the progressive packs and maybe the slot machine are way better deals card/cost wise for even the luckiest person in this game).

Yes, there were a few people who whined about not instantly winning the SEC on the first 1-2 scratchers they tried, but if you go back and look at the majority of the posts, what most people are really upset is the argument I presented above.

If we all just said "no", you could buy your Melena and other cards just like the other thousand or more you already purchased. I don't play these games anymore, but so many others here do, that Totem has no choice but to do business this way. Do you expect them to walk away from customers who will spend 200 credits or more on a single SE card, while also buying "dud" cards that they don't want.
If we just didn't Scratch, the SE cards would end. And Totem would retail Melena's SE card the same way they did all her prior cards. But you need to just say NO!

Totem have done it again.
Another special event card with no defined pathway to obtain it.
Presumably Totem are happy to lose loyal customers.
I will not be topping up my credit balance in the future so presumably Totem have worked out that they are getting more money from people playing these scratchcard games where you might not win anything.
Same with the Joker card, you might have hundreds of entries in the draw and win nothing.

I agree!

It's really annoying that Totem does nothing for long-time (well paying) customers. Except for the diamond status.

Now I have all the cards. Except for a special event card. And the only way away is this gambling again? Not cool. So you lose your customers.

Now I have all the cards. Except for a special event card. And the only way away is this gambling again? Not cool. So you lose your customers.

A number of people have said this - but like you have apparently continued to be customers. Totem can see the results of each of their special offers, including the special events, and as they continue to offer them we can be pretty sure that the number of lost customers is not high enough to be a major concern.

I don't like the special events nor do I like the gambling games but as long as they are profitable I suspect that we will continue to see them (and perhaps we indirectly profit from delaying possible price increases)

The models in some of the cards I won look pretty weak but I will give them a look at in time.
Who knows maybe I would be introduced to a model who surprises me.
I wonder if the models get residuals every time one of their cards are bought.
If this does happen then I should consider it as giving to charity towards a model that has low purchase rates on her cards.
The only thing is if the model is good but in 720p then I still will most likely not buy her remaining shows.
At this point let's be honest most people do not buy 720p cards and I am far from owning all 1080p cards but 720p still shows up in these offers for me. I don't plan to install the girls I won at the moment but is the Oliva Sin SEC really that bad?
There should be some kind of checkbox on these promotions to let you choose your resolution levels and xxx levels so you only get card types you like and if there are not enough of your choices left in the system for you to play it notifies you and it is up to you to choose if you want to go down a res or up an xxx level. This may be complicated but it could be possible or just put a notice on the machine. Includes 720p and 480p shows etc.

As far as I can tell there is no gun being held to people's heads, making them to keep pressing the button and further to make them get out their credit card to continue their folly.

I'm sure you know that's not how addiction works. Other than this, brilliant post and pretty much covers all of the points necessary to get across.

Totem can see the results of each of their special offers, including the special events, and as they continue to offer them we can be pretty sure that the number of lost customers is not high enough to be a major concern.

Kinda like how EA, Bethesda, Activision and other major gaming businesses can tell most of their customer base to ***** off. Peoples' addiction to "Surprise Mechanics" enables this.

As much as i love Melena but after 100 Trys i gave up, i've should have been wiser and not even try to get it.

So now there will be 4 cards I can't get because I won't play the gambling games. Dissapointing. I see there's a few of the triple diamond club here that feel the same. I like my discount but a great triple diamond benefit would be another method for the serious collectors to get the special event cards.

play the scratch game to get free credits, and chances to win a joker card :) you can exchange a joker card for a special event card :)

As much as i love Melena but after 100 Trys i gave up, i've should have been wiser and not even try to get it.

it means you have 100 chances to win a joker card... and to exchange your joker card for Malena's special event one :)

Au final cette magnifique carte de Melena Maria Rya/hot and roll m'a coûtée 407 crédits.25 cartes horribles que je ne téléchargerai jamais, merci du cadeau lol.i$tripper est devenu un casino avec tous ces jeux et c'est bien dommage.Peu importe des promotions a venir, Je ne rechargerai plus mes crédits.Bye Bye Totem 👍😄😉

et donc 407 chances de gagner une carte joker à échanger contre n'importe quelle carte du store, y compris les cartes exclues :)
et pour les cartes gagnées mais non voulues, n'hésitez pas à demander leur retrait de votre collection si vous êtes parfaitement sûr de ne jamais les regarder (ce qui est dommage à mon avis, on a souvent de bonnes surprises sur ces shows...)

@number 6, You are right I did buy 5 tickets! But havingplasyed once with only 2 'S's I don't know how to play again. I seem stuck on the image I posted.Any ideas as to how to proceed with 4 more goes?

please make sure you scratch COMPLETELY the circles, other wise the system will consider you haven't scratched at all :)

I have won 3 cards but they never actually appear i my collection...Older cards probably no longer available.

old cards not available anymore would not appear in any game...
they must appear in your collection like they actually do in our database. Please check again :)
thx

As much as i love Melena but after 100 Trys i gave up, i've should have been wiser and not even try to get it.

it means you have 100 chances to win a joker card... and to exchange your joker card for Malena's special event one :)

Yes, a 100 chances out of how much...ten thousands? So not quite a high probability... It's lottery after all ;)

@gkar45, I don't know if you managed to get the image, but just in case here it is:
https://webcdn.desktopware.com/img/newspromo/joker.jpg

@guvato Based on my experience, you can't win any card that is newer than 45 days (except for the new special event card of Melena)...

Updating my own earlier post: unlike some of the earlier promos, this time the 45 day limit seems to be refreshed while the promotion is ongoing. In one of the earlier promos it seemed to be so that the limit was set once the promo started: you could only win cards that were 45+ days old on the first day of that promo. None of the cards that became 45+ days old while the promotion lasted, were available to win at any point.

This time, it seems that the day limit is updated during the promo. When I played on Friday, "regular" card wins stopped altogether once I had won the last of the missing cards 45+ days old.

Now that I spinned a few more times (= making my Joker stakes get from 192 to even 200 for heck of it :) ), I won Madison's "Sunny Day" (45 days at the time of playing today), Florane Russell's "Unleashed" (45 days at the time of playing today) and Valeria Borghese's "Up For Review" (47 days at the time of playing today).

Above is just to let you know that you can win more cards now up until thursday than you could win on weekend.

dont play stupid games, you only get stupid prizes.

Consider this: I have already lost 2 members of my family to ***** related to gambling addictions. After that happened I made a promise to myself to never touch a slot machine or scratch card or anything else related to gambling for as long as I live. How then is someone like me ever going to be able to get my hands on any of the special event cards if the only way to ever obtain them is to gamble for them?

Perhaps totem could offer the special event cards as timed exclusives, ie after say six months they make them available for regular purchase. They could even charge a higher than normal price for them as I would still be willing to pay extra for a card of a girl I am interested in as long as I didn't have to gamble for it.

How appropo for Friday the 13th. An unlucky event for an unlucky day! Totem really knows how to celebrate this holiday!

Meanwhile:
All cards released are bugged...

I guess it's easier to code this stupid gambling crap then producing quality content.

Why am i still here

cannot agree with @pumpude at all

Clearly he has never heard of gam,bling addictyion, and its a very real problem. I just not as easy as saying "dont do it"

theirs places for ppl with addication problems. GA, AA,, AT & a few other places. hell AAA. or just say No, not today. this program & Porn is addicitive so why????

Or Totem can be respectful too pople that support them every time a new card comes out that they (myself) incl;uded will eargly buy, instead of promoting crtads as "rare" and "special" and hiding them behind mechanics

This is a fairly new addition to totem. this gamblingf stuff, never had it years ago, then you would just be able to buy "special occasion cards", thers like 40 of them. But gambling is here, and it works, and it brings in lots and lost of money from p[eople like ME.

Even if most peopel are like you and can say NO, and simply not do it, totem only need a small % of peopel to spend massiovly over the value of the individual card to make it profitable..

And please dont preach AA and AAA and what like too me, i tried to quit this addiction, for 2 years i was away. its never as :"easy" as you like to pretend

you ask so why? better minds than mine, and yours dont really know the WHY people like myself take part in what is obvously bad for them, but that is addiction. and even though i said i will not spend any more on totem, i played the damn thing 20 more times today!

I have to agree with several of the replies to this topic - I don't like your gambling games. The ONLY reason I would play is to get a Joker card to get a special event card. Without knowing the odds of your gambling game, I'm not going to play. Especially since I think that most of the "prizes" I could get is a card I wouldn't buy with my credits. I won't buy a card, and yet you want me to gamble to receive one of those cards?

again. you miss the point, at this stage you refuse to understand

i preach nothing. do show me where i preached or even talked about ODDS. and again you clearly demonstarte the ignorance of what i am saying.

But you like argue, i refuse too. I ***** well know its not a good thing for me, if you underestand the nature of addictions you would have a little more compassion understanding

also im clearly not the only one having an issue with the way special event cards are being presented

& i'm not dumb enought ta do it again

it has nothign to do with intellect. or being "dumb". thansk for the implication that i am dumb enough to do so, should the moderatorts l;ook at you for your personal ***** and character judgments?

i would retort with s snaky low class quip like "get it, got it, good" too. but im above that, do you even know where that saying even come from?

you however wish to make some one else's problem are problem it's not,

there are many "special occasion cards", (50 something) which is what these special event cards were originally. see my actual post "special occasions" which are unique costumnes and themes which cards have, much like these new gable to get :special events" , and the picture above

you however wish to make some one else's problem are problem it's not,

i am not, im merely pointing out that this is a problem i have, am i not allowed to talk about a problem i clearly have with this ? well sorry!

Looks like the two of you need to step back for a moment and settle down

i would havem but i dislike being called dumb over somthing i struggle to control. my addiction.

dismissed like its nothing!

there are many "special occasion cards", (50 something) which is what these special event cards were originally.

No - the "special occasion" cards are very different from the "special event" cards.

No - the "special occasion" cards are very different from the "special event" cards.

both are generally nicely themed cards, with unique costuming. the only diffence is how they are distrubuted