SEC cards are just like any otherPerfect example Angelika Grays SEC - probably her worst card I reckon.
I have almost 3,000 cards purchased over the years. That may be enough.I'm thinking the same with 3,500 now. Never going to watch them all am I. Crazy really.
That's a good way to be. For me however, I realised pretty early that I was a "collector" not a "casual buyer". Completion is an important part of that equation - and I suspect why Totem originally used the idea of "Cards" for their shows.
Similar to yourself, I've had to set my limit on collecting now because of these promotions that limit access to cards. I'm sure Totem doesn't care - but I will be leaving iStripper (keeping my collection, but not buying any of the new cards) once my credits are gone.
It's a shame - I would be very happy to keep buying shows - and even paying a premium for the SECs ... but they insist on these unfair and opaque "gambling games" (which in truth aren't gambling at all - since they don't publish any odds despite repeated requests to do so ... I suspect this is because the odds are DYNAMIC and adjusted to maximise their profits - but I digress).
In simple terms, Totem would rather LOSE customers (even big spending ones) than provide a fair product at a fair price. To me, that is the end of the relationship.
And as you say, @wrightsaywow ... I'm probably never going to watch all the shows anyway, so I can be satisified once my collection is "Complete".
I remember the company ***** somewhere that the user retention rate is very low long-term and veteran customers who engage on the forums nd interact are white whales - not because of the spending in the common understanding of being a whale on the internet nowadays, but because we are so rare.
I've also severely limited my amount of purchases (normally I'd have reloaded at least a couple of times between now and Black Friday, but I am still not even 50% done with the credits I got then) and am rewatching older cards, commenting on them and rating them to get to know what I want to keep and what I'm deleting.
I have no problem with not getting all cards, but I can see where a compulsive buyer will be bummed by not having all the cards made available to them. Like
@TallandSlimMan said, SEC are no different from other cards (even some normal cards have extra features that SEC don't have, like the Akali-themed Audalove card etc) it's just their artificial scarcity that's driving their price in the eyes of some customers.
I know Totem is appealing to these users and exploiting their desire/want/flaw and I also don't like that.
