The only achievement is "click the banana", which happens to also be the entirety of the gameplay, yet only 83% of players have it, meaning a not-insignificant chunk of players was curious enough to launch the game but stopped just shy of a single interaction. Truly remarkable.
It's even more weird. You get the achievement only if you close the game. That means a significant amount of players either didn't play this free game or didn't close it since they started it
you guys are thinking about it wrong, so it's free to play that means that just a steam account has it. so let's say I have a bot farm of 1,000,000 steam accounts but the bots are doing the most cost effective thing at all times, lets say their is a spike in a banana price that makes it more worth it for 359,948 for my bots to switch from what they were doing. now 204,034 of those are just opening the game for the first time, they have never click on the game to mine not even once.
Interestingly when you go into the devs recent played games there's also a game called "Egg" made by another dev which is the exact same game with the exact same market speculation thing, seems like this is a common thing. And funnily enough it seems the dev hid their aliases after this video
@@jamestomlin5525 I can guarantee if he disappeared, some mega fans of his would sleuth it out in a week, tops. Probably less time if we're being realistic.
@@Rx2TF lots of money launderying happens on steam. it's a pretty decent method of doing it if you don't mind the cut that steam/local taxes will take. Just sending transfers across countries can raise a lot of eyebrows and trigger automatic audits. Doing it through something like steam can obfuscate what's going on for a lil while. To be clear, money laundering is when you take "dirty money"(usually drug money, scammed money, etc) and you do something to make it "clean" money, or money that has a paper trail. This is why steam is valuable for laundering money. You can spin up thousands of bots that purchase marketplace stuff/overpriced games using dirty money on gift cards/whatever, then that money is "cleaned" through steam and sent along. After that, as long as taxes are paid on the income from steam most countries won't raise an eyebrow about this kind of stuff. This is also a really common method for transfering funds out of stolen steam accounts. There are thousands of overpriced games that only sell because of this.
I'm still playing it, because I was one of the first 10k players. But I started selling the normal bananas roughly 2 weeks ago, and they're almost all sold lol.
I am sure they also have a flying car NFT so it is still the future you were promised, the psychic message we sent to the past was just delivered by someone that did not really understand what a NFT was, and can you blame not even the investors understand them. case in point this is not a non fungible token, no smart contract established this banana. you have to trust the steam market place not open source the code of the contract, not that investors ever look in to that.
I mean, the banana at least is more "art" than Take The Money And Run. You have to actually replace the banana once it rots, make sure it stays stuck to the wall, etc. Take The Money And Run is literally just two blank canvasses. -I love it.-
I hope you have not heard about Bois (or however he is written) "Fettecke" (fat corner). If not, try to find out about it, I don't want to spoil the fun. It's a decade or even more ago but I still smile whenever I think about it.
Dev gets 1p for every banana sold on the marketplace (10% of sale, at least 1p) - between that and fabricating "rare" items to sell themselves, for how much work went into it, they've probably made a gargantuan amount of money.
@@NicholasFoote THIS. I know a game that just left "early-access" (for 10 years lol) and I eventually felt like the company was money laundering, and that's why the dev seemed to be trying to un-fun the game.
About Lass ich sliden. This is german with "sliden" coming from the english language. "Lass ich sliden" means "I'll give it a pass", like when you do your least effort for a task, and you give it to your teacher and the teacher says "ok, I'll let it pass".
@@doubledouble4g379they actually sold non fungable tulips because they were infected by a virus that made them stripped in a very irregular patern so they visibly very distinct from any other tulip
I'm frankly disappointed that the "game" isn't literally called "tulips". If you're going to be this on the nose, go all the way, claim it's performance art and not just market shenanigans.
"But what should probably also establish is that they are potentially a relatively unique kind of German, and I'm not just saying that because they have over a thousand hours on Hearts of Iron IV..." I choked on my drink
He is a beginner, a friend of mine (he and me are also german) has about 3,424 hours playtime and 210/211 Achievements xD And the last Achievement is or was bugged... Also 1.2k hours in Civ and 450 in Victoria, its just insane xD
guy seems mega based. Only seems like the right thing to go support his scam operation by clicking a few bananas if people are gonna make vids to snitch on him lol.
@LeifTunteri-lm6un hmm you must not be very based then if you can't tell ;). Let my man make his money and like Trump if he wants. If he's actually German, then he's basically a unicorn, being like 1 of the only 5 Germans left who aren't raging lefties lol. So he must be protected ;))
Probably to make it more likely to be seen by a wider audience. DDLC set the precident that if you have an innocuous simple looking game, but give it the tag "psychological horror", people will get it out of curiosity to see what secrets this game has to offer. Of course, the only horrors here are the horrors of gambling on NFT's
@@ordinarryalien but they can be removed if reported as inaccurate, which is how 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel somehow LOST it's psychological horror tag, a tag which I contend to be 100% accurate. However it has gained the survival horror tag, which is fine too, I guess.
Not saying I need these bananas in my life, but I've been researching how to sell my kidneys for the last 45 minutes, and how to grow more kidneys for the last 44 minutes.
At the very start he didn't pay for it and it had genuine watermarks from the places he got them from, but the people from the stock photo pages complained because he was using copyrighted material without their consent. So after that, for some time, we had our usual stock images but without watermarks because Spiff started to buy them. The problem is that during that time most of the comments were "I miss the watermarks". Because of that Spiff decided to add the watermarks back in, but in order to do that he created his own watermarks so people knew he actually paid for them and there wasn't any misunderstanding.
It's even better than that. He _was_ paying for the images, but he was using the watermarked versions anyway because it's fun and quirky. But they told him to stop. (Presumably because it makes it look like it's okay to steal stock photos if you leave the watermarks on.) And, technically, it still counts as copyright infringement because the license grants the use of the _unmarked_ image, not the watermark. The rest is spot on. He did some videos without watermarks, we complained, and he made his own.
I don't know if this term might be something specifically from Lower Saxony where this developer is supposedly from, but as someone from eastern Germany it really makes no sense to me.
It's actually rather simple "I'll let it slide" is a common phrase in english. The developer is just using denglish. "Lass ich Sliden." Same Energy as "I think I spider." and so on.
Thank you for covering this game. I was looking down the list of free to play on steam and saw Banana and was wondering why in the world someone would play that.
One could also mention that it’s not "schleiden" but “sliden". For those that want to know: It is just the English word "slide" with an additional "n" and thus is pronounced exactly like that. Not that I would expect Spiff to know this, and he pronounced “Lass ich” near perfect.
Also a side note: the previous username "Abschieben schafft Wohnraum" (Deportation creates living room) is something a far right party in Germany uses for the EU elections.
If you have illegitimate income, get a dev with no scruples to make a game like this, have a small team of people buying the items direct from Steam using the illegitimate funds, resell those items back on the market, use those funds to buy more items from Steam directly to maximize return. Developer pays the now legitimate funds back to original funder as extortionate rent on a building they're not using (minus their cut). Now you know how to money launder on Steam!
i mean i dont wanna be that guy but you cant launder any real money through a game like this.. so you buy $150000 worth of steam gift cards. then you get audited and go to jail. but lets say you somehow turn your cash into steam credit without alarmbells. you buy $150000 of bananas then you try to sell them. oh wait there isnt 150000 in this banana economy so your just stuck with your bananas. but what if you only wanted to launder say $20k you ask? well you dont. you dont need to launder 20k just spend it. idk why everyone keeps saying this is for money laundering. it isnt. it would be one of the worst possible attempts at money laundering i have ever heard of.
for me it was a friend of mine that mentioned the game and how you could get the bananas for free and make money off of it... My emidiate response was "well who the hell is gonna buy a useless banana png ?" and "well sure even if you make money off of it, does the amount of money you made justify the expense in energy, etc ?" Needless to say my friend saw my points and agreed with me.. tho think he still kept running the game on the background or smth 😅
Literally paused the video and had to replay the word. I was shook. If I hadn’t been a subscriber for years I would have been one again on this day. My boy got real. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
@@R4MMU5 Well, I assume it to be because I lived the first almost 17 years of my life in Germany, until about two years ago. So German is my native language and I have heard a bunch of Denglisch, like e.g. "Grüß' mal Deine Family!" and other ear cancer-inducing stuff.
Was about to write this vomment myself but you did the first don't know how he got the translation, but i find it kinda funny that he tries to pronounce "sliden" in a germna way when its literally used as an english word with the english pronounciation just different ending
I was gonna comment about this too, but luckily checked the comments first to see if someone already mentioned it! Spiff's German pronunciation is so good but him pronouncing sliden as a German word made me cringe every time
This is kind of waht I thought when NFTs started coming out of the woods. I am like "we already have this, it's on the Steam marketplace and we didn't need blockchain for it either" lmao.
Yeah, probably not humanity. Most of the activity must be bots trying to diversify into high-risk assets. Way too much centralization around an obviously lousy game to be human-driven.
@@genxer1824 With the current state of AI most of those bots are setup and operated by humans. We're quite far out from AI being able to dynamically design new bots to get around detection.
While watching your video: got banana hyped, installed it, played it, got 100% achievements, uninstalled it, liked the video. Now let's watch the rest 12 minutes of it :)
All the devs would need to do to get more people buying banannas is an achievement for having every type of bannanas, so hoarders/collectors try to buy every bananna to show off to their friends
Apparently this makes so little sense that it wants to translate "Embrace Monke get bananas" to "Embrace Monke get bananas" in english. Brainrot detection is a new feature, who knew. Not perfected yet though
steam sees it and leaves it they profit off it, otherwise the porn and achievement games not even for gaming would have been banned far before AI banned
As the other person said. They don't care. In fact, they profit from developers scamming users. You think if they don't care for cheaters in TF2, they will care for such minor things as people getting scammed? You're naive.
Why would they? They literally make money from this. It costs them absolutely nothing and they get a cut from every payment players make for this game.
@@jakubs.5966 But how is this game a scam? You get free bananas from it and no one forces you to buy them. It is just for making a collection. I mean you get exactly what you pay fo :D.
The only reason for all this nonsense exists on steam are for people who into cosmetics and like to customize their Steam profile pages. You can make any game that didn't have any content or gameplay on them and just make some side content that can be showcased on the steam profiles. Like an achievement icon, some wallpaper or anything that the steam profile can showcase. People will buy them for that reason alone. The rules and reason of this world is simple, if people want "a thing" that "thing" becomes valuable, and other people can sell that "thing" to make other thing. This is the purest reason people make some "thing".
I thought that it was some kind of prank until I went to steamdb and saw that "banana" had almost twice the current players amount than it was shown on the video, where the only thing above banana is cs go and Dota 2
I love how at 2:26 he pronounces the 2 German words correctly, but than miss pronounces the English word that that is literally pronounced the english way.
@@grilledflatbread4692 No, it's "denglisch (deutsch englisch)", english words used with german grammar. You would say "slide" like in english and then add -n, which makes the word work with german grammar. Also he got the translation wrong, it would translate to "I'll let it slide", not "Let me slide".
I thought Osnabrück was quite large. Perhaps I'm confused but don't you guys have your own Uni and airport? Before the global flu with my partner we were considering moving to germany and got an offer as a welder and even told me I could finish my engineering degree there, but perhaps I'm confused. We had issues to find rent without first getting the job and we were hesitant on moving abroad without securing a life project first but it seemed a nice place to live (a bit colder than here tho)
I love how I saw the Banana game leading steam charts and didn't even have to search it up, I just searched Spiffing Brit and sure enough, banana chaos ensues lol
Just couse im a nitpicker. Sliden is not german. its slide, but morphed. Lots of verbs in german ends with -en. We call that denglisch. (deutsch + englisch).
You don't have to leave the game running, you just have to open the game and click once at the intervals described. No need to rack up an expensive electricity bill, just do it when you're already on your computer.
@@TheAnimeEncyclopedia It's an alright game. I played it when it first came out. But the netcode is really sub-par and takes away from the game a lot. The upgrades are also somewhat uninspired, many of them are just stat boosts. Some of them are really fun upgrades, but there really needs to be more, and for some reason the devs just never updated the game. The mods I played have been pretty poorly designed, but I imagine things have gotten better over time.
Honestly BANANA is an homage to the times when Germany still had a massive wall in its middle. In East-Germany, getting bananas was so rare, that there were extremely long queues, just to get some bananas, and you didn't get many either. So yeah, banana is a canon event.
Love how "Sliden" is a techically a english word, but germanized, so its pronounced just like you would in english "Slide-en" that title more accurately means "i'll let it slide"
I find it hilarious that the images are those of bananas and that their sole purpose is money because the first thing that came to my mind is banana republics and it immediately made me chuckle. 😂
1:22 So 16.7% of people downloaded and opened this game, then closed it and never played it again before clicking the banana even once? It's such a simple task, why is the percentage so high?
*1 Like = 1 Priceless Banana Summoned Into Existence*
(Priceless because it has no real value)
I like Bananas
Nice
Hi how your tea?
Splendid
Hi
The only achievement is "click the banana", which happens to also be the entirety of the gameplay, yet only 83% of players have it, meaning a not-insignificant chunk of players was curious enough to launch the game but stopped just shy of a single interaction. Truly remarkable.
It's even more weird. You get the achievement only if you close the game. That means a significant amount of players either didn't play this free game or didn't close it since they started it
Maybe the game just didn't click with them?
They closed it by killing the task maybe?
No it means 17% of people either didn't play or couldn't launch the game
you guys are thinking about it wrong, so it's free to play that means that just a steam account has it. so let's say I have a bot farm of 1,000,000 steam accounts but the bots are doing the most cost effective thing at all times, lets say their is a spike in a banana price that makes it more worth it for 359,948 for my bots to switch from what they were doing. now 204,034 of those are just opening the game for the first time, they have never click on the game to mine not even once.
*Man in a suit screaming*
"NFTs ARE NEVER GONNA TAKE OFF, WE NEED SOMETHING NEW."
*his employee holding a banana*
"Hear me out..."
ONLYFANS, YOU'RE A GENIUS EMPLOYEE NUMBER 5!
This shit made me spit out my tea while laughing! Gold star!😂
This has been documented/prophecized in the music video of Tally Hall's Banana Man
Plot twist - the developer is just King K Rool trying to launder all the bananas he stole from Donkey Kong
😂
Plot twist is this game made from an indian scammer🤗
Yes LMAO.
Interestingly when you go into the devs recent played games there's also a game called "Egg" made by another dev which is the exact same game with the exact same market speculation thing, seems like this is a common thing.
And funnily enough it seems the dev hid their aliases after this video
Money laundering.
Yep
Lol it's funny but man, spiff needs to be careful
People dissappear for less :x
@@jamestomlin5525 I can guarantee if he disappeared, some mega fans of his would sleuth it out in a week, tops. Probably less time if we're being realistic.
Also saw in their inventory for trade, they had hundreds of items for other games called colormeleons, missile tank and many more
@@craigboden9455 Makes sense unfortunately.
Pretty sure 99% of the players are just bots mining bananas.
They are old bots with grandkids. Botnanas if you will.
I don't know if a simply auto clicker counts as a bot...
Pretty sure some of them are the dev's sock puppets, trying to inflate the prices
LOL No. This is clearly wrong. It's obviously the minions - banana.
That's the true reason the robots will revolt one day.
So it's NFTs...but without the blockchain...and its on Steam.
if you think about it, things like tf2 hats sort of work the same way
@@Someone-sc2hk at least tf2 is fun
@@Gh3rkinz was. fun.
@@adamssmasher I just assumed it still would be I haven’t played since about 2012 so tht sucks I guess it’s no good now :/ haha
an NFTN'T if you will
This youtube vid opened on it's own, I didn't even have my computer on. These exploits need to stop spiff!
you cannot avoid my videos
Side effects of drinking tea are compulsory watching Spiffing Brit videos at random.
Sounds about right.
RUclips is a totally balanced app without any exploits
Are you GOD@@thespiffingbrit
Spiff casually bringing attention to a random guy's money laundering scheme was not something I had on my bingo card
"Money laundering" lmao
ironically, this isn't even the first video I've seen on it
@@Rx2TF lots of money launderying happens on steam. it's a pretty decent method of doing it if you don't mind the cut that steam/local taxes will take. Just sending transfers across countries can raise a lot of eyebrows and trigger automatic audits. Doing it through something like steam can obfuscate what's going on for a lil while. To be clear, money laundering is when you take "dirty money"(usually drug money, scammed money, etc) and you do something to make it "clean" money, or money that has a paper trail. This is why steam is valuable for laundering money. You can spin up thousands of bots that purchase marketplace stuff/overpriced games using dirty money on gift cards/whatever, then that money is "cleaned" through steam and sent along. After that, as long as taxes are paid on the income from steam most countries won't raise an eyebrow about this kind of stuff. This is also a really common method for transfering funds out of stolen steam accounts.
There are thousands of overpriced games that only sell because of this.
Yall don't even know what money laundering means anymore 😭
what do you think money laundering means...
i tried that game because it was listed as a horror game, now i have bananas in my inventory that i can’t get rid of.
Lmao
I'm still playing it, because I was one of the first 10k players.
But I started selling the normal bananas roughly 2 weeks ago, and they're almost all sold lol.
Can you not just delete them? Or is that something the game has to explicitly support, like how tf2 and cs do?
@@KyleDavis328 i tried looking for it but there’s no option to delete steam items, you have to either sell them or just live with them
What about turning them into gems?
In 2024 we will have flying cars!
2024: Banana NFT on steam.
Technically we DO have flying drone taxis in some places, but yes.
I am sure they also have a flying car NFT so it is still the future you were promised, the psychic message we sent to the past was just delivered by someone that did not really understand what a NFT was, and can you blame not even the investors understand them. case in point this is not a non fungible token, no smart contract established this banana. you have to trust the steam market place not open source the code of the contract, not that investors ever look in to that.
Turns out that the blockchain wasn't required for this kind of bullshit
@@sinteleon it's called a helicopter
we already have planes, that's the only flying car I'm really okay with. Smaller personal flying cars would be extremely dangerous.
"It's a banana Michael, how much could it cost? 10 dollars?"
There’s always money in the banana stand.
Thank you for this post.
ive never played steam
The reference is from Arrested Development, a great comedy show (8.7/10 on IMDB) for anyone who dislikes being out of the loop like me.
@@DaybreakPT im not in arrested development
Steam: Ok, no more NFT games.
aaladin66: Hold my banana
We went from Non-Fungible tokens to Hyper-Fungible Tokens, HFT's, if you would.
Oooh My!
Spiff: mentions banana
Me, an artist: trauma flashbacks to the banana taped to a wall that was sold as art for $120k USD
Ahhh yes le fine art
I mean, the banana at least is more "art" than Take The Money And Run. You have to actually replace the banana once it rots, make sure it stays stuck to the wall, etc. Take The Money And Run is literally just two blank canvasses.
-I love it.-
I'm an artist
how do you feel about the "artist" that sold nothing as "artwork"?
I hope you have not heard about Bois (or however he is written) "Fettecke" (fat corner).
If not, try to find out about it, I don't want to spoil the fun. It's a decade or even more ago but I still smile whenever I think about it.
Dev gets 1p for every banana sold on the marketplace (10% of sale, at least 1p) - between that and fabricating "rare" items to sell themselves, for how much work went into it, they've probably made a gargantuan amount of money.
Good for them.
i'm learning to become a game developer myself and this video game an incredible idea
What do you mean by 1p?
@@aquaox7453 1 hundredth of a pound
@@aquaox7453 1p means 1 cent in UK
its soo easy for the owner of the game to make some of the BANANA and sell them to the buy order
The player number is most likely inflated by people running thousands of bots
Absolutely. We know now that the Steam Chart numbers simply cannot be trusted. TF2 and Unturned are examples of that. And that kinda sucks, honestly.
I have to imagine it's being used for money laundering as well.
@@NicholasFoote THIS. I know a game that just left "early-access" (for 10 years lol) and I eventually felt like the company was money laundering, and that's why the dev seemed to be trying to un-fun the game.
there is a platformer called banana hell
@@SuperPerry1000 and considering a single computer can run multiple bots I wouldnt be surprised if a single pc is running hundreds of them at a time
NFTs then: Monkee.
NFTs now: Banana.
it's gonna come full circle, just wait
NFTS in 2 years: Monkee with banana
here's hoping that nft bros eventually evolve and invent a way to make fire or the wheel on the blockchain
@@crazysupernovagaming3638The industry isn't ready for that yet.
Joke hasn't changed. Monkey is you.
I like how banana's tags are psychological horror and horror, it suits it so well
About Lass ich sliden. This is german with "sliden" coming from the english language. "Lass ich sliden" means "I'll give it a pass", like when you do your least effort for a task, and you give it to your teacher and the teacher says "ok, I'll let it pass".
Hzm
Hzm
"I'll let it slide" is used aswell if I am not wrong.
In English, "I'll give it a pass" is synonymous with the expression "I'll let it slide"
"least effort for a task"
like the game that was made.
Someone managed to make a Dutch Tulip simulator
Impressive
At least tulip bulbs have some value! They're edible if you're desperate.
Non-Fungable Tulips
@@doubledouble4g379they actually sold non fungable tulips because they were infected by a virus that made them stripped in a very irregular patern so they visibly very distinct from any other tulip
I'm frankly disappointed that the "game" isn't literally called "tulips". If you're going to be this on the nose, go all the way, claim it's performance art and not just market shenanigans.
Tulips are not dutch originate from Constantinople.
this is clearly a smart "monkey business" they aren't even try to hide it.
"But what should probably also establish is that they are potentially a relatively unique kind of German, and I'm not just saying that because they have over a thousand hours on Hearts of Iron IV..."
I choked on my drink
*Also having the achievement 'Somehow He Has Returned'; where you get hitler in Argentina after germany lose the war
He is a beginner, a friend of mine (he and me are also german) has about 3,424 hours playtime and 210/211 Achievements xD And the last Achievement is or was bugged... Also 1.2k hours in Civ and 450 in Victoria, its just insane xD
guy seems mega based. Only seems like the right thing to go support his scam operation by clicking a few bananas if people are gonna make vids to snitch on him lol.
@LeifTunteri-lm6un hmm you must not be very based then if you can't tell ;). Let my man make his money and like Trump if he wants. If he's actually German, then he's basically a unicorn, being like 1 of the only 5 Germans left who aren't raging lefties lol. So he must be protected ;))
straight up clicking "it",and by "it" I mean my banana
Are we talking about the banana in game, your personal banana in your pants, or an actual physical banana? 🤔
@@urazz7739 All of the above, simultaneously.
@@urazz7739 All of 'em, all at once
well, my Peanits
who up clicking they banana rn
You are the only one to make a video about gambling with a banana.
Free Banana is listed as "psychological horror"
Probably to make it more likely to be seen by a wider audience. DDLC set the precident that if you have an innocuous simple looking game, but give it the tag "psychological horror", people will get it out of curiosity to see what secrets this game has to offer. Of course, the only horrors here are the horrors of gambling on NFT's
It's not the developer. Users create the game tags.
@@jc_art_ Exactly this. I downloaded it thinking it was something else too. That shit works.
@@ordinarryalien but they can be removed if reported as inaccurate, which is how 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel somehow LOST it's psychological horror tag, a tag which I contend to be 100% accurate. However it has gained the survival horror tag, which is fine too, I guess.
thats accurate, the whole concept of this games existence is psychological horror
Not saying I need these bananas in my life, but I've been researching how to sell my kidneys for the last 45 minutes, and how to grow more kidneys for the last 44 minutes.
E
Rookie mistake. That's the liver.
Username checks out. You indeed seem to have some issues selling bananas
So, basically an NFT simulator, lol.
"simulator"
Ever heard a word so many times in a short space of time that it feels like that word starts losing its original meaning
Ah yes, gestaltzerfall.
Babanba nabanda bananananana bannananna
It makes you go literally banana
Jamais vu, apparently. Opposite of deja vu. Thanks, Vsauce.
Ourna banana
I just realized that the stock image watermarks are fake 😂.
I love that he pays for them but then makes it look like he didn't.
It wouldn't be the same without them.
At the very start he didn't pay for it and it had genuine watermarks from the places he got them from, but the people from the stock photo pages complained because he was using copyrighted material without their consent. So after that, for some time, we had our usual stock images but without watermarks because Spiff started to buy them. The problem is that during that time most of the comments were "I miss the watermarks".
Because of that Spiff decided to add the watermarks back in, but in order to do that he created his own watermarks so people knew he actually paid for them and there wasn't any misunderstanding.
Thank you for context. Makes it much sweeter
It's even better than that. He _was_ paying for the images, but he was using the watermarked versions anyway because it's fun and quirky. But they told him to stop. (Presumably because it makes it look like it's okay to steal stock photos if you leave the watermarks on.) And, technically, it still counts as copyright infringement because the license grants the use of the _unmarked_ image, not the watermark.
The rest is spot on. He did some videos without watermarks, we complained, and he made his own.
Basically they are making huge money over the transactions made by the users...
Long story short, users being exploited so the game dev gets rich :)
Yes, but it only works because the players genuinely believe they can make money on it, so they share the blame, IMO
@@CantusTropus The users don't share the blame, they are entirely to blame.
I'd watch a series of videos of "The Spiffing Brit Explains Different Types of Scams in Terms of Video Games"
This is one of the best and most well crafted parodies of CS:GO I've ever seen
This man is single-handedly keeping the spirit of the British Empire Alive
I'd say "lass ich sliden" translates more to something like "I'll let it slide".
Which coincidentally was what the developer was hoping Steam would say when he put up his blatant scam game
Yeah, the pronoun should be "mich" for "me" at least when I studied german, at least thats the easiest grammatical mistake there.
I don't know if this term might be something specifically from Lower Saxony where this developer is supposedly from, but as someone from eastern Germany it really makes no sense to me.
It's actually rather simple "I'll let it slide" is a common phrase in english. The developer is just using denglish. "Lass ich Sliden." Same Energy as "I think I spider." and so on.
@@katier9725Im from the east of germany more from saxony and it makes no sense for me too
non-blockchain banana nft farming is not something I thought I would wake up to on Spiff channel, but here we are
Thank you for covering this game. I was looking down the list of free to play on steam and saw Banana and was wondering why in the world someone would play that.
"Lass ich sliden" would more accurately translate to "I'll let it slide" or just "let it slide". Other than that amazing Video as always. :)
One could also mention that it’s not "schleiden" but “sliden".
For those that want to know: It is just the English word "slide" with an additional "n" and thus is pronounced exactly like that.
Not that I would expect Spiff to know this, and he pronounced “Lass ich” near perfect.
Also a side note: the previous username "Abschieben schafft Wohnraum" (Deportation creates living room) is something a far right party in Germany uses for the EU elections.
@@Kanieos Didn't even notice that. Lets hope its just a weird joke and not meant to be taken seriously.
@@Kanieosfette Frauen haltet Abstand hat mich getötet hahaha
Least xenophobic cryptobro. 👍
Como alguien que habla español puedo decir que tratar de entender este video me genero un aneurisma, thanks The Spiffing Brit
😂😂😂
i love how the steam marketplace turned from a place to acquire skins and such to a literal stock market
Yes its funny lol
If you have illegitimate income, get a dev with no scruples to make a game like this, have a small team of people buying the items direct from Steam using the illegitimate funds, resell those items back on the market, use those funds to buy more items from Steam directly to maximize return. Developer pays the now legitimate funds back to original funder as extortionate rent on a building they're not using (minus their cut). Now you know how to money launder on Steam!
i mean i dont wanna be that guy but you cant launder any real money through a game like this.. so you buy $150000 worth of steam gift cards. then you get audited and go to jail. but lets say you somehow turn your cash into steam credit without alarmbells. you buy $150000 of bananas then you try to sell them. oh wait there isnt 150000 in this banana economy so your just stuck with your bananas. but what if you only wanted to launder say $20k you ask? well you dont. you dont need to launder 20k just spend it. idk why everyone keeps saying this is for money laundering. it isnt. it would be one of the worst possible attempts at money laundering i have ever heard of.
@@mightymcpheeyeah add onto that its a diminishing return. A amall percentage is always cut out of market places. Even steam
@@mightymcphee it's bad but I have definitely seen worse ways from RUclips comments. People here loves to pretend they know something.
Weren't they already doing just that but with games themselves
Or you can just buy some monero in a few minutes and be done with that
I like how he stopped at exactly 1337
I was very surprised when I saw this game on the top steam charts. Now this makes way more sense.
for me it was a friend of mine that mentioned the game and how you could get the bananas for free and make money off of it... My emidiate response was "well who the hell is gonna buy a useless banana png ?" and "well sure even if you make money off of it, does the amount of money you made justify the expense in energy, etc ?"
Needless to say my friend saw my points and agreed with me.. tho think he still kept running the game on the background or smth 😅
Greater fool theory is driving everyone bananas.
Literally paused the video and had to replay the word. I was shook. If I hadn’t been a subscriber for years I would have been one again on this day. My boy got real. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
2:04 "sliden" is the english word "slide" with the German ending that makes it a verb. "Lass ich sliden" is Denglisch for "I let it slide".
This is correct ^ ^ ^
@@R4MMU5
Well, I assume it to be because I lived the first almost 17 years of my life in Germany, until about two years ago. So German is my native language and I have heard a bunch of Denglisch, like e.g. "Grüß' mal Deine Family!" and other ear cancer-inducing stuff.
Was about to write this vomment myself but you did the first don't know how he got the translation, but i find it kinda funny that he tries to pronounce "sliden" in a germna way when its literally used as an english word with the english pronounciation just different ending
I was gonna comment about this too, but luckily checked the comments first to see if someone already mentioned it!
Spiff's German pronunciation is so good but him pronouncing sliden as a German word made me cringe every time
Man you are going to be put on another watch list
Never enough watchlists to be put on. Become national threat.
Every watchlist he's on is at least a few guaranteed views - such profound hustle on Spiff's part.
What's wrong with being out on the watchlist? I want a free watch
Did we not learn from NFTs😭😭
The more things change, the more they stay the same
What I liked the most is that Factorio options icon.
Now that's a exploit on how to develop a game!
I adore that horror and psychological horror are currently the most popular tags on Steam for bananas.
Report, it's a bot
This is kind of waht I thought when NFTs started coming out of the woods. I am like "we already have this, it's on the Steam marketplace and we didn't need blockchain for it either" lmao.
Once again humanity drops down to the bar and then digs right under it
Yeah, probably not humanity. Most of the activity must be bots trying to diversify into high-risk assets. Way too much centralization around an obviously lousy game to be human-driven.
@@genxer1824 With the current state of AI most of those bots are setup and operated by humans. We're quite far out from AI being able to dynamically design new bots to get around detection.
@@genxer1824 who runs those bots, Oleg? Have a little think.
There is zero difference between the creator of this game and the average winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics.
While watching your video: got banana hyped, installed it, played it, got 100% achievements, uninstalled it, liked the video. Now let's watch the rest 12 minutes of it :)
All the devs would need to do to get more people buying banannas is an achievement for having every type of bannanas, so hoarders/collectors try to buy every bananna to show off to their friends
Congratulations Spiff on being likely the 3rd highest profit attainer from the Banana Game, just behind the developer and Steam.
Embrace Monke get bananas
"Embrace Monkey has bananas" is the translation to English 🤣
Apparently this makes so little sense that it wants to translate "Embrace Monke get bananas" to "Embrace Monke get bananas" in english. Brainrot detection is a new feature, who knew. Not perfected yet though
someone: So how did you get your millions of dollar's.
me: B A N A N A S
"ha, ha, stupid banana game," clicks on tulip.
Steam HQ be panicking right now
steam sees it and leaves it they profit off it, otherwise the porn and achievement games not even for gaming would have been banned far before AI banned
As the other person said. They don't care. In fact, they profit from developers scamming users. You think if they don't care for cheaters in TF2, they will care for such minor things as people getting scammed? You're naive.
Oh yeah the servers are getting hammered right now. I'm just trying to buy banana
Why would they? They literally make money from this. It costs them absolutely nothing and they get a cut from every payment players make for this game.
@@jakubs.5966 But how is this game a scam? You get free bananas from it and no one forces you to buy them. It is just for making a collection. I mean you get exactly what you pay fo :D.
The only reason for all this nonsense exists on steam are for people who into cosmetics and like to customize their Steam profile pages.
You can make any game that didn't have any content or gameplay on them and just make some side content that can be showcased on the steam profiles. Like an achievement icon, some wallpaper or anything that the steam profile can showcase.
People will buy them for that reason alone.
The rules and reason of this world is simple, if people want "a thing" that "thing" becomes valuable, and other people can sell that "thing" to make other thing. This is the purest reason people make some "thing".
are most likely
Umm sols right? Blox fruits ?
I’m an economist, and I find this certifiably insane.
...I don't want to live on this planet any more.
I appreciate that you end this video with a shoutout to a fantastically _good_ free game.
Did anyone else think for the first 10 mins or so, think this was The Spiffing Brit who had made this game?
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I thought that it was some kind of prank until I went to steamdb and saw that "banana" had almost twice the current players amount than it was shown on the video, where the only thing above banana is cs go and Dota 2
So basically it is an NFT banana on steam. That's awesome and just what was needed.
I hope this is sarcastic
@@jc_art_ who doesn’t love NFT scams? 😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂
Now banana is #2 behind CS2. Wow.
#1
You might get 1 item after 300 hours of idling, which may sell for 1 dollars, while you spend 5 to 10 dollars in electricity
Not if you live in student dorms where you don't pay for electricity!
Technically you get a regular banana every 3 hours, and a rare every 18. It is just random if you get a banana that is worth more than 3 cents
@@Aleksandr_Tararin Except you do pay for that electricity..
@@Borcheltski Are they really worth 3 cents when you need to be lucky to sell them ?
@@bilateralrope8643 I've sold 50 so far, and counting... they sell
I love how steam currently says popular tags for banana are horror and phycological horror.
capitalism *is* horrifying
Bro reinvented NFT
I love how at 2:26 he pronounces the 2 German words correctly, but than miss pronounces the English word that that is literally pronounced the english way.
Which word?
@@edyknight9218Sliden.
@@chrismanuel9768 it seems to be middle english so unless Spiffling has a time machine or some rejunvenation elixir I think we can forgive him
@@grilledflatbread4692 No, it's "denglisch (deutsch englisch)", english words used with german grammar. You would say "slide" like in english and then add -n, which makes the word work with german grammar. Also he got the translation wrong, it would translate to "I'll let it slide", not "Let me slide".
Amusingly, the way Spiff pronounces Sliden is how you would pronounce it if it was indeed a German word.
Gotta say, the last thing I expected today is seeing an NFT-like money making scheme with a developer coming from my rather small home city.
I thought Osnabrück was quite large. Perhaps I'm confused but don't you guys have your own Uni and airport?
Before the global flu with my partner we were considering moving to germany and got an offer as a welder and even told me I could finish my engineering degree there, but perhaps I'm confused.
We had issues to find rent without first getting the job and we were hesitant on moving abroad without securing a life project first but it seemed a nice place to live (a bit colder than here tho)
I love how I saw the Banana game leading steam charts and didn't even have to search it up, I just searched Spiffing Brit and sure enough, banana chaos ensues lol
Not only do we get a cracking video but a cheeky shout out for OpenTTD as well. Fantastic!
Steam is as perfectly balanced as a good old Yorkshire tea with no exploits
Prefectly
The youtube shorts guy
the milquetoast comments guy
Yorkshire Tea has a Spiffing Brit Exploit. 😂
'Play stupid games, win stupid prizes' has never been a more appropriate expression 🤣
Banana went up to #4 since you released this video. The developer should slip you some of that peel.
Just couse im a nitpicker.
Sliden is not german. its slide, but morphed. Lots of verbs in german ends with -en. We call that denglisch. (deutsch + englisch).
Denglisch 🤣🤣🤣🤣👌👌
" who promises to provide more then anyother game developer ever has...bonus trees"
The spiffing brit 2024
You don't have to leave the game running, you just have to open the game and click once at the intervals described. No need to rack up an expensive electricity bill, just do it when you're already on your computer.
I love when spiff does this type of videos i still remember the steam summer sale XP glitch my account is level 44 bc of that
This is the game equivalent of modern art, pushing over a tub of paint while an audience of sheep clap.
Guys we need the spiffing Brit to play vampire survivors, it’s a game LITERALLY MADE to be broken, In perfectly British style as well.
ehhh, it's kinda played out. And if it's meant to be broken, it's not really breaking, it's just normal.
What about ROUNDS? Its game breaking, Competitively XD. Also a hyper active modding community for shits and giggles @godlyvex5543
@@TheAnimeEncyclopedia It's an alright game. I played it when it first came out. But the netcode is really sub-par and takes away from the game a lot. The upgrades are also somewhat uninspired, many of them are just stat boosts. Some of them are really fun upgrades, but there really needs to be more, and for some reason the devs just never updated the game. The mods I played have been pretty poorly designed, but I imagine things have gotten better over time.
@@godlyvex5543netcode? On a single player game? Wut
Can we just appreciate that Spiff hit exactly the number 1337 at 10:03?
..... What is significant about 1337?
@@h0ly208 bruh
@@h0ly208blud doesn't know
You can set up some auto-clickers to output a fixed number of clicks. Very leet
@@h0ly208 1337 is leetspesk for, well, leet
7:50 Am i the only one that finds it funny when Spiff curses cause he never does this?
Dude waited 4 minutes and 30 seconds to show gameplay.
True RUclipsr
"Gameplay"
basically, this is a more stramlined version of TF2...
Also, I think that a non-negligible part of the trade volume is money laundering...
cant believe i just watched a British man talk about a banana game for 17 minutes.... life is good
Honestly BANANA is an homage to the times when Germany still had a massive wall in its middle.
In East-Germany, getting bananas was so rare, that there were extremely long queues, just to get some bananas, and you didn't get many either.
So yeah, banana is a canon event.
7:51 I think that was the most pure despair at the futility of man I have ever heard.
this dev is just a man taking spiffing brit's advice on breaking things to get infinite money
It's not madness: it's totally bananas! 🤣🤣🤣
Love how "Sliden" is a techically a english word, but germanized, so its pronounced just like you would in english "Slide-en" that title more accurately means "i'll let it slide"
This unintentionally the most educational NFT video to date
the tulip speculation returns
Oh god it’s the return of the Cucumber all over again
I find it hilarious that the images are those of bananas and that their sole purpose is money because the first thing that came to my mind is banana republics and it immediately made me chuckle. 😂
i feel like this banana nft exploit is more like exploiting the users time
The ultimate bitcoin clicker farm. Genius
No banana make you go insane!
@@Henrique-wx8bv Tonight we dance around the flame!
1:22 So 16.7% of people downloaded and opened this game, then closed it and never played it again before clicking the banana even once? It's such a simple task, why is the percentage so high?