Banana - Aka Steam's very own money laundering sheme

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Banana is a game that exploits Steam's algorithm to reward users with drops.

Will I get banned if I play this/sell the drops?
 
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i guess if they banned every user who did this, they would loose a good chunk of their customers so probably not.
 
I'll ask the blatant question. What's stopping Valve from removing the game or banning it?
Then again, copycats will be made, so it probably force them to do steam drops differently as a long term solution.
 
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herefortheactualthreads said:
idle game drops items/cards with pictures of banana, people get free money and shit, people are scared that this will kill the steam market for god knows why reasons.
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How do you get free money if people have to buy the items in question? Or am I missing something here... I thought the Steam market only worked so much as if somebody actually buys thing.
 
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Don't support their scam and don't waste your time. It's just rebranded NFT trash without the blockchain and crypto. You might as well just boot up TF2/CS2/whatever other game with drops and go on idle servers, at least there you know that everybody has the same drop rates without devs artifically creating scarcity to profit on their alts. Also you know, the items have actual use.
 
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BibiLivesMatter said:
I'll ask the blatant question. What's stopping Valve from removing the game or banning it?
Then again, copycats will be made, so it probably force them to do steam drops differently as a long term solution.
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A younger Valve might of cared, but this is current Valve. They get at least a penny for every single one of these Banana's sold, and MILLIONS are moved a day. They're not shooting themselves in the foot on this one, most likely.

With how lax they tend to be about damn near everything these days, I don't see them actually bothering to do anything about them anytime soon (they make them a bunch of money after all), or they get that it's probably a fad and will die off on its own in a years time. While these are the "in vouge" drop games right now, there's still several games on the market that do similar things, just far less blatantly.
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I'm more afraid it's a virus/coin miner or something. Just looks sus, I refuse to believe there's a "free lunch" in the Steam items here.
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It's a basic Unity project, so you can decompile it and check its code. I know for sure there's nothing suspicious in Banana, but there's like 20 of these out there (Banana, Egg, Cucumber, Cats, ect), so some very possibly could be.

Raw Onion Enjoyer said:
Don't support their scam and don't waste your time. It's just rebranded NFT trash without the blockchain and crypto. You might as well just boot up TF2/CS2/whatever other game with drops and go on idle servers, at least there you know that everybody has the same drop rates without devs artifically creating scarcity to profit on their alts. Also you know, the items have actual use.
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It's free and you can't pull steam funds back into real cash without some 3rd party black market shit, that's a big difference from NFT's. Most of these idle in the background, use no resources, and aren't doing anything suspicious. I'm not really seeing any of these being marketed in a "make money NOW" kind of way that NFT's are, and it takes all of 30 seconds to get your first drop and figure out these items do absolutely nothing. In my eyes it's more of a dumb little niche thing for dorks like me who just want a bunch of cats or fruit in their inventory because even speculatively, there's no money to be made here for anyone but the devs and Steam.

Don't get me wrong, it's still a "scam" in a sense, but I definitely would not put it at the same level of NFT's. It's very obvious from the jump that these have no purpose beyond being "stickers" in your inventory. If retards want to spend cash on the "rare" ones, it's hard for me to feel any kind of sympathy for them because anyone with two brain-cells to rub together should understand it's little more than a dumb little collectathon.
 
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SiccDicc said:
How do you get free money if people have to buy the items in question? Or am I missing something here... I thought the Steam market only worked so much as if somebody actually buys thing.
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yeah but you get the items for free, which you put into the market so ppl can buy it.
 
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