@Dethrox @haruchai: This is why I am hoping Totem adds the "Special Event" (again, I prefer the "Special Edition" moniker) card to the store for ANYONE to purchase after the promotion ends.

Perhaps the card will be slightly more expensive, as it is a "collector" card ... but at least you will be able to get it if you want it without having to buy "sight unseen".

Fingers crossed this is how they go from now on.

@wtprivate
That would be the ideal yes, even resleasing 6 months later perhaps but releasing at some point to the general buying base.

That would be the ideal yes, even resleasing 6 months later perhaps but releasing at some point to the general buying base.

I agree.

This truly sucks ..why must i spend 360 cr to get this card that i would want ..and then end up maybe with 30 cards from April that i did not want ONE of maybe...this is really stupid TOTEM. Keep going this route and i am done.

Honestly what in the actual fu ck. Like 8 years with a straightforward business model, only to start doing Fortnight garbage? I'm happy to pay a little extra for actual event cards like that cute harley Quin card a few years back. But don't fuckin" strong arm me into paying for a month's lootbox when all of the models and lineups aren't even announced.

And I mean, I dig Josephine, but seriously, that looks like a standard outfit/card that was decided to be a event card last minute when she got some 5 star ratings.

• 8 years payin for cards here and this is my first time with a serious complaint, please don't keep this @#*% up. We're adults here, not the 12 year olds EA monetizes.

Honestly what in the actual fu ck. Like 8 years with a straightforward business model, only to start doing Fortnight garbage? I'm happy to pay a little extra for actual event cards like that cute harley Quin card a few years back. But don't fuckin" strong arm me into paying for a month's lootbox when all of the models and lineups aren't even announced.

And I mean, I dig Josephine, but seriously, that looks like a standard outfit/card that was decided to be a event card last minute when she got some 5 star ratings.
8 years payin for cards here and this is my first time with a serious complaint, please don't keep this @#*% up. We're adults here, not the 12 year olds EA monetizes.

See that like you. I´ll quit this shitt. Like i stoped buying EA Games. 271,45 Credits and GOOD BYE I Stripper then. Thanks Special Events. (I would pay more but no for RNG Packs or Girls.) Was a nice Time but Good Bye!

Pour moi c'est,

======================= NO DEAL ==========================

Toute ressemblance avec l'actu du moment est totalement fortuite...

Hey, at least they're telling us what the special card is, unlike Niemira's christmas card, The 2019 New Year's card and Alyssa Kent's Black Friday card. Had to go hunting through the forums to get that info. So, props for that.

However, I must agree with most of the other comments in this thread. Exclusive cards suck.

I f you want to now what cards coming in April look here:
https://www.isworkshop.eu/showroom/
You don't get the exact day, but an impression what's next.

I gladly accept the deal, seeing as I buy most cards each month anyway, and Josephine is an absolute angel!

There just better not be any damn snakes in these cards next month.

To be fair there looks like there are lots of cards comming up that could be really good, judging by the showroom linked above. By looking at the news feed to see what models have been in the studion recently and going by whats listed as comming soon in the showroom looks like There is another annisa kate and ginebra benucci duo card that is yet to be released so that could well be done next month, looks like a game of thrones cos play card with bonnie inncoming at some point too, more stacy cruz and ava black and leona mia, yes please!! and oxana chic does not seem to have any more snakes with her. Probably gonna be more Hayli sanders and Stella flex as both of those have only just started their run of releases. And the return of Anna Polina

All in all next month looks pretty good !!


**Disclaimer**
Not saying that these are defininitely definitely gonna be out next month this is complete and total speculation but that would be my forcast for the next month and i would say there was a decent chance of us getting cards from these models.

So weighing it up .....

For me 330cr for 30 cards 12 credits each and you know they are all gona be 3k cards as well so none of this slipping in of the low grade early cards that you always get with random selection offers and they are cheaper then you would normally pay.

Plus you get the special card without having to jump through some flaming hoops of death which might get you the card for free later but will probably end up costing you 300 credits anyway.

And i dont have to keep reloading my account, reload once hit button and i am done for the month see you next pay day.

Istripper you got yourself a deal !! but after pay day cause annoyingly i am 3.50 cr short of what i need to buy the thing DOH !!

Honestly what in the actual fu ck. Like 8 years with a straightforward business model, only to start doing Fortnight garbage? I'm happy to pay a little extra for actual event cards like that cute harley Quin card a few years back. But don't fuckin" strong arm me into paying for a month's lootbox when all of the models and lineups aren't even announced.

And I mean, I dig Josephine, but seriously, that looks like a standard outfit/card that was decided to be a event card last minute when she got some 5 star ratings.
8 years payin for cards here and this is my first time with a serious complaint, please don't keep this @#*% up. We're adults here, not the 12 year olds EA monetizes.
See that like you. I´ll quit this shitt. Like i stoped buying EA Games. 271,45 Credits and GOOD BYE I Stripper then. Thanks Special Events. (I would pay more but no for RNG Packs or Girls.) Was a nice Time but Good Bye!

I honestly can't understand totem's angle. The only people who should get this deal are collectors, but they would buy it anyway and so totem loses like 70+ credits on every collector who buys the set...this could end up being hundreds of dollars. The card looks hot so everyone who would have bought it because she is talented can't spend money on it now...so hundreds of other people can't even buy it, but would never spend 300 credits for a whole month of unknown cards. So they might lose hundreds of dollars on a very popular card that people can't buy. The only thing I can imagine is this ***** people to reload if they are < 330...so this fills the coffers artificially, and they are expecting a really bad month of april and some real duds so they get the sales before people see the lineup and stop spending. I can't imagine there are that many people who are ALMOST collectors that would buy this just because of a 20% discount and 1 card.

Wow just reading all these comments you would think they would get the hint about the event cards lol But I have to agree with my fellow members these event cards need to be special either by looks or something else. The star isn't really cutting it guys! plus being able to buy them after the event like one member mentioned would be nice as well, instead of these silly games of chance. I came here to watch girls and collect cards for my collection not gamble because I miss out on a card on a week that you had an event and I was busy. >_<

On a bright note the pre-ordering for the next month cards, I like it very much just like I miss the subcription option you use to have when I first came to iStripper.

I now feel compelled to walk back my rant from yesterday a bit. I still don't dig on the concept of "Special Event" cards. My rant was about making collectors go through the Black Friday obstacle course and the Casino Royale horseshit from two weeks ago. For my purposes, as a full-collection kinda guy, I heartily approve of this weekend's promotion! Personally, I would LOOOOOOVE it if Totem would let us purchase next month's cards in advance EVERY MONTH - even without the additional discount! The additional discount is pretty sweet, though 😉 I can certainly understand, however, that Totem isn't necessarily 100% certain how many cards will be made available for purchase for the next 30 to 31 days. I'm not a fan of dangling an otherwise unobtainable card as an incentive to purchase a full month's cards. Personally, as a collector, I would accept such a promotion without the additional cherry on top. Don't get me wrong - I very much appreciate the cherry!

Here's an idea: Instead of offering a month's worth of cards to include a "Special Event" card AND a discount, why not periodically offer a full week's worth of cards with NO discount but with the inclusion of a "Special Event" card for free? I would think that would satisfy both full-collectors and more discerning collectors.

Perhaps this idea (or something similar) has been presented previously. Please forgive me if this is the case. Anyway, What d'ya think?

I see things going as two ways. Either the company is making money hand over fist with these promotions and the the vocal members on the forum are just a vocal minority or they are trying to ***** long members and drive the product out of business. Seeing a have seen team members bend over backwards to make things right and listen to user input, I really don't see option 2 happening. Giving the opportunity as they provide a wonderful product that keeps me out of shady places where one could get robbed or stabbed, Im for a little faith and seeing where this ship heads.

Well I will tend to side with the previous poster's second option. The company has lost credibility that can't be regained. This weekend's oh so wonderful deal is an attempt to mollycoddle the users 'little head'which seem to be what does most of the thinking around here. Looks like the plan is working too.

Now that the community is lulled into oblivion again, Totem can get away with making more future fiascos like the one two weeks ago.

I now feel compelled to walk back my rant from yesterday a bit. I still don't dig on the concept of "Special Event" cards. My rant was about making collectors go through the Black Friday obstacle course and the Casino Royale horseshit from two weeks ago. For my purposes, as a full-collection kinda guy, I heartily approve of this weekend's promotion! Personally, I would LOOOOOOVE it if Totem would let us purchase next month's cards in advance EVERY MONTH - even without the additional discount! The additional discount is pretty sweet, though 😉 I can certainly understand, however, that Totem isn't necessarily 100% certain how many cards will be made available for purchase for the next 30 to 31 days. I'm not a fan of dangling an otherwise unobtainable card as an incentive to purchase a full month's cards. Personally, as a collector, I would accept such a promotion without the additional cherry on top. Don't get me wrong - I very much appreciate the cherry!

Here's an idea: Instead of offering a month's worth of cards to include a "Special Event" card AND a discount, why not periodically offer a full week's worth of cards with NO discount but with the inclusion of a "Special Event" card for free? I would think that would satisfy both full-collectors and more discerning collectors.

Perhaps this idea (or something similar) has been presented previously. Please forgive me if this is the case. Anyway, What d'ya think?

no

I don't want cards i don't want, how much simpler can i express this?
As a "bonus" from the scratch and sniff sh!t i have a hand full of low res crap cards i never will watch.
I don't mind special events like that for the steampunk card. No reason to buy into it if you don't want, because the card was made public two weeks later.

And i repeat my argument, if Totem wants to sell cards they should produce good ones. PERIOD.

On the other hand, i decided to never buy credits again, so i'm just here watching the ship go down and having fun on the ride while spending the last credits.

Encore une carte que je n'aurais pas .......
Pas question d'acheter des cartes qui me plaisent pas pour en avoir une qui me plait....
Tant pis pour totem ............

Tout à fait d'accord.

On the other hand, i decided to never buy credits again, so i'm just here watching the ship go down and having fun on the ride while spending the last credits.

Despite many recent things that I don't like, am absolutely not going to leave the product. But I am also seeing more and more such statings on the forum, and am starting to be worried about.
Team, please reconsider and stop all this exclusive policy, as soon as possible.

@Chicsans

Although we will never be told this it would be interesting to know next time Totem hold a "Reload Bonus Offer" how many members do not take part because of the Ginebra special event card.
I, for one, am now running down my credits.

@peterbanker

I too am running my credits down. The last credits that I bought was during the first big reloading bonus in Dec. I did not buy any during the last 1320 credit reload offer.


@darn5

Do you have room on the lifeboat for another rat deserting the sinking ship? 😀

Deux extraits ci-dessous écrits par @orclover avec lesquels je suis en parfait accord.

I wish totem would understand that people would invest on patreon blindly if totem would promise improvements to the product like expanded recruiting to north america, western europe, and asia. if they would improve the video quality, costume, performance quality, and props. We would all spend more. This is not going to end well for them or us as they are taking increasing profits while wearing out their fans and not improving their product.

Don't they understand that I can just shrug this card off and go watch 36 hours of Viola, a better looking performer, performing on a better quality card, with better outfits.

En ce qui me concerne, j'achète de moins en moins et éfface de plus en plus
juste après le premier visionnage, y aurait-il un signe?

Et les promotions n'y changeront absolument rien, alors que faire?

Stop those event cards! I wrote it several times before and I am happy about the collectors who criticize this praktice like me! Stop those games and boxes! I want to decide what I buy and nothing else!

I now feel compelled to walk back my rant from yesterday a bit. I still don't dig on the concept of "Special Event" cards. My rant was about making collectors go through the Black Friday obstacle course and the Casino Royale horseshit from two weeks ago. For my purposes, as a full-collection kinda guy, I heartily approve of this weekend's promotion! Personally, I would LOOOOOOVE it if Totem would let us purchase next month's cards in advance EVERY MONTH - even without the additional discount! The additional discount is pretty sweet, though 😉 I can certainly understand, however, that Totem isn't necessarily 100% certain how many cards will be made available for purchase for the next 30 to 31 days. I'm not a fan of dangling an otherwise unobtainable card as an incentive to purchase a full month's cards. Personally, as a collector, I would accept such a promotion without the additional cherry on top. Don't get me wrong - I very much appreciate the cherry!

Here's an idea: Instead of offering a month's worth of cards to include a "Special Event" card AND a discount, why not periodically offer a full week's worth of cards with NO discount but with the inclusion of a "Special Event" card for free? I would think that would satisfy both full-collectors and more discerning collectors.

Perhaps this idea (or something similar) has been presented previously. Please forgive me if this is the case. Anyway, What d'ya think?
no

I don't want cards i don't want, how much simpler can i express this?
As a "bonus" from the scratch and sniff sh!t i have a hand full of low res crap cards i never will watch.
I don't mind special events like that for the steampunk card. No reason to buy into it if you don't want, because the card was made public two weeks later.

And i repeat my argument, if Totem wants to sell cards they should produce good ones. PERIOD.

On the other hand, i decided to never buy credits again, so i'm just here watching the ship go down and having fun on the ride while spending the last credits.

HEAR HEAR!

I see things going as two ways. Either the company is making money hand over fist with these promotions and the the vocal members on the forum are just a vocal minority or they are trying to ***** long members and drive the product out of business. Seeing a have seen team members bend over backwards to make things right and listen to user input, I really don't see option 2 happening. Giving the opportunity as they provide a wonderful product that keeps me out of shady places where one could get robbed or stabbed, Im for a little faith and seeing where this ship heads.

• totem has great customer service
• customer service does not run marketing nor work with investors.
• totem is following tried and true mmo marketing techniques
• they nearly went bankrupt in 2013
• they needed money from investor for relaunch in 2015-2016
• they have to pay back investors, employees, ceo and improve product
• they have moved to what mmos call the "free to play" mode of the game after initial launch
• a year ago the most fervent customer could only max out at about $36 a month based on 30 cards for 13 credit a piece.
• the new special event and gambling model allows addiction to push the spending ceiling up to $100 a month or more...
• So this is nefarious and greedy but very common in the online gaming industry
• This always ends badly for the company and customers
• casual participants notice a drop in quality and an increase in price...
• The product becomes an increasingly small pool of large participants who have all special event cards and feel great about themselves
• Eventually investors drop out and company goes into maitenance mode.
• I actually to not have a problem with the nefarious techniques except they limit investment into product improvement because profit is not based on quality of product but quality of marketing.
• notice totem didn't tout any improvements for 2019, just the continuation of technology and patterns that are limited and even inferior to their initial launch 3-4 year ago.

Encore une carte que je n'aurais pas .......
Pas question d'acheter des cartes qui me plaisent pas pour en avoir une qui me plait....
Tant pis pour totem ............

Tout à fait accord avec cela mais pour une autre carte qui en vaudrait la peine, car Josephine👎

based on the current "special event" cards... they could have had 4 guaranteed card buys from me... guess totem doesn't want my money.... (as it pertains to special event cards only)

wow...

Exactly! That's where I'm at and I'm a new member lol... I'm just only buying credits during the reload bonus and buy only the cards I want at this point...

So this is nefarious and greedy but very common in the online gaming industry
This always ends badly for the company and customers
casual participants notice a drop in quality and an increase in price...
The product becomes an increasingly small pool of large participants who have all special event cards and feel great about themselves

Players leave MMOs for a variety of reasons, including:

• They have played through all the existing content and no new content is being generated
• It's difficult to compete against long-time players who have rare weapons and armor.
• There's a new, hot product that captures their attention.

I don't anticipate these causes of attrition to impact iStripper in the near future. As long as they continue to get attractive and talented girls, then content isn't an issue. My enjoyment isn't impacted by how many special cards are owned by me or anyone else. Lastly, I don't know of any competitive product that would draw all of my attention away from iStripper. In fact, Totem is proactively trying to get the jump on competitive products with iDancer and VR Paradise. Unfortunately, those ventures might have siphoned funds away from developing new features in iStripper, but it is reasonable for Totem to pursue them.