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Ostatnie posty - Strona 189

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Altara
Dołączył: Dec 2010
159 post(y/ów)

New VIP status / New price

Wszystko o iStripper
July 29, 2023, 209 odpowiedzi
*Not paid for this endorsement* 😆

I've watched this product evolve for 13 years.

Case in point, the most recent app upgrade, while a bit of a shock at first, I can see small improvements here and there along with incorporation of new products. Some of the UI changes were unfortunate, but I'm an old codger. 😘

I went full in a long time ago for one reason, it's far cheaper than a single, wild night at a strip club, and you can visit any time you want, paying for more variety or simply just use what you already have. Better because the girls never get old on screen although I am almost certain that some of my oldest cards have models that have likely lost all semblence of youth, had a kid or two, and are living far different, hopefully high quality, lives. I don't know about the rest of the world, but the cost of one card here is far cheaper than a single "friction" dance at a strip club. 😉

They have likely been doing what they can to keep the cost per card level as low as possible. One example I can see from here (other side of the northern hemisphere), is the auctioning online of unique costumes worn once, or costumes that have seen some wear and were worn by more popular models. A lot of fund-raising potential every time.

Costume quality is significantly better now than it has ever been. You can see it directly if you own some of the oldest cards.

Production levels and video quality exceeds anything they did before. They appear to be keeping up with technology, that alone is expensive.

They are producing VR stuff too, on top of the NFT stuff. If I am thinking correctly, I think they also have a VR game out there, and yes, it's a strip club. 😲 I own a copy on Steam. I can't use it now, but I own it. 😉

I remember the iDancer project, and still own a copy. It was pretty cool but there was likely no way they could adapt it to the product they are producing now, despite the hopes that something more could evolve out of it. I think they had about 5 or 6 different dancers with unique styles that "danced" to some limited degree to the rhythm of any music you play on your music apps. It took a minute or two for the algorithms to figure it out and the music had to be consistent. I think I last toyed with it about 6 months ago before my PC died. No stripping, just interesting club style dancing from that time period. I think it was a usable app for DJ's at the time, if they used video displays along with audio. Yes, I had to pay extra for it, and I doubt they are even supporting it now. Just a case of how they are always looking at improvement.

I've rambled enough. 😶
orclover
Dołączył: Jun 2012
1402 post(y/ów)

New VIP status / New price

Wszystko o iStripper
July 28, 2023, 209 odpowiedzi
I hope it goes well, others want it to fail 😟^|And just how backwards is that... Wanting the project to fail?If it fails, maybe Totem Fails with it...Why the Heck would anyone want to wish something like that?Shows you how disrespectful many of the members here are.Disgusting, absolutely Disgusting that we have members that would wish this on the company !

Most anger is associated with not being able or willing to access all the content because of price walls. This makes people feel poor and inferior to others who are able or willing to spend hundreds and thousands on istripper perks. This by nature pisses people off. It takes humility and thoughtfulness to understand that totem is creating tiers for all kinds of customers and figuring out as we speak how to leverage the wealthiest. This new decision is one of the few that ***** the main buyers, especially new customers...most of the time us "poors" just have to deal with not getting a special event card, or a dolz set, now we see our prices rise, which is a big deal for people who do not have a lot of disposable income and are not gamblers by nature. I imagine totem can't survive long term without new customers and maintaining the hundreds or thousands of selectors that pick and choose, but in this new age of people spending 500-1000 for a dolz card, who the hell knows. Maybe seeing the wild spending on dolz pushed them to not worry as much about new or lower level customers. A risky game it seems.

It is also really bad optics to announce week after week thousands of dollars spent on dolz cards, and a new VR project just as they raise prices on istripper. I think the idea that istripper would be supported by dolz and would be maintained at the same price point kept people from boiling over.
TheEmu
Dołączył: Jul 2012
7424 post(y/ów)

New VIP status / New price

Wszystko o iStripper
July 28, 2023, 209 odpowiedzi
They are making cards and not putting them in the catalog .. the catalog is incomlete or not to full potential.

True - but that is not what you said before which was that they were shrinking the catalogue. They are not, they are making exactly as many cards for the catalog as they would do if the SECs did not exist and if they did not exist the extra cards would not have been made.

They could, of course, release more than seven cards a week but it is not obvious that that would result in increased sales.

'average' price is not what I meant. I'm talking about income or revenue.

So was I. What should be maximised is indeed, as you say, the total income which is

    Income = Sum for all i ( P(i) )

where i runs from 1 to N where N is the total number of cards sold, by any method, in whatever period we want to evaluate the income over and P(i) is the selling price of the i'th sale, Note that the i'th sale may be for a different card to those before and after it, I am not limiting this to the sales of a single card. Also note that by "selling price" I am not restricting myself to those sold normally via the store but the cost to the customer of obtaining that card no matter how it was acquired. The values of P(i) will vary depending on the card,how much it was discounted and how it was acquired, but the total value given by the above expressing will be equal to N * P' where P' is the average of all the P(i) values.
dar2112v
Dołączył: Dec 2007
920 post(y/ów)

New VIP status / New price

Wszystko o iStripper
July 28, 2023, 209 odpowiedzi
They are taking many of the best cards out of the catalog
I do not think that less than 1% of the available cards can be regarded as "many". .

I believe I've heard 70 or 1.5 years worth of DOLZ plus several IS game exclusive cards a month.. That may not be many to you but to me it is.


and shrinking the catalog.
No they are not. Every week 7 cards are released for sale, if the SECs had been released as regular cards then an equal number of other cards would not have been released. .

They are making cards and not putting them in the catalog .. the catalog is incomlete or not to full potential. You are correct it is not growing smaller but ***** none the less. And I think they are ***** the time value of the card by making them exclusive. I don't have any facts but I think the cards lose value (less interest/less urgency/etc) as they get older so members will be less willing to jump through hoops to get the cards.


Totem has to figure their way on the curve selling the max number of cards at the max price.
Not quite correct but I understand what you mean. They don't need to seek to maximise either the number of cards sold nor the price per card but to maximise the product of the number of cards times their average price .

'average' price is not what I meant. I'm talking about income or revenue. As the prices go up there will be fewer buyers but more income per show sold (what I think you are calling 'price'). So what Totem wants to do is get the max price while maintaining as many buyers as possible. I think the term is price and demand elasticity. Let's look at in reverse; think of a curve graph showing more buyers coming in as the price drops. You want to stop lowering the price at the point there number of new buyers are not offsetting the lost revenue. Again using my $1 vs $10 per show you have to sell 10x of the $1 show to generate the same revenue. I would buy zero shows for $10 and as many shows as I want at $1 my personal threshold is somewhere in the middle.