It's an NFT scam, but without NFTs.
No, that doesn't make it better, they're just using steam marketplace items instead.
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2024
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Maybe we should call them NFAs, Non Fungible Assets. Since it's the same idea without the "Token" part.
it's just beanie babies the form of virtual bananas
They're not the first game to exploit that.
So many games got through greenlight because of the trading cards.
yet more proof that there are no usecases that nfts solve,
even if that usecase is scamming people with ~~monkey~~ banana pictures
A youtuber called Jauwn has a pretty good video about this garbage
Is this some kind of Ponzi scheme? The "devs" and Valve get cuts every time some idiots buy those items.
It's a different scheme. While the developers can print as many items as they want if they want to, the prices are entirely made out by the community. So they just manipulate the odds to make some items rarer. If they print the same items, the price will fall right off.
However why the game has this much players is that its really easy to bot.
I see, it does not match all the properties of Ponzi scheme. But those people are idiots. And Valve really should intervene this since similar titles already popped up. Basically there is no end to that.
I wish GOG had local prices like Steam.
I still can’t comprehend how some nft like game made by some German right wing extremist became the second most played game on steam
Money and bots
Fomo
made by some German right wing extremist
News to me. Do you have any articles on this? Searching for "banana right wing" gives me a bunch of articles about Chiquita funding a paramilitary group.
One of the devs had his steam name set to "Abschieben schafft Wohnraum" which translates to "Deportation creates living space". He has now hidden previous names and claimed that this was to troll, but he still has Trump and Putin as his background so I don't think that I am going to believe that.
Wow. This dev has issues. Anyway, thanks for the info!
People still play PUBG?
Love me some PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Battlegrounds.
The company is still alive.
Not the same thing but I love me some PUBG Mobile.
The creator must be shitting his pants with the publicity this gane is getting. Someone that makes a game like that is surely trying to exploit opportunities. They have to be doing something illegal, whether that be illegal business practices or avoiding taxes.
the marketing is bad for them? I don't follow
If it gets too much publicity, it may catch the eye of a regulation agency that could start an investigation, especially if he pisses someone off, and that person makes an anonymous tip to a 3-letter agency as revenge.
cool, that's interesting