‘Banana’ Has Broken Steam
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
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Banana has masterfully harnessed Steam's systems. GG dev, GG.
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Say thanks to " The Spiffing Brit " for Banana game going crazy like this.
No and you're wrong. A developer isn't breaking Steam. A bot network is breaking Steam. Banana is a money laundering scam.
*_Wasn't the dev a nazi?_*
There is no infinite money glitch unless you find infinite bag-holders stupid enough to buy your worthless bananas.
Exactly. I don't see the issue. If people are not stupid enough to buy these listings on the market, then no money has been exchanged and no one got anything out of it. You can only earn if you find stupid people paying money to listings in there. People compare this to TF2 but it's not even close, TF2 have a vibrant market with lots of buyers. You can earn actual money out of it because it already has a value as gameplay to thousands of people. This crap doesn't have anything to offer
@@jackjack3358 it's only as infinite as the people who keep feeding it cash.
It's not truly infinite it had a big initial payments.
It's just money going back and forth Between bots in a blender and each transaction. Valve shaves a little bit off.
Each person that cashes out reduces the amount of cash further, and every idiot who buys tops it off. So really. This is not a problem, the problem are the gamblers feeding the system but this is how gambling works.
First you offer the Initial investment. Then you gather fools to keep adding more into the pot
there's apparently alot of bots on the marketplace, they buy high demand items and then flip them for a profit
@@Drago_Whooves that's not what's going on here. They have bots, running this game in thousands of instances, so that their accounts can get drop item and they are trying to sell those items that they got for free. If you don't buy even a penny worth item from there, they won't win anything at all. Electricity they spend on that supposed farm probably will cost more to them compared to their profit.
Honestly it sounds like a way to launder money to me. Dev has endless bot accounts buying/selling bananas to each other, with the dev's cut of those sales coming out completely clean of whatever paper trail the money used to buy/sell bananas had. Sure they lose the fraction to Steam with each transaction, but some clean untraceable money is better than all of the money that might have consequences attached to having it.
Truly, we live in the dumbest timeline.
No, dumbest timeline fun, We live in the Darkest timeline⚫
Banana
@@JorgeLopez-qj8pu Yeah, sadly, I can't dispute that.
you are 6 years too late with that revelation lmfao
The darkest
People competing in a virtual banana market is all the evidence you need that we're regressing as a species
Exactly my first thought. This is so dumb, I'd rather play Diablo Immortal than this trash.
Oh no. OH NO!!! 🙊
To me this is the same players buying cosmetics. It's the same shit.
I want to return to monke, but not like this….
When economies are bad people flock to easy ways to make money and often get scammed by bad actors because they are too desperate to see red flags. Late stage Capitalism could be seen as regression, I guess. And I have heard it said that we are regressing back into feudalism because of the class stratification caused by the super wealthy having significantly more control over government decisions than the majority opinion of the voting public.
Oh no steam has turned into a banana republic.
Take my like, damn you!
:D
That was a good one 😂
Tropico 7 changed a lot huh...
🍌
Total scam, the developer privated his Steam collection, with tons of bananas no longer available with outrageous prices.
But they can't profit from this money - they can only use it to buy Steam games...
@@highdefinist9697there is a loop hole in call of duty you can cash out
They can use the steam funds to buy items like TF2 keys with real stable prices and then sell them for normal currency outside of steam.
it's People making the Market not the Dev... People are litterally beeing Monkeys and ya'll seeing a conspiracy...
@@highdefinist9697 Steam items and games can be used to get real cash on gray markets. It's a lot of hoops, completely against Valve's TOC, but they can totally profit from it.
So an NFT game is making it to the top of steam...
These arent NFTs at all lmao
@@thechugg4372 Not technically as it is not blockchain, but in how it works it really isn't far off... :P
No NFTs. Steam has a user marketplace though.
@@pilentus The Steam marketplace was the original inspiration for NFTs.
@@lycanwarrior2137 ehhh not really. NFTs were initially used by artists to sell digital copies of their art.
Game asset NFTs were not introduced until a bit further down the road.
This isn't creating money. It is redistribution, because in the end, someone will have a bunch of "expensive" banana PNGs they can't sell. The balance will be 0$, with some people above that and some people below that number. Oh, and two parties way far above that number for doing basically nothing but dipping their fingers into the pot everytime it passes them.
Worth remembering devs 100% will or already are creating bananas for sale themselves. Steam also pockets % so they give no fuck.
It's a bubble market, and they *always* burst leaving bag holders.
No, "Psychological Horror" sounds about right
This ... This is what is wrong with the gaming community. We prey on addictive personality traits to make a few bucks and don't even put in any effort.
Steam needs to quality control their marketplace.
Yeah I am surprised this hasn't been removed.
@@Darkeus1welcome to the world of steam direct + marketplace... a shit hole whre all scam can coexist at the very small price of 100 us... yahooooo
Just don't spend money on stupid things and the market will regulate itself.
@@NevictBut isn’t this whole thing the market regulating itself? Sure, I think it’s stupid, you think it’s stupid but the market is spending the money they have where they want. 🤷🏻♂️
@@Nevict This is based on an assumption that most of the humanity treat their time on this planet seriously.
I’m confused… what’s the “game”? You just… click… the banana??? Humanity is over…
It's literally a scam. Dumb people play "game", acquire steam items to sell on the steam market, which do _nothing_ and whose only value is potentially selling it for more than you bought it for to someone else who hopes to do the same thing. But as the guy who made the game they come from, he gets a cut off of every sale of said steam items.
The real game is developer gaming the market, and all the "investors" are pawns.
@@Blazieth This works in other games because there is an actual game to play and people want different skins (such as Space Engineers)
People collect stuff. Most of that stuff is inherently worthless. This is just another example.
@@Blazieth By playing TF2 you get free items from time to time. By premium upgraded TF2 - one time little deal, you can sell these items in the Steam marketplace to get keys. You sell these keys for real money. Who is really at the fault here, Bananas devs or Valve? Because Bananas is TF2 ripped off to its very core mechanics.
A game built around player trades, Fomo and cashing in on a percentage to generate income from basically nothing is shady as f*ck.
Even labelling it as a "game" is pretty generous for a straight up gambling mechanic... anyone participating in this is stupid.
To you may be shady but its actually pretty smart.
@@deftestaphid2026 Smart how? Theirs no free money... Someone's always gonna be left holding the bag, if their was no money involved people wouldn't give a sh!t but because their is it's all about screwing over the next idiot to come along to make a profit and much like NFT's when player interest drops, everything will eventually become worthless.
Selling snake oil to make a quick buck is *not* smart.
I flipped banana and make extra 3p from it.
So, it’s a skinnerbox. Not a game with Skinnerbox mechanics, just a Skinnerbox. Period.
The only way this could be more on the nose would be if it was food pellets in a rat cage instead of bananas.
Cookie Clicker put in a ton of effort, all they had to do was this...
I hate the internet
Triple A be looking at banana like "Write that down write that down"!
No offense to anyone that uses services like Rocket Money, but how freaking oblivious or mega rich do you have to be to not realize money is coming out of your account that you dont want coming out of your account?
depends if you think you canceled that adobe subscription or just tried to and failed
@@XerrolAvengerII You missed the point he made. I'd notice a subscription I forgot to cancel go out of my account pretty much right away.
I'd remove it if I were managing Steam. Rules be damned, this hurts the integrity of the platform imo. Put this ish on itch or newgrounds where it belongs.
The amount of shit on Steam right now, I think that ship has sailed.
Let's be honest Steam kinda lost their integrity years ago when they removed their community standards and let people post whatever games they feel like, thats part the reason this game has been able to get listed anyway.
@@CantimuleNever too late to return to port.
@@OhmegaWolf Very true, and I'm aware of that. None of these shit ironic and/or scammy games have cut through the charts and statistics this way. That's my deciding factor here. The industry references steam statistics for production decisions and leaving something like this so high on the lists dilutes their validity. Leaving it up for irony's sake, or some sense of fairness just doesn't sit well with me. I'd suffer any perceived hypocrisy for it, I'd bite that bullet.
Don't ruin itch with this garbage :(
there is already a "banana & cucumber" now
Truly the first 'banana-type' game of its genre.
I thought that was donkey Kong?
It's not dev that is an issue.
It's stupid people buying those worthless items.
Let them. They will find out pretty fast they've wasted their money. 90% of them are bots anyway.
If the dev profits from this, then a precedent is set and low effort bot-farmed games might flood steam. If valve cares about their market's health, they will nip this thing in the bud.
The devs made this, the devs manipulate the market and the devs are 100% responsible for this shit show. If this wasn't what they intended they would have actually intended to happen they would have made an actual game.
Who needs Marvel vs Capcom Collection when there's Click Banana.
It's not a game. It should be moved to the app section or removed entirely.
This game truly deserves its "Psychological Horror" tag. I could feel my grip on reality slipping while watching this.
This story is completely bananas!
Can't wait for the movie tie in
I despise who ever wrote this script.
That feeling when you realize the TF2 bot epidemic was a STEAM bot epidemic all along
Let me save you some time. Banana is a pump and dump, the dev holds all the good bananas and can make them whenever. You will never get a good banana
Let me save you some time. CS2 is a pump and dump, the dev holds all the good knife skins and can make them whenever. You will never get a good knife skin
@@r99716 Difference being, CS2 is still a game that you can play even if you don't engage in the speculative economy part of it. Banana has less interactivity than the worst idle game created.
@@Totallynotkyubey so then CS2 is a game with a pump and dump attached to it
So, NFTs sans blockchain?
Yes, except they’re not unique
Daylight come and me want go home....
A literal pump-and-dump scam is going to beat elden ring player numbers. Oh lord....
AAA companies: DEVELOP THAT! DEVELOP THAT!!!
so its a clicker loot box? this truly is our lobotomy kaise.
I'm surprised that steam hasn't done anything. It kinda ruins the spirit of gaming, but maybe it's making them too much money and therefore they turn a blind eye.
This also reminds me a bit of how Blizzard marketed Diablo III around being able to sell your rare drops in the in-game Auction Houses for real-world money back in the day before that all got reconfigured after release.
Those clicker games always remind me of the SMBC theater skit
well its a good way to make valve take note of these things
A video game about clicking a Banana. I do not think this is a Dev thing at all. I think this is a player base thing. Besides the immense stress, I've gained from seeing the actual gameplay.
I am more fearful AAA Game Development CEOs may take inspirations from this Possible Malware cosplaying as a game, save money by laying off countless talented developers & staff, as well as produce endless duplicate games inspired by this one.
It's about time somebody did it, really.
Open market, curated only by developer and valve; millions of players and even more bots who are wiling to be scammed out of their pretend-cents
It's only that Banana is so unashamedly non-game, that's the most curious aspect to me.
I was at first thinking this was a Flappy Birds situation.
Say thanks to " The Spiffing Brit " for Banana game going crazy like this.
It was already crazy before him
This is why I said too that the game isn't a scam... The whole money rush IS STUPID! Like those people basically BUYING free staff from the game. I have been selling any steam collectables WHEN it appears in my inventory too. I never buy as a stock. Like anyone who sell it in day 1 is always the winners. The losers are the idiots who buy said free staff... Like why bro...
Banana is the rawest example of the TF2 problem and that's hilarious.
You unsubscribed to swtor? Monster
Once they add achievements to which banana you click, the price may get out of control.
I'm not a Banana farmer but I did partake in a game a while back (which no longer exists) that had a similar idea but with collectibles that were a bit more... euh... "spicy"
I've never seen "Wallpaper Simulator." "Wallpaper Engine" is neat if you are into that sorta thing.
People acting like this isn't the same exact dumb crap we've seen with TF2 and CSGO items, acting like bot and afk lobbies to fish for drops aren't a thing, playing the hat and knife markets like professional stock investors, acting like Valve isn't the one profiting the most out of it when they're the ones who dictate scarcity and thus value; All of that over what, digital items? Where have I seen the "Banana" playbook before, I wonder.
I dislike how everyone has made it seem as if the game is one of the moat played games on steam. This is a clear problrm in today's society where everyonr wants to pretend to be smart by ready statistics and yet for soem reason, we have had less innovation in the last 10 years compared to just 1 year during the 90s to 2000 on the birth of the digital era. You all menetion but still put the titles like this. We all know the game isnot being played. Its people leaving automatic bots hitting the banana just to get a digital gif that they can sell for money. Its not a game, its financial betting. Thats all it is.
Does steam track current players. Yes.
Is it near/at the top. Yes.
It has the most/almost the most current players.
except that your wrong, a friend of me is playing the game and yes there are people who actually enjoy a game thats nothing but clicking one button for hours on end for no reason at all.
sure getting some money every now and then is a nice bonus but there are people who enjoy this kind of game and play it for the fun.
my friend for example isnt trading any of the bananas because he is collecting them, which means he doesnt have any financial encouragement but is still spending a lot of hours every week in it because its fun to him.
just because you dont like the game doesnt mean other cant either.
i know the numbers are inflated because of bots but thats just how steam is and probably every game has some ammount of bots but people dont complain about it with most games even if its very obviously noticable.
@@ai-spacedestructor at the end you reach the point and admit I'm right. The numbers are inflated because of the financial scam going in there. Theres no doubt anything can be liked by some people. The worst games in history are probably the favorite game of a few. That doesn't hides the big elephant in the room; the game is being boosted by financial gains. Thats it. So you were really juat disagreeing for the sake of it and don't know what you're saying.
@@ai-spacedestructor At the end of your argument, you ultimately reach the point that we all know. The game is being artificially boosted due to monetary gains, which is basically the same as short trading since the bananas dont even actually have any value except one imaginary imposed by the market. Its just betting, thats it. So, ultimately you prove my point in which youre trying to not see the big elephant in the room which is the boosted, in capital letters, "playerbase" just to disagree for the sake of it. You dont even have a point if youre aware its boosted but somehow think just because some people like it the statistics reflect the reality of the game. I used the word game very loosely here by calling this a game lol
@@ai-spacedestructor Your friend is you, isn't it?
Can't wait for Banana to win GOTY
come mr tally man, telling me banana
The IRS taxes money made over 200 dollars on sales made on steam marketplace. Since you can’t take it out of steam your paying those taxes out of your pocket.
Steam did not classify the game as anything, those tags are user generated.
its nothing but a meme, not something I would waste money on...
Fry "Banana, Banana, Banana"
At this very moment "banana" is Number One most played game on STEAM ...
Edit:
People going bananas ?
So we do live in "Idiocracy" ...
The devs privated their inventory, so nobody can see how many bananas are in there. How is it that you missed that point???
Spiffing Brit
I thought that NFT's r not allowed on Steam ?!?
It isn't an NFT anymore than achievement items are.
You could see the market... go bananas.
It seems like a statement on modern art. You know, stapling a banana to a wall?
Sorry. Taping they used duct tape.
I'm so very confused... and I feel both disappointed and oddly charmed by the audacity.
This is wild. I remember seeing it at position 100 with like 100k users.
Honestly I would be quite intrigued if they turned this into a Cookie Clicker like game that generated collectibles, rather than just clicking on a banana.
The sequal ... *"Apple"* is due for release in 2025!! 😂😂
ofc its full of bots who wtf want to click an banana? never seen or hear any play it.
10:44 flying bug sighting pog.
You sound like you are from 3 different countries, I really like your accent
its a scam the dev already has a ton of rare bananas to pump and dump, the "content" to be added is just to hide that fact, dev inventory is also private which if you have a marketplace like this game has it should not be able to be private / your own game items should not be able to be hidden
If you think virtual banana is a stupid thing to sprend money on, remember that you pay taxes.
Instead of taxes, do you want the police to directly charge the law abiding citizens that benefit from their enforcing law and order?
@@Elearen Militia and sheriffs.
@@varvarith3090 what’s the difference between sheriffs and the police? Someone needs to pay for their food
@@Elearen Sheriffdom is one of the ways to organise law enforcement independent of the state - it can be financed in a number of ways like donations or contract. Dofference is that customer in this case is the citizen, not the state.
Yeah click the banana. We are turning into idiocracy.
So UA-cam doesn't account for most players on steam?
It is moving money from stupid people to more clever and devious people. Probably mainly the dev.
Broken steam? Well that's a sensational title that in no way reflects reality.
You lost the opportunity to get Gaben "fruit ninjaing" (that old mobile game) a banana.
There’s no such thing as a good clicker. It’s a truly horrendous idea.
Somebody make the Pear or Potato
I don't agree with it, but it's not a scam. The ppl that are in the game know what they are getting into they are not being lied to or exploited. Ppl toss the word scam too much.
It's banana clicker, sponsored by all major mouse manufacturers 😂😂😂😂
TROJAN BANANA, SUBDUE BEFORE DETONATION
DOOM: THE DARK BANANAS
People will buy just about anything to feel included. Congrats to whoever made the banana though lol.
I am just wondering, how did they manage to pull it off where all the other big NFT games failed?
2024s answer to planking.
This is obviously totally bananas!
Am i a banana farmer? Wait a minute while i start up my PC. I will be soon. 🍌
Take a shot each time Bellular says Banana 😂
The movie "idiocy" looks like a divine prediction more and more every day.....😢
i thought it was Idiocracy?
They yearn for the mines
never underestimate the human need to do something so very simple, like just clicking on something.
its also the lure of being able to get something that they can sell to other people. doesn't help that they earn it for free, which makes me think Valve might make a change to the way games can generate items again.
By the Maker, I sincerely hope this isn't the future of gaming.
With love, you need to visit a barber bruv.
Hey Time Authority, I want to occupy a different timeline please
I bet this is just a psychological test being done by some consultant group to sell consumer habits and reaction information to game publishers
So cant you use a auto clicker that double clicks every mill 0.00001 second.
The listings alone mean nothing, that's not "market price" for the bananas, it's just a listing price a person picked.
However, the NFT craze that came and went recently has shown that there are plenty of very low IQ rich kids who you can make a lot of money from, they are too rich to care at the losses and someone a little smarter gets some money, it's a victimless transfer.
I wish the new banana bros the best of luck in their NFT 2.0 scheme.
yeah but thee have been actual sales of these fking things for $500+
The only good thing about this game is we now have proof to crypto cultists that blockchain is not useful at all in gaming. It accomplishes what NFTs offer without NFTs.
Now that it’s given us this, we can thank the devs for their service and ban this garbage. There is no way there isn’t money laundering and market manipulation happening.
Is it bad that I want to get into the economy of Banana farming now?
This seems like the gaming equivalent of listening to Justin Bieber, watching a talent show, or reality TV. Or possibly being a serial killer.
You can tell when a community has brain rot when a flash clicker game outperforms most games xD
Gamers are so dense!