• muhyb@programming.dev
    18·
    5 months ago

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

    • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml
      11·
      5 months ago

      It’s a different scheme. While the developers can print as many items as they want if they want to, the prices are entirely made out by the community. So they just manipulate the odds to make some items rarer. If they print the same items, the price will fall right off.

      However why the game has this much players is that its really easy to bot.

      • muhyb@programming.dev
        2·
        5 months ago

        I see, it does not match all the properties of Ponzi scheme. But those people are idiots. And Valve really should intervene this since similar titles already popped up. Basically there is no end to that.

        I wish GOG had local prices like Steam.

  • RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    193·
    5 months ago

    I still can’t comprehend how some nft like game made by some German right wing extremist became the second most played game on steam

    • onlooker@lemmy.ml
      2·
      5 months ago

      made by some German right wing extremist

      News to me. Do you have any articles on this? Searching for “banana right wing” gives me a bunch of articles about Chiquita funding a paramilitary group.

      • RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        10·
        5 months ago

        One of the devs had his steam name set to “Abschieben schafft Wohnraum” which translates to “Deportation creates living space”. He has now hidden previous names and claimed that this was to troll, but he still has Trump and Putin as his background so I don’t think that I am going to believe that.

  • I'm back on my BS 🤪@lemmy.autism.placeEnglish
    5·
    5 months ago

    The creator must be shitting his pants with the publicity this gane is getting. Someone that makes a game like that is surely trying to exploit opportunities. They have to be doing something illegal, whether that be illegal business practices or avoiding taxes.