hinch7
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Bots farm from one another, and raise prices. Normal people dip in to try get some of that money but are usually the one holding the bag once its all settled.
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‘Banana’ Tops 400,000 Concurrent Players on Steam, game dominated by bots to farm money
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DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Is this the revered and so much elite with impeccable taste compared to filthy peasants; "PC gamer" demographic we hear about?
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Guilty_AI
Gold Member
nah, this is the same demographic who play those garbage easy-platinum games on the PS store.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
Holding what bag though? I still dont even understand what this is - how it makes money for the devs and how it makes money for anyone else.
Guilty_AI
Gold Member
Game drops items that can be sold through the steam market place (kinda like CS skins), and its very specifically designed to make it easy to create a bot that plays it constantly on the background without consuming resources.
Fools jump in the bandwagon in hopes they'll get a rare item and sell it for a high price, except the only potential buyers are other people who also hope these rare items will increase in value over time. Dev probably makes money by giving himself rare items and selling them (as well as taking commission from other items sales).
It's basically the same logic of the crypto and NFT boom.
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jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Download game for free
Click the banana
Get a free banana skin that can be sold to some sucker for real money
Sell banana skin on the Steam market for $0.03
Buyer pays $0.03 - Valve gets $0.01, Dev gets $0.01, Seller gets $0.01
Why would a buyer pay $0.03 (or more) for a virtual banana skin for a free to play game? Either they think it looks cool(?) or they think the value of that skin will go up on the Steam marketplace in the future (probably not). Either way, Valve and the dev take a cut of this tomfoolery. Maybe the buyer will eventually resell this themselves for $0.05 to try and recoup their costs, in which case Valve and the dev get another penny each from this same skin.
It's the same business model that's allowed Valve to make hundreds of millions of dollars on Counter Strike gun and knife cosmetics while providing the game itself for free. The only difference here is that there isn't an actual game, just a screen with a banana on it that you click to win.
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hinch7
Member
Anyone who's willing to invest in these Ponzi-like schemes because others are making money off it and end up losing their investments. The devs can easily fix it and sell off unique Banana's and keep bumping up prices in hope of some whale to buy them. Even massive streamers like Asmongold was tempted to buy an expensive digital banana lol.