We are not paying for smurf berries but actually gambling with money

This is false. I am a bit upset with Totem now, since I ***** exclusive cards, slot machines, scratch cards and so, but on this point I have to defend Totem.
a) On this software we don't use money, but credits, which are a totally fictional currency. The only real transactions here happen when you buy credits, not when you do anything with them.
b) Gamble on Istripper is not real gamble, also, because it's only about credits. Moreover, it's not possible at all to convert credits winnings back in real currencies. So, it's not real gamble.

So it has actually happened. Not to me yet, I can keep my computer off-line.

But thanks to the bullshit scratch games and other nasty gambling gimmicks and now this ***** update crap it's time for one of the trolls here to bid iStripper bye-bye.

For the most part it has been a good 10 years, but it seems that the time has come to say “So long, and thanks for all the fish.”

Whoever wants my remaining credits can have them.

Nobody ***** anyone to do anything...I mean not unless that gets you off!

but anyway don't be the fish...be the one doing the fishing! 😜👌 (69lbs!)

Meanwhile:
All cards released are bugged...

I guess it's easier to code this stupid gambling crap then producing quality content.

Why am i still here

Well, yeah, but there is no limited edition on digital content.

There are indeed limited editions on digital content - that is pretty much what people here have been ***** about. It may be that the limit is artificially imposed in the digital case but that is also true for very many limited edition physical objects, think of limited edition commemorative coins and plates.

How appropo for Friday the 13th. An unlucky event for an unlucky day! Totem really knows how to celebrate this holiday!

We are not paying for smurf berries but actually gambling with money and not getting any product (when blanks are drawn). Might not be legal without a gambling license?

Exactly !!! But since we're gambling with credits (not a legal money) they probably fall outside the law.

Funny how people related to Totem Productions are defending this. Just like a crappy restaurent on a Gordon Ramsay show. Nothing positive comes out of talking down to the customors. If you feel the business model gives you too little profit per card then try changing the pice. But making this into a gambling app is a totally different thing. Gambling about software content... but with real money. We are not paying for smurf berries but actually gambling with money and not getting any product (when blanks are drawn). Might not be legal without a gambling license?

Hmm. It appears loot boxes might win in some scenarios, like the Guiness Book of World Records prize for Most Downvoted comment in the history of Reddit:

https://kotaku.com/ea-received-a-guinness-world-record-for-most-downvoted-1837955807

I've never bought a one and plan to continue to not do so. Vote with your dollars lads.

👍
Thanks, Boss !

I understand users prefer to run the version they like the best, but we don't have the capacity to manage dozens of different versions running and behaving differently. Most online games update at launch no matter what because making different versions of any software work together is a nightmare. I heard the privacy issues, I'll make sure this is addressed.

@ALL

we all agreed to the Terms and Conditions when we 1st Installed the Software.
So no one can really be upset, as this is covered in the Terms and Conditions.
And YES,
if you can open and see the iStripper App, then you Agreed to the T&C during it 1st installation and Use.

It might not be spelled out word for word, but the T&C does include mandatory updates.

IX. UPDATES AND MODIFICATIONS

• Totem Entertainment may provide Updates to the Software that must be installed for you to continue to play the Product. Each time you launch the Software to play the Product, you hereby give your consent to Totem Entertainment to remotely install any Updates to the Software that resides on your computer, with or without additional notification to you.
• Totem Entertainment reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to revise, update, change, modify, add to, supplement, or delete certain terms of this License Agreement as the Product and the law evolve; provided, however, that material changes to this License Agreement will not be applied retroactively. Such changes will be effective with or without prior notice to you. You can review the most current version of this License Agreement by clicking on the "EULA" link located at the bottom of the Site. You are responsible for checking this License Agreement periodically for changes. If the Software requires an Update at the time you launch the Software to access the Product, you will also have the opportunity to review and to accept or reject the current version of this License Agreement. If any future changes to this License Agreement are ***** to you or cause you to no longer be in agreement or compliance with this License Agreement, you may terminate this License Agreement in accordance and must immediately stop using the Product and uninstall the Software. Your continued use of the Product following any revision to this License Agreement constitutes your complete and irrevocable acceptance of any and all such changes.

https://www.istripper.com/information/eula/display

This is NOT new.
Early version of VG and VGHD also automatically updated..
I have no Issue with the AutoUpdate .

But I do Agree with what Member @roameo brought up.
https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/42828/1?post=632704


Please do NOT re activate the Automatic Startup with Windows, if the Startup shortcut is not Already Present.
Some of Us remove the Shortcut from the Staup folder.
Do a Check. If it doers not exist for a Current Install, Don't add it back.
Also, I always have to re-add this to my shortcut. -fromStartup

C:\Users\WyldAnimal\AppData\Local\vghd\bin\vghd.exe -fromStartup

it would be nice if I didn't have to do that each time I update.
It allows the App to start, minimized in the System Tray, and stay hidden without Opening the Main Window.

Also, a Notification that, You Desktop Player App has been Updated, with a Confirmation to close it.

All of the apps on my mobile devices send a notification that an update is available, then asks if I want to install the update. The iOS on my Apple devices informs me that a new version is available, then asks if I want to install. Heck, even Windows10 asks me if I want to install the updates.

Let's me pretend that I have some control over my electronic devices.

***** updates without permission is just wrong.

Automatic update of Firefox is deactivable, and also automatic update of mobile-apps on Android is.
We just ask to get such a deactivate function also on Istripper. As a compensation, Team could for example decide to give technical support only to members having last version installed.

It also updated mine without asking - extremely fast and almost silent - and that is the reason why I'm totally unhappy about this new procedure :-(

Previously when I did a manual update I knew that I had to

• remove the start-menu icons
• delete the totally useless autostart entry (which is always put there, even though I deactivated autostart in the settings)
• and empty my trash bin

Others in my household have access to my computer - I take care of not having iStripper running, when anybody is around, but I cannot switch accounts anytime someone enters the room. The current installation is hidden well enough for my household (there are no computer experts around) - but with the current kind of silent update it will sooner or later happen, that I do not recognize an update - and then it is way too easy do detect it by just opening the start-menu.

And yes @celine: In this aspect iStripper is very different from any Firefox or mobile-app on my smartphone!

Please: Make the auto-update optional or only by clicking "Update Now" - or make it very clear that an update has happened (e.g. by showing a window with version information, which has to be clicked away actively - like some mobile-apps already do). Or add the possibility to supress the creation of the start-menu icons and the autostart entry. Otherwise I do not see an option at the moment to avoid deinstalling iStripper completely.

Consider this: I have already lost 2 members of my family to ***** related to gambling addictions. After that happened I made a promise to myself to never touch a slot machine or scratch card or anything else related to gambling for as long as I live. How then is someone like me ever going to be able to get my hands on any of the special event cards if the only way to ever obtain them is to gamble for them?

Perhaps totem could offer the special event cards as timed exclusives, ie after say six months they make them available for regular purchase. They could even charge a higher than normal price for them as I would still be willing to pay extra for a card of a girl I am interested in as long as I didn't have to gamble for it.

I have to say that I had given uo on the scratch card game, having had to quit and re-open iStripper a number of times in an attempt to get it to work, until I at one point lost contact with my entire collection. But with expert help help from a member of the istripper team function was restored.

I then found myself with 197 credits in credit and decided to give the Scratch game a go, with a mental note to myself to limit my expenditure to 47 credits. But during 45 minutes of playing, through winning several 50 credits I eventually won the Melena special event card and gained 136 credits as well. It demonstarted to me that the game can produce wins. I have always found it best in lotteries , Auctions or betting to decide in advance what ones spending limit is and stick to it.

Please welcome our new iStripper girl Stella Cardo.
Stella comes from Russia, she has an amazing smile and gorgeous boobs.
Take Stella Cardo in your arms in this incredibly intimate VR 180° show...

Check it out now! Click the VR section of iStripper GUI or click here:
https://www.istripper.com/vr180/detail/793bf3fd1f43e3f0

thank you :)

dont play stupid games, you only get stupid prizes.

Well, yeah, but there is no limited edition on digital content. I'm not interested in a lottery. I don't want to put my name in a hat. If I was I'd be somewhere else!

I came here to watch "Hot babes perform exclusive erotic shows on my desktop". Perhaps they should put on the front page that there is a chance that the girl you came here for is not available unless you part with a significant sum of money, and even then you might not get to see her... unless you are prepared to part with even more.

This place feels less inviting every day. It seems that those with the most money have the loudest voice...

You would actually have trouble trying to find a store in my area that Does Not sell lottery tickets. Convenience stores, department stores and grocery stores alike. Billboards are everywhere, giving the current total winning value for each of the two big money games being played here.

@zenwolfy2K

Don't know about the US but in the UK many local stores sell lottery tickets and lottery scratchcards. Some people go to the stores specifically to gamble.

You don't walk into a store to buy something and the guy behind the register says you can't buy that, but you can gamble for it.

Yes it is quite common during the Gift giving Holidays, when a Very Popular toy or gaming console is in Limited supply.
Customers put their name into a drawing, or on a list, and names are drawn out to see who can get one..
It's either done live at the store, or they will call you and let you know your name was drawn, Do you want it.
Give your CC number and come pick it up before closing or you loose it.

@musicfalcon
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@guvato Based on my experience, you can't win any card that is newer than 45 days (except for the new special event card of Melena)...

Updating my own earlier post: unlike some of the earlier promos, this time the 45 day limit seems to be refreshed while the promotion is ongoing. In one of the earlier promos it seemed to be so that the limit was set once the promo started: you could only win cards that were 45+ days old on the first day of that promo. None of the cards that became 45+ days old while the promotion lasted, were available to win at any point.

This time, it seems that the day limit is updated during the promo. When I played on Friday, "regular" card wins stopped altogether once I had won the last of the missing cards 45+ days old.

Now that I spinned a few more times (= making my Joker stakes get from 192 to even 200 for heck of it :) ), I won Madison's "Sunny Day" (45 days at the time of playing today), Florane Russell's "Unleashed" (45 days at the time of playing today) and Valeria Borghese's "Up For Review" (47 days at the time of playing today).

Above is just to let you know that you can win more cards now up until thursday than you could win on weekend.

It just updated mine without asking, so I guess then this isn't the first version to do so.

M E L E N A !!!!

on my top 5 and i think she is the first ...

Don't mix games with your storefront or you will lose customers.

What little evidence we have suggests that Totem gain more than they lose by these games.

You don't walk into a store to buy something and the guy behind the register says you can't buy that, but you can gamble for it.

I have seen exactly that, sometimes for very high value items such as a "special edition" Jaguar car and also for very low value items such as plastic toys.

If you guys want to make games...make some games. Don't mix games with your storefront or you will lose customers. You don't walk into a store to buy something and the guy behind the register says you can't buy that, but you can gamble for it. Yeah, we win a bunch of cards we didn't want while we play...whoopty doo. Just sell us the cards we want and keep your gambling gaming garbage off your storefront.

@gkar45, I don't know if you managed to get the image, but just in case here it is:
https://webcdn.desktopware.com/img/newspromo/joker.jpg

I just spent 10 credits on a scratch card (was only going to do 1) and got 2 S's. It said my prize was 100 credits. I didn't get them.

Many Members are ***** by this.

The Center Prize is What you Might Win.
But you Need 3 S's in the small coins to WIN that Prize.

If you do not get 3 S's,
you didn't win the prize displayed in the Center Coin.

Do not feed the troll...in this case a bad joke lololol

Most of the softwares or mobile app you use do update automatically , so does Firefox for instance...
And I'm sure that you don't condition the installation of a software or app to the fact that it auto updates or not...

The main reason why we switch to this model of auto-update is because having so many different versions running simultaneously makes it really difficult to continue developing improvements (including improvements YOU are requesting) that will be compatible with all our previous versions.

The main reason why we do it now with version 1.2.234 is that this version does not contain big technical change, which means that iStripper is technically very stable :) Plus it will allow every one to get a chance to win a joker card, which is a card that you can exchange for ANY show, inclusing the Special event cards that make some of you moan :-P

“50 winners guaranteed” means that only 50 Joker cards or at least 50 Joker cards？

means "at least"

Hey, you can't lose if you don't play.

This.

"Well, does it count if I have them half off?"

As much as i love Melena but after 100 Trys i gave up, i've should have been wiser and not even try to get it.

it means you have 100 chances to win a joker card... and to exchange your joker card for Malena's special event one :)

Yes, a 100 chances out of how much...ten thousands? So not quite a high probability... It's lottery after all ;)

I have won 3 cards but they never actually appear i my collection...Older cards probably no longer available.

old cards not available anymore would not appear in any game...
they must appear in your collection like they actually do in our database. Please check again :)
thx

Seems to be a joke, these joker cards.
These games are not enough rewarding. You can play endlessly and not win anything worthy.
It is just a money making machine for totem...
We either feed it or not.
Our decision.

@number 6, You are right I did buy 5 tickets! But havingplasyed once with only 2 'S's I don't know how to play again. I seem stuck on the image I posted.Any ideas as to how to proceed with 4 more goes?

please make sure you scratch COMPLETELY the circles, other wise the system will consider you haven't scratched at all :)

Au final cette magnifique carte de Melena Maria Rya/hot and roll m'a coûtée 407 crédits.25 cartes horribles que je ne téléchargerai jamais, merci du cadeau lol.i$tripper est devenu un casino avec tous ces jeux et c'est bien dommage.Peu importe des promotions a venir, Je ne rechargerai plus mes crédits.Bye Bye Totem 👍😄😉

et donc 407 chances de gagner une carte joker à échanger contre n'importe quelle carte du store, y compris les cartes exclues :)
et pour les cartes gagnées mais non voulues, n'hésitez pas à demander leur retrait de votre collection si vous êtes parfaitement sûr de ne jamais les regarder (ce qui est dommage à mon avis, on a souvent de bonnes surprises sur ces shows...)

As much as i love Melena but after 100 Trys i gave up, i've should have been wiser and not even try to get it.

it means you have 100 chances to win a joker card... and to exchange your joker card for Malena's special event one :)

So now there will be 4 cards I can't get because I won't play the gambling games. Dissapointing. I see there's a few of the triple diamond club here that feel the same. I like my discount but a great triple diamond benefit would be another method for the serious collectors to get the special event cards.

play the scratch game to get free credits, and chances to win a joker card :) you can exchange a joker card for a special event card :)

On another note i forgot to mentiopn in the previous comment is that the bare minimum should be cards in 1080 res because we are spending our hard earned cash on this it does us no good to get cards from 2009 and have not aged well.

I agree that the old cards are not looking so good. I've had to disable some of my favorite models like Zuzanna Drabinova because the quality is so terrible.

I dislike gambling but out of curiosity I thought I would give the scratch game a try. It is the only chance I have of getting two special cards I really want. Out of four scratch card attempts, I won 10 credits and a 1080P card. Now I will cross my fingers and hope my snowball in hell does not melt.

As much as i love Melena but after 100 Trys i gave up, i've should have been wiser and not even try to get it.

Please stop the practice of preventing your loyal members from acquiring cards they want.

As far as I can tell there is no gun being held to people's heads, making them to keep pressing the button and further to make them get out their credit card to continue their folly.

I'm sure you know that's not how addiction works. Other than this, brilliant post and pretty much covers all of the points necessary to get across.

Totem can see the results of each of their special offers, including the special events, and as they continue to offer them we can be pretty sure that the number of lost customers is not high enough to be a major concern.

Kinda like how EA, Bethesda, Activision and other major gaming businesses can tell most of their customer base to ***** off. Peoples' addiction to "Surprise Mechanics" enables this.

The models in some of the cards I won look pretty weak but I will give them a look at in time.
Who knows maybe I would be introduced to a model who surprises me.
I wonder if the models get residuals every time one of their cards are bought.
If this does happen then I should consider it as giving to charity towards a model that has low purchase rates on her cards.
The only thing is if the model is good but in 720p then I still will most likely not buy her remaining shows.
At this point let's be honest most people do not buy 720p cards and I am far from owning all 1080p cards but 720p still shows up in these offers for me. I don't plan to install the girls I won at the moment but is the Oliva Sin SEC really that bad?
There should be some kind of checkbox on these promotions to let you choose your resolution levels and xxx levels so you only get card types you like and if there are not enough of your choices left in the system for you to play it notifies you and it is up to you to choose if you want to go down a res or up an xxx level. This may be complicated but it could be possible or just put a notice on the machine. Includes 720p and 480p shows etc.