An absurd situation: the buyer comes to the store, sees the goods on the counter, the buyer has a desire to buy this product, he has money, but the seller does not sell, says that you need to take part in some strange games.
I see that sort of thing most weeks in real physical businesses - and have been seeing it for over 60 years. Often the establishments that do this are called clubs, or airport executive lounges, or are part of a store's loyalty card scheme but there are many variations. I see it even more often for online services. Totem are not the odd man out here, just following a well established practice.
A very common example here in Germany is seen at almost any town fair in the shape of "attractions" that offer a range of cheap cuddly toys as prizes for buying a raffle ticket.
Totem comes up with scams and users are ***** to accept them.
They mot definitely are not scams, nor are you ***** to participate. It is your choice as to whether or not you think it is worthwhile.
I am not attempting to persuade you that such practices are either good or bad, only trying to explain why Totem indulge in them. For what it is worth I don't like the special event cards or any of the gambling games, but I do understand why Totem like them and that is all that I have been talking about in this set of posts.