56 points

It’s an NFT scam, but without NFTs.

No, that doesn’t make it better, they’re just using steam marketplace items instead.

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Maybe we should call them NFAs, Non Fungible Assets. Since it’s the same idea without the “Token” part.

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3 points

it’s just beanie babies the form of virtual bananas

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6 points

They’re not the first game to exploit that.

So many games got through greenlight because of the trading cards.

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yet more proof that there are no usecases that nfts solve,
even if that usecase is scamming people with monkey banana pictures

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24 points

A youtuber called Jauwn has a pretty good video about this garbage

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19 points

Is this some kind of Ponzi scheme? The “devs” and Valve get cuts every time some idiots buy those items.

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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.

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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.

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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

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Money and bots

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Fomo

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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.

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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.

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Wow. This dev has issues. Anyway, thanks for the info!

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8 points

People still play PUBG?

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5 points

Love me some PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Battlegrounds.

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The company is still alive.

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Not the same thing but I love me some PUBG Mobile.

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