I too used to get upset about the rating/voting system until the team posted their year end review of the best selling cards of 2019 and realized those scores have no great relevance on total sells.

Bad Barbie's card has a overall score of 4.16*
Kay J's card 4.37*
any others in the 4.4 only one card tops 4.8

I wouldn't pay "to much" attention to the rating scale.

If I remember correctly there was a card that was marked/scored quite low and had nothing to do with the woman.
It was a Christmas card, but was more of a new years eve card.
all the negative comments were about it not being christmas.

@pantalone

I also think that sites such as iStripper might be the ones to benefit from current situation.

The way I see current porn industry, I find it horribly tasteless and becoming more and more disgustingly extreme. The women in the industry are encouraged to do more and more extreme acts (anal, hardcore, *****, etc.). I absolutely ***** that trend, and loath people who get their kicks off from watching women *****, violated, *****, tormented... (real or simulated).

I really hope this crisis will either put Brazzers, Lethal and similar sites out of business or at least make them change drastically the content they produce.

The women in the industry should somehow get together, form a union if needed... to formulate some commonly accepted rules of what they agree to do and what they don't accept. This could be a right moment to do that - maybe even put up their own website or production outlet.

MetArt, MetArtX, SexArt, EternalDesire... and sites like that (concentrating heavily on solo performances) should be the winners of the current crisis.

Yep! She sure got me!!
You Evil Woman
You Tease!
You Lying Manipulator!
Yeaaahhh Baby!
I’m Yours!

I still think that economics will drive the quality of the shows here.
Performers will compete for modelling work with surviving businesses and the Totem team, who have been prudent enough to keep their business going through the pandemic, will have the pick of the best performers around.

It may look a quite cynical way of thinking about the future situation, but it's probable things will really go like so.

Who's the girl in the Oktoberfest badge?

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I think that lovely lady is Kate Shoo.

Ok that must be her jam 😊

I wonder if it was played in the studio 😶

We could debate the pre-Covid quality of the performers till we're blue in the face.

I still think that economics will drive the quality of the shows here. Pretty much all national economies are taking a battering right now, with massive unemployment, over-loaded social security safety-nets and people's net disposable income crashing. Plus, right now, people can't travel.

So nobody can get to the strip clubs or escort agencies in Eastern Europe. They'll go bust without tourism and the performers will have no work and probably no social security, since they were not full-time employees working in their home towns. Even when lockdown eases, punters can't afford to take expensive holidays in Kiev and even the normally affluent will be reluctant to fly the girls around and pay them $500 an hour or whatever.

This will be good for iStripper! Performers will compete for modelling work with surviving businesses and the Totem team, who have been prudent enough to keep their business going through the pandemic, will have the pick of the best performers around.

So maybe strippers will go down to $20-a-barrel. Or is that just too Brent Crude? Always look on the bright side of life, da dum, da dum.....

Someone should have asked...

mentirosa manipuladora

***** liar

lying manipulator

Also the name of an Alblum / song
https://play.google.com/music/preview/Tqblehzm4u5267qb6flkfxkf2ie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfqLjGAT4HI

No thanks for me @Missy?😳

@orclover Reacting on your comment on her show: Agatha Vega has done 8 movies for W4B and 4 for Nubiles. So she's used to the camera and not shy or inexperienced. I don't known anything about the chemistry between her and the director.
The show with this dress is taken on her first day in the studio. The inviting for the fansign is on the first day.
More info here: https://www.thenude.eu/Agatha%20Vega_41079.htm#videos

I love tattoos so I see this as an win

Hey guys relax! I’ll take the blame for the ***** comment!
Downloaded, Played the show, didn’t Bother to look😵 closely, Jumped to a Bad conclusion.
I commented Favorably about Agatha’s show , regardless was corrected-thankfully by another member.
Agatha did the trick for me!! Yeah! She’s a Keeper!

Please don’t get your Panties in a Bunch over this
Sheesh✌

I too used to get upset about the rating/voting system until the team posted their year end review of the best selling cards of 2019 and realized those scores have no great relevance on total sells.

Bad Barbie's card has a overall score of 4.16*
Kay J's card 4.37*
any others in the 4.4 only one card tops 4.8

I wouldn't pay "to much" attention to the rating scale.

Imagine being a new user though...you literally have thousands of cards to choose from..each costs $2.50, which is a lot for 45 minutes of non-b/g porn. Ratings are key to getting somebody "hooked", in fact I went from 10 cards to hundreds based off of a now-defunct site that clearly rated every single card. Of course it is just one card but inevitably people are going to ignore the rest of hers thinking she has red scars.

Within a set of cards the ratings are surprisengly trustworthy. Most scores below 4.6 are cards that are either boring, have physical, or technical flaws...scores above this tend to maximize what the girl has to offer...so you may not like the girl but a high rating means she is physically and technically well represented.

Take Belka's 1st xxx card. To many, the most highly anticipated card in a long time. It barely has a rating of 4.6...that is much lower than her entire first set that were all above 4.7. I could immediately look at that rating an know the card must be a let down because Belka doing xxx should be an automatic 5...except it doesn't maximize Belka, and people rated it lower.

At Agatha's back a tattoo with our solar system: above the Sun, then Mercurius, Venus and Earth with the South-American continent showing! Her home continent!👍

All tattoos are scars in my view.

I knew from pics on Lukaszr's fine site that the breast tats were not scars. In my opinion, they are also not attractive.

I too used to get upset about the rating/voting system until the team posted their year end review of the best selling cards of 2019 and realized those scores have no great relevance on total sells.

Bad Barbie's card has a overall score of 4.16*
Kay J's card 4.37*
any others in the 4.4 only one card tops 4.8

I wouldn't pay "to much" attention to the rating scale.

There was a thread about this a while ago but in reality the rating system is too basic and too open to being used to express people's personal agendas. If they don't like XXX, rate a nudity-only card low - and vice versa.

Until a more scientific objective approach is implemented,it will always not be worth the paper it's not printed on 😄

In the meantime, when I first saw the tattoos I thought "huh!" but it took me all of around 5 seconds to realise they couldn't be scars. Agatha has a fabulous figure and high potential - my only regret about her card was that she wore a dress like that and didn't do a single pantyless upskirt - now that is a hanging offence!

😉😉😉

I too used to get upset about the rating/voting system until the team posted their year end review of the best selling cards of 2019 and realized those scores have no great relevance on total sells.

Bad Barbie's card has a overall score of 4.16*
Kay J's card 4.37*
any others in the 4.4 only one card tops 4.8

I wouldn't pay "to much" attention to the rating scale.

In first couple of months of 2020, though, new models did tend to be slightly worse, anyway it maybe would have been just a short moment (I remember it has been said, many times, that winter and Xmas times are not so good for shootings)

I don't agree. The month's April, May and June 2019 were the worst of all for me. There were weeks I didn't buy any card, which hadden't happened since December 2013. The general level has gone upward. Less models who don't go further than a shake to the left and a shake to the right and look sweetly/mysterious at the camera(man). It all depends of what kind of show you like: the top for me so far is Elis (for others Belka, who had all the skills and is the highest rated model ever and when were her shows...). And therefore I again ask for a TAKE 2 of ELIS!

@orclover Thanks for starting this thread. It's so unright what has happened to Agatha.

People who took that tattoo as a ***** need to have their eyes examined.

@orclover I have to say that - while not to all - I agree with some of your statings. We could discuss together about such important quality matters; but it looks unluckily quite unuseful, since only thing the average user looks to be interested in, now, is getting the 4:20 achievement...

Anyway, I recently started a thread on Ideas & Suggestion our discussion's matters could have some relevance to; feel free to add your considerations there, if you like to.

https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/44668/1?post=661671

In this case it is not the system's fault. It's the fault of a bunch of mor... - ekhm, "users" - who mistook tattoos for scars.

Ratings are made by users... so it's precisely what I too did try to point 😉

They need to reinvest these easy earnings from the gambling and SE back into the productDuring 2019, that has be done indeed (VR shows, 4K cam, new codec and better video quality - and there have been better beauties and better performances also). In first couple of months of 2020, though, models have been got slightly worse, but maybe it would have been just a moment (I remember it has been said, many times, that winter and Xmas times are not so good for shootings) and probably things were about to change again - but then COVID-19 arrived...

The issue with the "new content" is it requires additional expense so you can't call that reinvestment. Charging such an exhorbinant price for VR is like charging for pictures...10 minutes for the price of multiple cards, 4k is another slap in the face because it requires the triple diamond consumer to sacrifice 40-50 cards worth of money to get it. And they refuse to optimize the software to 64 bit so it can actually handle the extra memory. What they have learned from the gambling is they can get away with a lot more than they initially could back in 2015...cards are still broken, all new content requries extra cost, and the new shows...not necessarily girls, are poorly scripted, I mean Jia Lissa, Belka, and the new group of girls all look like they are being micromanaged and not actually allowed to perform. I actually believe the girls are being managed to not put on the best show but to sell more cards later in the series...being told to hold back..to only do this move this many times,...and so on. That has to be very distracting for a dancer, who isn't actually a professional dancer.

I am wrong a lot so it might just be a little dip and a good week can turn me immediately into a fanboy because I have the maturity of a 12 year old. The gambling perturbs me...always has because it doesn't serve my ilk and I can only imagine getting free easy money is going to encourage them to continue to pursue free and easy money while letting the product fall apart at the seams.

In this case it is not the system's fault. It's the fault of a bunch of mor... - ekhm, "users" - who mistook tattoos for scars.

Hey! You! Yes, you @user, If you're reading this, if you're one of those "users" and you've taken it personally, well, that's your problem.

And yes! I was one of those "users" too 😆

They need to reinvest these easy earnings from the gambling and SE back into the product

During 2019, that has be done indeed (VR shows, 4K cam, new codec and better video quality - and there have been better beauties and better performances also). In first couple of months of 2020, though, new models did tend to be slightly worse, anyway it maybe would have been just a short moment (I remember it has been said, many times, that winter and Xmas times are not so good for shootings) and, so, probably things were about to change again - but then COVID-19 did arrive...

a stunning girl, who can dance a bit, who has some of the lowest ratings on the site, based on a script.

This could summarize the rating system 😖

I’ve completely fallen for Veronica Leal and Belka just wish I had the money to finished my Belka collection minus her event card. Two amazing models I could never get enough of .

My comment on her show a few minutes ago:

My advise at any commenter: look careful, there are NO scars; the red inkt is a tattoo. The breasts of Agatha are total natural. Agatha makes a very good debut!!!

Total 18 clips divided in Standing 6, Pole 6 and On TB 6. Some touching/rubbing in TB clips. No Bare feet. Starting Nude (just heels) one Standing, one Pole and one TB clip.

I knew Agatha from partnersite W4B, were she made her debut three years ago without any tattoo. A year later she had her first tattoo (our solar system on her back) and
the nipple piercings. Again a year later the breast tattoos were put on in red ink with the words “montirosa” and “manipuladora”. Superficially seen one can think it are scars,
but they are not. Her breasts are natural!!! The socalled sleeve on her underarm is the most recent one. Agatha has a soft, friendly face and her shapes are curvaceous, what
declares the title of this show. Her figure has the right proportions. No skinnyness here. The dress was beautiful, just as the high heels and the lace panties. At certain moments
a breast peeped out above the dress.

Agatha does a show mostly in the slower striptease style. So you have all the time to watch her curved body with her wide pelvis and her well developped butt. Her contact with
the camera is good and she smiles more then enough. At times her movements are squiggly. In the TB clips Agatha laughs slyly and is not shy. Perfect views on that ass/butt/bum.

The rating: Standing 4,5 (slower striptease style, squiggly), Pole 4,5 (learning fase, does her very best), Taskbar 5 (laughs slyly, not shy), Beauty 5 (friendly face, curved body) and
Outfit 5 (very nice dress and heels). Total 24/5 = 4,8-->5 stars. A good debut show of Agatha, but underrated by commenters/raters, who took a tattoo for a *****. NATURAL BREASTS!
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As Music of the Show not a specific song, but all the music of the famous Venezuelan musician Oscar D’Leon. Before my retirement as teacher I once asked my female students
from the Dutch Antilles: “What is good Latin music?” One of the musicians they advised me, was Oscar D’Leon and so I learned from my students! “Mulate Coquete” is a good one.

Liar and *****.

Possibly best in a while with a nice phat ass. Juicy. I gave 5 stars.

merci pickle1

The tattoos says "Mentirosa" and "Manipuladora" ... oh the irony.

😂

Bonjour,

J'ai vue qu'il y'a dans les succès une carte avec 4 fille j'ai regardé dans toute les collection depuis 2007 et impossible de la trouvé a moins que c'est une carte très spéciale

merci

Hi @jean66 - the card is Lucy Heart "Sex on the Beach" and it is generally available, it is not an SEC.

Bonjour,

J'ai vue qu'il y'a dans les succès une carte avec 4 fille j'ai regardé dans toute les collection depuis 2007 et impossible de la trouvé a moins que c'est une carte très spéciale

merci

Looks like a ***** so I don't disparage the low ratings but a stunning girl, who can dance a bit, who has some of the lowest ratings on the site, based on a script.

The more famous the porn star the more she can charge. Totem obviously want to get the girls for the least amount they can, it's just good business practice. Would you be willing to pay more for famous stars?
I'd be happy to pay a couple more credits for known stars that I like, like Bunny Colby or Jade Baker, for example. We already have most of the European stars I know of.

Judging by the ratings of the new and inexperienced girls I would say totem should take notice and invest first in europe to bring in well-balanced performers...girls in their prime...even if they are more expensive. They need to reinvest these easy earnings from the gambling and SE back into the product for sustainability. We've just haven't seen the reinvestment.

What happens when you run past the last free pack does it repeat or its just done?

Who's the girl in the Oktoberfest badge?

Would you be willing to pay more for famous stars?

It depends on what you mean by 'famous'.. Famous elsewhere or locally take2 s

if having totem exposure already has helped a certain model become 'famous' then
out of reach financially. We shouldn't have to wait 2 years to see that model again
if we can get her back 'while she is still hot'..so to speak. Maybe by, crowd funding for
a target goal ( ie: credits pre-spent/ prefrozen & commited unless the endeavour fails) or some such.

I saw the list of @Dfner: I wouldn't buy one card of those models.

My sentiments pretty accurately: my possible 2-3 of that list would be Lena Paul, Abella Danger and Alexis Texas. But Totem shouldn't pay any extra to get them to iStripper.

What has happened to the blondes? Are they dying out in Eastern Europe?

I don't think they are dying out :) Take a look at this map.

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/7zp4jc/percentage_of_light_hair_in_europe_758x746/

For blondes they should cast their nets in Finland or central Sweden :) I know of only one porn performer from my country and even she might be fake blonde: https://www.indexxx.com/m/miss-melissa

I saw the list of @Dfner: I wouldn't buy one card of those models.

What has happened to the blondes? Are they dying out in Eastern Europe?

Many blond girls from Latvia ( I see them on Metart and Nubiles), Latvia a country of the Schengenzone. Easier to fly into Paris, when the lockdown becomes less tight. Easier than any USA pornstar model. One should also think practical.

The more famous the porn star the more she can charge. Totem obviously want to get the girls for the least amount they can, it's just good business practice. Would you be willing to pay more for famous stars?

I'd be happy to pay a couple more credits for known stars that I like, like Bunny Colby or Jade Baker, for example. We already have most of the European stars I know of.

I google searched "most famous porn stars" and first link (year 2020) was to this:

https://www.redbled.com/most-popular-pornstars/

... where they say "What data did we use? To determine pornstar popularity, we looked at Google Trends and PornHub statistics of the most viewed pornstars."

Their top20 list includes 6 stars that we already have at iStripper (unless I missed someone). Out of the remaining 14 I would welcome maybe 2 or 3. I would definitely NOT pay anything extra for these 20, I'd pay less if I could for most of them. These "porn stars" do different things. Their popularity is for something completely different to what they would be doing here.

I hope iStripper doesn't spend one cent extra for these "top stars", unless they can be assured that they bring marketing value that justifies that extra spending.

Oh God, just my luck...
When I finally got to the 2nd Free Pack one, it ran out of cards to show me...
If only they'd include recent cards. 😉

Would you be willing to pay more for famous stars?

I would not support a general price increase. They could, though, charge more for some (few) cards - as they are already doing, by the way.
Totem could, anyway, hire just a couple of famous pornstars every year; their - quite big - wages could be compensated by the smaller salaries of so called "unknowns", so that a price increase - which is not desirable neither would be appreciated - would not be necessary.

The more famous the porn star the more she can charge. Totem obviously want to get the girls for the least amount they can, it's just good business practice. Would you be willing to pay more for famous stars?

I remember when special cards were VIP cards and they were free to platinum members.

Solution would be: let be possible to buy Jokers to members having 3000+ cards in their own Collection.
It would be good both for us and for Totem, since more people would be willing to get an huge collection in order to obtain the SECs too.

I remember when special cards were VIP cards and they were free to platinum members. I think special cards should be free for Diamond members or Premium
No way, those cards make them so much money now. That'd be a great loss for the company that's used to gouging hundreds of credits for one card from 'completionists'.

Yeh, the SEC's just seem to be nothing more than a way of price gouging. I saw one person ***** that they had used up over 1000 credits to get a SEC and they didn't get it, There have been plenty of others that spend hundreds to get the card. When it was restricted to events like the the calendar it was fine but making them part of gambling games is just wrong. But until they have ***** all their best customers it will stay i guess...