This shows how "games" can be designed for the sole purpose of abusing the marketplace mechanics rather than providing any real gameplay or value to genuine players.
I feel like this game was more or less designed to prove how willing people are to exploit the marketplace. Every Steam game that uses steam’s inventory system is infested with bots for the sake of selling the items, TF2 included.
It's NFTs all over again. Artists were mocked when AI got popular because a guy taped a banana to a wall, but it's apparently ok when the banana doesn't exist in the first place.
@@Makeshift_Mulderor it’s just fun being silly every once in a while. More so referring to the egg thing. Banana is legitimately just brain rot stonk bros
@@RrraverCrow i care alot about the fact that you mentioned this kind of, bananas are probably way more popular than oranges. some mightve drank some orange juice but to eat the fruit itself is just far more inferior than a banana you just peel and eat. also if orange is so good, why is there a banana milkshake but not- okay so there is a orange milkshake but that doesnt sound nearly as good as banana. also banana combines much better with other desserts such as chocolate or vanilla. team banana for me i dont dislike oranges, i can eat them, but banana is just something i would gravitate towards far more, a orange i'd eat if i were to lack my vitamins also the color of a banana, yellow and can have those funky black spots on them, its more appealing than that orange asteroid looking thing that houses stringy fruit. bananas can have like strings to them too, but like i find the ones on the orange much more jarring. the banana ones are imo easier to remove than the orange ones. also bananas can be funny, oranges just kinda exist.
Tech bros when artists want protection against AI: Adapt or die dude, you don't got a leg to stand on when a guy can get rich by taping a banana on a wall. Tech bros when this game dropped: *Ayo bananas are made of internet gold!*
Yep. It all started with TF2 hats and just spiraled from there. It's amazing how much of a pass people seem to give Valve considering they're the mainstream origin point for both microtransactions _and_ NFTs. Just about any other game company would have been raked through the coals.
@@MisterVercetti if you think like this, then you should consider naming roblox, wow or runescape instead. if you think its about that a trend impacted it, then you should name csgo instead.
of course it is, tf2 and csgo are the only stable versions of NFT's that only work due to the regulations (users arent able to add their own items by free will, cannot change market cap, etc, they can only create design and hope for approval) which cause praisal towards valve
most come from their discord. fans can make the skins. and if they like it they release it. and the guy that makes em gets a few hundred of em. and they are limited mostly to a few thousand. they only drop for a week or less. so each person can farm like 5-7 of the rare ones. as a rare drops daily. and a common drops every 8 hours i believe.
i feel like anyone "falling" for it are also in on it. Except a few creators or streamers who might have bought some just for content in the past week or so
what kinda surprised me about it that, there was a game called "cats" that its identical to this but different skin with cats and not banana, I think you should cover that as well since these two are indentical and heck they have even same marketplace but different assets but different studios
It amazes me that spiffing brit explained how this entire thing is a scam you won't make money on it. Yet it's still growing. At this point screw it. Let em get scammed lol
I still don’t understand that, this game made me $22. While I play Xbox my autoclicker plays the banana game. I’m not how or why I’m making money selling images of bananas in Steam, but free money is free money.
@@Unchainedful You essentially made money because someone else believes they can make more money than they paid to acquire it. Bigger fools scam. Little more than a chain of human biases and propped up by a seemingly cheap buy-in where the only guaranteed "winner" is the person that started the market.
The RUclipsr Jauwn did a video explaining that even the fees for the $0.03 items can be massively lucrative for both Valve and the dev (everyone gets 33%) if the amount is large enough. If the price was higher, the split would be more in favor of the player, but at the lowest possible price it's 33% each.
BTW the same dev got banned on steam before this with a different name. i watched a video where they dug deep into the developers history. the video is from jauwn called Banana the 4th most played game on steam please don't play this
meanwhile i finally just published my steam page two days ago or so and it’s a bit disheartening knowing that no one will most likely play it :< usually these kind of situations are comical but it’s just really upsetting for anyone having put actual work into their games
I saw Jabroni_Mike stream this game a couple nights ago. His GPU fan he said kicked on and started sounding like a vacuum cleaner. I was like this shits gotta be a crypto miner.
@@Tricendocan’t blame me for thinking that. It’s weird that a game just popped up on the steam store and somehow you can make money off it, I just thought there’s gotta be more to it, what is the developer gaining?
Yeah I dont get why everyone is calling this a scam when there are CS skins that cost literal thousands of dollars, where the game drops cases, where theres other games that have done similar shit to this for years and no one has said anything or at least been this vocal about it. Its literally just a meme trend collection game these content creators are blowing out of proportion. Tell me who is getting scammed from this?
@@Demolition91heck, even Roblox which a literal children's platform, which has been in a lot of how water over gambling and what not does this. The amount of games on that platform that _allegedly_ have serious scams going on (I remember one from when I was probably 10, called vehicle simulator, that has loot drops, which you can buy for in-game currency, which can be bought for roblox money) and that, I would argue is probably just the tip of the iceberg.
A banana is an elongated, edible fruit - botanically a berry[1] - produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, cooking bananas are called plantains, distinguishing them from dessert bananas. The fruit is variable in size, color, and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a peel, which may have a variety of colors when ripe. The fruits grow upward in clusters near the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible seedless (parthenocarp) cultivated bananas come from two wild species - Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana, or hybrids of them.
Funny, Valve is generally pretty good at moderating copyright abuse. Yet they won't do anything about these banana skins that clearly aren't licensed. I just don't get it.
But if you do a little shopping, you can find some good deals on banana pics. Limit yourself to something reasonable like a $1000 budget for banana pics. 🍌
My joke reply that basically said you should spend money to get them was blocked by youtube's nannybot. I can't remember what wording I used so I have no idea what exactly got it blocked.
The nannybot really has it out for me. If I ever use the word that you used before "bananas" or the word you used before "spending", my comment would be blocked.
This will just lead to Valve limiting more of what indies can do out of the gate like how they limit trading cards and achievements now for new unproven games.
Sounds pretty much exactly the same as the gold bots every MMO has been plagued with for decades. People bot to gain ingame currency, then use shady, forbidden 3rd party marketplaces to exchange for cash.
Jauwn has a good video on this too. Nobody is making money but the developers (and Valve but its nothing to them). Nobody knows the drop rates, the devs can print them and nobody knows if they hold all the stock. They are even using the dischord to crowd source the art so they don't have to bother.
Kryten: "It's a banana. It always has been a banana, it always will be a banana. It's a yellow fruit that you unzip and eat the white bits, it's a banana!"
Remember Valve sells hardware. If someone can get enough credit, that can pay for a Steam Deck, then sell that later on the open market. Maybe getting 80% of the value with little work.
you dont have to gamble cs skins to withdraw money from your steam wallet, there's many skin marketplaces that pay you with bank transfer when someone buys your skins
Banana game is a literal testament to the fact that word of mouth, and the hype it generates, is worth more than the personal enjoyment a game can provide. I mean, shizz, pal world should have educated suckers on that.
The ones worth anything don't even drop. They had been limited drops during events or used to be sold on the store, are people seriously playing it without ever checking things out prior?
Good that they dont. Or else steam would be just as regulated, slow and lifeless as console platform storefronts. I switched from ps5 to pc. I dont want to be in such a closed marketplace again. I will gladly take some minor annoyances like bot games.
I don't really think this is a scam. It's an easy exploit but nothing too interesting. I think the csgo skins money laundering scene is way more interesting.
You can also buy a Steam Deck or a Valve Index kit (or multiple) with the money in your Steam wallet, then resell them. You can also publish your own game, buy copies of the game, and legally transfer that money to a bank account (-Valve's cut, ofc).
People who're dumb enough to believe that they'll rise in price over the next years. Don't even know why there's so many people talking about money laundering, the steam marketplace is one of the worst methods to launder any sort of money on any realistic timescale.
Lol, I love how the dev says the skins feature is coming. Like, that's probably one of the easiest "features" to code. Add a button at the top left with the text "skins", and on button press draw an overlay over the screen, and show thumbnails of the "skins" in the overlay that have an onclick event attached to them. Then when the user clicks the thumbnail, update the background png to the skin, and close the overlay. Would probably take 30 minutes to code in.
The entire game is made out of free asset packs, the bananas are using stolen/copywritten content, the bananas that sell for any real amount of money aren't actually obtainable by playing, the "devs" have their trades private because they're obviously the ones selling these unobtainable bananas, and the true creator behind the game has a permanent trade ban on Steam. So yes Muta, you should call it a scam, because that's exactly what it is.
with the steam money, you can buy a bunch of steam keys during a sale, then when the price returns to normal you can sell those keys on a discount key website for a slightly markdowned price, but still higher than the price you paid. ez profits
I am pretty sure the game only popular due to bots farming items and sell it to thousand dollars, which take about 2/3 of playercount and most people think it's just glorified banana themed click counter with item drops, graphic setting and discord link rather than a game.
@@michaeljonathan9715 nah bro me and my 78 alternate personalities love playing banana. So much so that we all play on different accounts. We just got 3 rare bananas and we're selling them for 1700$ each if you want one.
@@michaeljonathan9715 they're 100% not selling it for a thousand/thousands of dollars. just checked the marketplace and everything that's worth anything was either given out for a limited time in a really limited quantity or had been bought in between on the store and aren't sold anymore. And the few who buy those are people who for some reason think that in a year or so those bananas are worth double to triple the amount of money. Kind of like people who buy CS cases for 3 cents as they rise in price over the next few years - except that CS got an actual game and a community behind it so obviously cases that no longer drop at some point get more expensive while the bananas will disappear into wasted money.
At this point, humanity is such a joke right now that I could probably make a game about watching a paint dry and would probably make millions out of it.
@@sh0ker The fact that you can't even have the banana displayed in games just strengthens the metaphor for NFTs. You own the receipt of the banana not the actual banana.
Scams require deception, I don't think it's a scam. I mean if you sell someone a product and it is as described at point of sale but they decide later on that actually they don't really like it, have they been scammed?
12:16 You CAN take funds from your Steam wallet to a bank account, by publishing your own title on Steam & buying copies of that title with the funds. No gambling-game middlemen required.
@@justtus It's someone else's money anyway, so you're not losing funds by selling items on the Steam marketplace & buying your own title while getting the money taxed for what amounts to a legal laundering fee.
The only potential scam aspect of this is that the developers of the game can take and add bananas to the market on a whim whenever they want so they could just give all their friends the most expensive bananas to sell or give themselves bananas to sell.
I went to find the price timeline for cult of the lamb and ended up on a page with the top games with the most ingame players only to see banana and go down the rabbit hole
4:00 I feel like i remember maybe 10 years ago a group of like 5 guys sat outside Valve HQ with a “Release Half Life 3” sign and it got their attention…am I just not aware that people aren’t doing that with “Fix TF2”?
This shows how "games" can be designed for the sole purpose of abusing the marketplace mechanics rather than providing any real gameplay or value to genuine players.
I feel like this game was more or less designed to prove how willing people are to exploit the marketplace. Every Steam game that uses steam’s inventory system is infested with bots for the sake of selling the items, TF2 included.
Like they do in Wall Street?
People when money: 🤑🤑🤑
It's NFTs all over again. Artists were mocked when AI got popular because a guy taped a banana to a wall, but it's apparently ok when the banana doesn't exist in the first place.
I dont see this any worse than cs
they turned TF2 idle bot into a real game
Pretty much
Hey, its always a market, but if folks can profit, folks can profit.
For years I have been trying to get this out my mind and u remind me 😢
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Funny you should mention that; most of this game's player base are idle bots.
Banana being the most popular game on steam is such a human moment.
Monke
Real
It's like World Record Egg on Twitter.
People think its cute to be stupid.
@@Makeshift_Mulderor it’s just fun being silly every once in a while. More so referring to the egg thing. Banana is legitimately just brain rot stonk bros
It should have some human music.
What's funny is it's pulling like 10,000 times the numbers that Suicide Squad is lol. Rocksteady just should have made a clickable orange.
People like bananas more than oranges
@@RrraverCrow People like oranges more than pandering garbage.
@@RrraverCrow i care alot about the fact that you mentioned this kind of, bananas are probably way more popular than oranges. some mightve drank some orange juice but to eat the fruit itself is just far more inferior than a banana you just peel and eat. also if orange is so good, why is there a banana milkshake but not- okay so there is a orange milkshake but that doesnt sound nearly as good as banana. also banana combines much better with other desserts such as chocolate or vanilla. team banana for me
i dont dislike oranges, i can eat them, but banana is just something i would gravitate towards far more, a orange i'd eat if i were to lack my vitamins
also the color of a banana, yellow and can have those funky black spots on them, its more appealing than that orange asteroid looking thing that houses stringy fruit. bananas can have like strings to them too, but like i find the ones on the orange much more jarring. the banana ones are imo easier to remove than the orange ones.
also bananas can be funny, oranges just kinda exist.
@@citizenofhyruleyou literally peel oranges too
@@citizenofhyrulethere a reason why Orange,grape, and apple juice exists. No banana juice.
What Mutahar fails to consider is how big of a hit this game is among various apes
And Minions!
@@ThunderDragonRandy BANANA!
Tech bros when artists want protection against AI: Adapt or die dude, you don't got a leg to stand on when a guy can get rich by taping a banana on a wall.
Tech bros when this game dropped: *Ayo bananas are made of internet gold!*
its THE game for every average CDawgVA viewer
Well, there goes the government.
I always told people, steam community market is where the idea for NFTs originated from.
Yep. It all started with TF2 hats and just spiraled from there. It's amazing how much of a pass people seem to give Valve considering they're the mainstream origin point for both microtransactions _and_ NFTs. Just about any other game company would have been raked through the coals.
@@MisterVercetti if you think like this, then you should consider naming roblox, wow or runescape instead. if you think its about that a trend impacted it, then you should name csgo instead.
@@realmcafeeeveryone knows nfts started on imvu😂
of course it is, tf2 and csgo are the only stable versions of NFT's that only work due to the regulations (users arent able to add their own items by free will, cannot change market cap, etc, they can only create design and hope for approval) which cause praisal towards valve
The Spiffing Brit might be part of the surge in players.
Perhaps
It was already the fourth most played game when he made the video. lol
Oh absolutely. His videos get a plethora of videos.
First him, then Asmon (300k players), then Charlie (500k players), now Muta (800k players), notice how their videos are just helping the "game" growth
@@AstridKuponsken I believe it's pronounced *Assmold.*
The Banana is basically poor man's _Cookie Clicker,_ but every kinds of bananas that you are rewarded looks like it came straight out of _Omega Mart._
It's not even as well made as Cookie Clicker though. It's trash.
cookie clicker has progression.
that's an insult to idle games
most come from their discord. fans can make the skins. and if they like it they release it. and the guy that makes em gets a few hundred of em.
and they are limited mostly to a few thousand. they only drop for a week or less. so each person can farm like 5-7 of the rare ones.
as a rare drops daily. and a common drops every 8 hours i believe.
That's also an insult to Omega Mart products.
Their lemons are top tier.
The crazy part is that someone already explained in a video how the scam works and yet people STILL decide to fall for it.
Sometimes you just can't fix stupid no matter how much duct tape you have 🤣
i feel like anyone "falling" for it are also in on it. Except a few creators or streamers who might have bought some just for content in the past week or so
Why wouldn't u accept free money?
@@mitaskeledzija6269 because there's always a catch, especially when money is involved
@@mitaskeledzija6269 It's not free -- it comes at a cost of supporting and encouraging this sort of thing on Steam.
what kinda surprised me about it that, there was a game called "cats" that its identical to this but different skin with cats and not banana, I think you should cover that as well since these two are indentical and heck they have even same marketplace but different assets but different studios
THe cat version? there is also the egg version one
Bad banana.
W comment
Bed banana
Soggy Banana
Bad banana.
Stinky Banana.
It amazes me that spiffing brit explained how this entire thing is a scam you won't make money on it. Yet it's still growing. At this point screw it. Let em get scammed lol
I still don’t understand that, this game made me $22. While I play Xbox my autoclicker plays the banana game. I’m not how or why I’m making money selling images of bananas in Steam, but free money is free money.
@@Unchainedful You essentially made money because someone else believes they can make more money than they paid to acquire it. Bigger fools scam. Little more than a chain of human biases and propped up by a seemingly cheap buy-in where the only guaranteed "winner" is the person that started the market.
I can't believe it's not NFT!
Now comes in Lite!
But is it low fat?
Steam is NFT marketplace in disguise
This has more worth than an nft tbh.
BELIEVE IT!
Tf2 started a ripple effect.
Psychological horror 😂.
This dev is a troll and he knows it.
EDIT: Oh the community chooses the tags...that's unsettling 😅.
When you're losing money. You'll definitely feel psychologically horrified, and financially as well.
Those are tags applied by other people
I was attacked by wild banana as a child. This game scares me.
@@WalterHWhite-ri7pn ohhh didn't know that! Makes it even more disturbing 😅.
it's a community tag
tag placed by the community
"It's a banana Michael, how much could it cost? 10 dollars?"
Too bad the banana isn't in pyjamas
I understand this reference. 😅
Nor can we throw it down the stairs. I am disappoint.
CORE MEMORY UNLOCKED
Detroit
Or Chasing Teddy Bears.
The RUclipsr Jauwn did a video explaining that even the fees for the $0.03 items can be massively lucrative for both Valve and the dev (everyone gets 33%) if the amount is large enough.
If the price was higher, the split would be more in favor of the player, but at the lowest possible price it's 33% each.
BTW the same dev got banned on steam before this with a different name. i watched a video where they dug deep into the developers history. the video is from jauwn called Banana the 4th most played game on steam please don't play this
Interesting... Do you mind send the title of the video?
I'd like to know as well
@@qwertaman2009 Jauwn is who op is referencing, he made a video about Banana recently as well.
@@qwertaman2009 yeah sure I need to look through my watch history
@@qwertaman2009 it’s a video from jauwn called banana the 4th most popular game on steam please don’t play this
meanwhile i finally just published my steam page two days ago or so and it’s a bit disheartening knowing that no one will most likely play it :< usually these kind of situations are comical but it’s just really upsetting for anyone having put actual work into their games
@@frightfactoryYTmost people just get lucky once and from there it’s a snowball effect.
Just add rare drops to it on the market and your game will blow up, it's a cheat code now, don't you see?
I saw Jabroni_Mike stream this game a couple nights ago. His GPU fan he said kicked on and started sounding like a vacuum cleaner. I was like this shits gotta be a crypto miner.
Nah
haven't noticed this on 4070
@@Tricendocan’t blame me for thinking that. It’s weird that a game just popped up on the steam store and somehow you can make money off it, I just thought there’s gotta be more to it, what is the developer gaining?
He was running his pr0n bot net in the background.
nah, it aint
if you hold onto too many and don't sell them quick enough they turn brown and delete themselves soon after
even worse LOL
i guess you could say this whole bot situation is bananas
i'll see myself out
Boo get off the stage.
I'd have done it if you didn't
@@Whipcream133🤓
@@alenmack3471 Don’t lie to yourself. This guy is RUINING comedian night. We need a new comedy up the stage.
He split.
The best parody of CS:GO I've ever seen
As a banana myself, I appreciate the business to my brothers.
I think it's time for you to split.
You guys are a bunch of scammers!
I respect the hustle my brothers a banana too
Hmm.... is it considered "Banana Trafficking?"
This comment section has lost its a peel.
Looks like the state of Valve is going bananas.
don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but big video game companies have been doing this for years.
Yeah I dont get why everyone is calling this a scam when there are CS skins that cost literal thousands of dollars, where the game drops cases, where theres other games that have done similar shit to this for years and no one has said anything or at least been this vocal about it. Its literally just a meme trend collection game these content creators are blowing out of proportion. Tell me who is getting scammed from this?
@@Demolition91heck, even Roblox which a literal children's platform, which has been in a lot of how water over gambling and what not does this. The amount of games on that platform that _allegedly_ have serious scams going on (I remember one from when I was probably 10, called vehicle simulator, that has loot drops, which you can buy for in-game currency, which can be bought for roblox money) and that, I would argue is probably just the tip of the iceberg.
@@Demolition91 That might be why Valve doesn't do anything about it, they aren't technically doing anything different.
But most of those companies at least make actual games. They scam you but you at least get a game. I have a hard time calling this a game
@@seanpoulton2446 Well its a free game so you cant really complain
Its like the NFTS all over again but in GAMES
A banana is an elongated, edible fruit - botanically a berry[1] - produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, cooking bananas are called plantains, distinguishing them from dessert bananas. The fruit is variable in size, color, and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a peel, which may have a variety of colors when ripe. The fruits grow upward in clusters near the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible seedless (parthenocarp) cultivated bananas come from two wild species - Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana, or hybrids of them.
facts
Bananas are so cool. Why this game gotta smear the good name 😭
I farted
Jesse, we need to money launder with bananas.
NFT without the NFT 😂
And cost less than maintaining NFT blockchain.
@@rashidiswalbeit still paying for pixels :^)
I can't believe we've found something more useless than nfts
@@iziah2161 yeah like cosmetics. or did you meant something else?
banana phone
ring ring ring ring ring ring
banana phone
Money Laundering. With stuff like this the answer's always money laundering.
Money laundering using lootboxes on a DRM platform. And somehow gamers love it.
alright, let's see if anybody in the comments has it figured out..
*ctrl+f: Money L*-
yep, this is it.
But you lose 30% to market. You can do better
People forget that criminals also play games 😂
@@bouncedayBetter then 51% to the casino
I remember Payday 2 skins going for crazy prices (many probably still do) especially for the legendary weapon skins in that game.
Skins dropped hard in value when they allowed you to customize your own guns.
Not sure about the legendaries
@@UmiZoomR They already dropped hard in value prior - you know, when they started just dropping instead of requiring a 2.50€ key to be unboxed.
Funny, Valve is generally pretty good at moderating copyright abuse. Yet they won't do anything about these banana skins that clearly aren't licensed. I just don't get it.
I just want some free bananas on my inventory and that's it. IDGAF about idiots spending money with it 🤣
But if you do a little shopping, you can find some good deals on banana pics. Limit yourself to something reasonable like a $1000 budget for banana pics. 🍌
My joke reply that basically said you should spend money to get them was blocked by youtube's nannybot. I can't remember what wording I used so I have no idea what exactly got it blocked.
@@Dethmeister bro. I got warned for HATE SPEECH for commenting that a cat is chonky.
Moderation in this media makes no sense.
The nannybot really has it out for me. If I ever use the word that you used before "bananas" or the word you used before "spending", my comment would be blocked.
@@OctyabrAprelya I agree.
This will just lead to Valve limiting more of what indies can do out of the gate like how they limit trading cards and achievements now for new unproven games.
I wish Valve would just close down the entire Steam(gambling/scam)marketplace at this point. But... $$$ I guess. I'm too old for this shit.
Sounds pretty much exactly the same as the gold bots every MMO has been plagued with for decades. People bot to gain ingame currency, then use shady, forbidden 3rd party marketplaces to exchange for cash.
This game sounds like something you would hear from a comedy cartoon.
Jauwn has a good video on this too. Nobody is making money but the developers (and Valve but its nothing to them). Nobody knows the drop rates, the devs can print them and nobody knows if they hold all the stock. They are even using the dischord to crowd source the art so they don't have to bother.
Kryten: "It's a banana. It always has been a banana, it always will be a banana. It's a yellow fruit that you unzip and eat the white bits, it's a banana!"
Remember Valve sells hardware. If someone can get enough credit, that can pay for a Steam Deck, then sell that later on the open market. Maybe getting 80% of the value with little work.
Cant Believe that bananas are giving back to the community
you dont have to gamble cs skins to withdraw money from your steam wallet, there's many skin marketplaces that pay you with bank transfer when someone buys your skins
You an charlie do amazing jobs at explaining topics bro much love
It's NFTs, just using a different backend and giving Valve a cut.
Why am I not surprised a banana game is popular.
This shows how crafty people can get around systems. It's shocking that Valve allows such activity to go on with this Banana game.
Convinced the Banana game is the cause of the current increase in prices.
Banana game is a literal testament to the fact that word of mouth, and the hype it generates, is worth more than the personal enjoyment a game can provide. I mean, shizz, pal world should have educated suckers on that.
that was already proven by Vampire Survivors
1. Get rare bananas
2. Sell rare bananas
3. Get mooar games that I will never get around to playing
4. ?
5. PROFIT!!1!
The ones worth anything don't even drop.
They had been limited drops during events or used to be sold on the store, are people seriously playing it without ever checking things out prior?
Valve quality control is basically nonexistent at this point
Hilarious that people thought that valve would give an f about bots
Good that they dont. Or else steam would be just as regulated, slow and lifeless as console platform storefronts. I switched from ps5 to pc. I dont want to be in such a closed marketplace again. I will gladly take some minor annoyances like bot games.
@@cirescythe I'm a tf2 player, so I see it as more than a bit minor
I saw someone playing this on steam and remembered seeing the thumbnail for this video but not watching it. Thanks for being so informative
I don't really think this is a scam. It's an easy exploit but nothing too interesting. I think the csgo skins money laundering scene is way more interesting.
lmao, I didn't watch the end of the video until I commented.
So people discovered the loophole that the japanese have been doing with Pachinko for years now
i was watching jauwn’s video about this when i got the notification lol
At least the devs got the genres right with the Psychological Horror Tag
Hes right. All those bots on counter strike should be dealt with
This is like that banana that someone ducktaped to a wall
Nfts should definitely be banned
No
Yes @@stealthysaucepan2016
Right click and save as.
Ad infinitum
We did it boys. World has been freed from capitalism
Damn valve is not patching this one infinite money glitch better get into it
First Spiffing Brit, Then Asmondgold, and now Muta. Steam gamers are bananas for bananas
Critical talked about it yesterday too
You can also buy a Steam Deck or a Valve Index kit (or multiple) with the money in your Steam wallet, then resell them. You can also publish your own game, buy copies of the game, and legally transfer that money to a bank account (-Valve's cut, ofc).
This whole situation is bananas.
How is this game even a-peel-ing to exploit for marketplace shenanigans?
Geez everyone is going bananas…
Who tf is buying the bananas? Where does the money come from?
Gen Zs
Money laundery
Its stolen money getting washed like g2a
People who're dumb enough to believe that they'll rise in price over the next years.
Don't even know why there's so many people talking about money laundering, the steam marketplace is one of the worst methods to launder any sort of money on any realistic timescale.
Lol, I love how the dev says the skins feature is coming. Like, that's probably one of the easiest "features" to code. Add a button at the top left with the text "skins", and on button press draw an overlay over the screen, and show thumbnails of the "skins" in the overlay that have an onclick event attached to them. Then when the user clicks the thumbnail, update the background png to the skin, and close the overlay. Would probably take 30 minutes to code in.
The entire game is made out of free asset packs, the bananas are using stolen/copywritten content, the bananas that sell for any real amount of money aren't actually obtainable by playing, the "devs" have their trades private because they're obviously the ones selling these unobtainable bananas, and the true creator behind the game has a permanent trade ban on Steam. So yes Muta, you should call it a scam, because that's exactly what it is.
The whole situation is just bananas
with the steam money, you can buy a bunch of steam keys during a sale, then when the price returns to normal you can sell those keys on a discount key website for a slightly markdowned price, but still higher than the price you paid. ez profits
It's obviously the minions - banana.
Same thing with NFT.
History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes.
Bro just couldn't handle that the banana was a more popular game.
I am pretty sure the game only popular due to bots farming items and sell it to thousand dollars, which take about 2/3 of playercount and most people think it's just glorified banana themed click counter with item drops, graphic setting and discord link rather than a game.
@@michaeljonathan9715 nah bro me and my 78 alternate personalities love playing banana. So much so that we all play on different accounts. We just got 3 rare bananas and we're selling them for 1700$ each if you want one.
@@michaeljonathan9715 they're 100% not selling it for a thousand/thousands of dollars.
just checked the marketplace and everything that's worth anything was either given out for a limited time in a really limited quantity or had been bought in between on the store and aren't sold anymore.
And the few who buy those are people who for some reason think that in a year or so those bananas are worth double to triple the amount of money.
Kind of like people who buy CS cases for 3 cents as they rise in price over the next few years - except that CS got an actual game and a community behind it so obviously cases that no longer drop at some point get more expensive while the bananas will disappear into wasted money.
This just proves evolution. Even as human beings, we can't overcome our desire for Bananas.
Goes to show that Valve is highly incompetent when it comes to fighting bots.
Yep
When it makes them money...
why would they?
@@monobrow538 Because it hurts their brand and eventually causes business losses.
this entire situation feels like something you'd see in a dream
I ran my laptop for 24 hours. I got 2 cents
Imagine the shock of the 6 people who are still in NFT market right now
At this point, humanity is such a joke right now that I could probably make a game about watching a paint dry and would probably make millions out of it.
So it is basically a NFT game that actually works (still not fun)
Plot twist: you can't even use the skin for the bananas
@@sh0ker The fact that you can't even have the banana displayed in games just strengthens the metaphor for NFTs. You own the receipt of the banana not the actual banana.
It's NFTs all over again.
It’s not even that. It’s like digital card collection and you don’t even do anything with them
Scams require deception, I don't think it's a scam. I mean if you sell someone a product and it is as described at point of sale but they decide later on that actually they don't really like it, have they been scammed?
12:16 You CAN take funds from your Steam wallet to a bank account, by publishing your own title on Steam & buying copies of that title with the funds. No gambling-game middlemen required.
Except you'd loose 30% in steam fees and probably around 20% in taxes and other fees by the time it goes into your account.
@@justtus It's someone else's money anyway, so you're not losing funds by selling items on the Steam marketplace & buying your own title while getting the money taxed for what amounts to a legal laundering fee.
And there's a new game called "Cats" doing the same thing.
Mmh, banana or cybertruck, banana or cybertruck, mmmmh... banana!
I bet Tech Lead buys bananas on Steam.
Nobody wants my banana
The only potential scam aspect of this is that the developers of the game can take and add bananas to the market on a whim whenever they want so they could just give all their friends the most expensive bananas to sell or give themselves bananas to sell.
this is going to be an interesting foot note in the history of steam
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I have a feeling Valve is starting to destroy itself…
Seems like TF2 got a rival, the amount of bots in this game is just wow xD
Muta saying "you need to be medically assessed" will always be his motto
The moment when banana said: "banana" and you have to do the qte to banana the banana, was actually peak banana gameplay.
The "psychological horror" tag is meta
I went to find the price timeline for cult of the lamb and ended up on a page with the top games with the most ingame players only to see banana and go down the rabbit hole
4:00 I feel like i remember maybe 10 years ago a group of like 5 guys sat outside Valve HQ with a “Release Half Life 3” sign and it got their attention…am I just not aware that people aren’t doing that with “Fix TF2”?
Meanwhile muta himself making more **VMs** for mining *bananas* after video